In 1966, the Dead were not political, at least not in the sense in which we are accustomed to considering politics. But these were inherently political days in California. Culture and politics swirled ...

Last Friday (08-08-25), a vibrant atmosphere filled Verbum Dei High School in Watts, CA, as the Big3 organization launched the Young3 Basketball program. This exciting event was more than just a ...

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

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

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

Just as police brutality sparked the Watts riots, masked abductions by ICE agents and militarized raids sparked the recent ones in LA.

More than 500 were arrested. Watts riots, 1965 Thousands of Black people moved to Los Angeles during World War II, often to work in aerospace and other manufacturing jobs.

A state-mandated investigation after the riots found that the conflict was driven, in part, by long-standing grievances in Watts about high unemployment rates, substandard housing and inadequate ...

By the mid-1960s, race relations in the area were strained, as they were in the rest of the nation. A state-mandated investigation after the riots found that the conflict was driven, in part, by ...

President Donald Trump's decision to deploy National Guard troops to quell immigration protests in Los Angeles, bypassing California Governor Gavin Newsom in the process, is irregular, but not ...