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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daniel Moynihan submitted his report, “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,” in March of 1965, and five months later, on Aug. 11, 1965, the Watts riots broke out. In 1965 ...

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 ...

But while violence broke out in various parts of the city, there were no violent protests in Watts, the neighborhood in South Los Angeles that has been the site of notorious race riots. That dynamic ...

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 ...

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 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 ...