In some ways, what I see there now is worse than before 1965. Back then, nearly all residents had shelter. Today, as in other ...

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

The 60th anniversary of a shocking uprising in Los Angeles, which foretold similar unrest in cities throughout the 1960s and ...

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

With the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Watts Riots upon us, the annual National Night Out in Watts carried special weight.

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

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

Elvin Bell of Fresno, California was a new city council member when he got summoned as a National Guard member to help calm the Watts Riots in Los Angeles.

The Watts riots enveloped a 50-square-mile area of southcentral Los Angeles. The rioting escalated into looting, physical violence and setting fires to hundreds of buildings.