The Watts Riots began on Aug. 11, 1965 and ended on Aug. 16, 1965 — and that day Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown declared the ...

What started as a routine traffic stop quickly escalated into violence and six days of civil unrest known as the Watts Riots ...

Nearby, uniformed Los Angeles Police Department officers mingled with residents, answered questions and chatted with young ...

Leaders and researchers look back at Watts since the 1965 riots and answer the question: Is it better now than back then?

Charles Parks, a retired commander for the Long Beach Police Department, has plenty of stories to tell about his 33-year ...

Sixty years after the Watts Riots (sometimes referred to as Watts Uprising or Watts Rebellion), young people like Hernandez ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Watts Riots. To look back at the historic civil unrest, CBS2's Pat Harvey talked to a leader, who not only survived the chaos, but decided to stay and ...

The Watts riots broke out Aug. 11, 1965, and raged for most of a week. When the smoke cleared, 34 people were dead, more than a 1,000 were injured and some 600 buildings were damaged.

Today, Watts’ elders wonder if things have changed too much. Factories goaded by the riots into hiring blacks eventually shut down or moved out, making it hard for high school grads to find a ...

The play opens this Friday August 14 at the Mafundi Theatre in Watts at one of the exact intersections where the riots took place 50 years ago. "It's so scary that it happened right here where we are.

Watts had not been the first race riot of the civil rights era. In the summer of 1964, black people lashed out in seven northeastern cities, leaving five people dead.

The Watts Riots offer lessons for today’s Civil Rights street protests against the police murder of black people—and it’s not just that sometimes you have to take it to the streets.