The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city ...

Most of the violence -- drive-by shootings, beatings, and arson -- targeted the African American community. The riots raged for nearly a week, leaving nine whites and hundreds of African Americans ...

The riots hastened such trends, according to Thirman Milner, who was Hartford’s first African- American mayor, serving from 1981 to 1987 (and the first popularly elected in New England).

Even today, in a society that tries hard to make nice, Blacks are viewed as gangsters who do crimes and drugs more than the ...

As the riot progressed, Mexican American boys moved ... the Dust Bowl of the drought-plagued Southern Plains, and African Americans seeking more opportunity than they'd found in the South.

African Americans tragically constitute approximately half of all murder victims and regularly suffer the brunt of damage resulting from riots. Their lives matter. The fair-weather protesters ...