Kwanzaa is a holiday that aims to celebrate African Americans, African culture, and the strength of our community through shared values. In 1966, Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of ...

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 ...

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.

August 9 marked the one-year anniversary of the Ferguson riots and today ... is a reminder that Watts became so disproportionately defined by what happened in August in ‘65.