The Watts Rebellion, as it is also known, was fueled by a traffic stop involving two Black brothers and a white California Highway Patrol officer. The traffic stop, and resulting brutality ...

The 1965 short film gives a glimpse into one of L.A.'s most notorious neighborhoods before it was torn apart by rioting Created by three white UCLA students in 1965—before the riots broke out ...

Half a century before the riots in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, Md., America saw in Los Angeles’s Watts neighborhood the first of the 1960s’ horrifying urban riots. The Berkeley students ...

Dr. Anthony Culpepper, president of Los Angeles Southwest College, is a key advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion and ...

In the five years since Antonio Mays Jr.’s death, there have been no arrests, no charges filed, no answers. His father is now ...

living in Watts, the rather appalling number of over 500 criminals out on parole and it would be a relief to tie up this discussion with the clincher that they started and lead the riots.

he won two Golden Mike Awards for a report on the 25th Anniversary of the 1965 Watts Riots and a report on the 1992 L.A. Riots. He also was awarded three first- place California Associated Press ...

As Jones notes in the documentary, SOUL was inspired by the flames that erupted during the Watts Riots in August 1965. She was 21, a mother of five and married to aspiring news reporter and radio ...

He was once a student at the college, which was established in response to the Watts Rebellion’s educational needs in the African American community. Dr. Culpepper’s educational journey ...