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

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

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

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. That doesn't excuse violence, but it's not an unexpected end ...

That’s the same year as the “Watts Rebellion” or “Watts Riots.” (The differing titles are a testament to the ongoing culture-war battle over the use of language.) ...

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 ...