Founded in 1965, the Precinct Reporter has been granted a multitude of awards throughout its history for being a reliable source of information and resources for the community. Art Townsend originally ...

There were deadly protests in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1965 in response to pent-up anger over an abusive ... The Hearst Foundations has awarded the Seattle Art Museum with a grant.

National Guard troops began arriving in Los Angeles early Sunday on orders from President Donald Trump in response to clashes in recent days between federal immigration authorities and protesters ...

Chief William H. Parker was a crusty law-enforcement fundamentalist who spent 16 years building the Los Angeles Police Department into one of the best known, best paid and least corrupt in the ...

Mr. Davis co-founded a Los Angeles gallery that became a hub of social activism and later became a guiding force for Maryland’s Gateway Arts District.

Watts is famous – notorious – for the riots of 1965. Incited by the racism of the Los Angeles Police Department. The riots, also known as the Watts Rebellion, led to 34 deaths and more than ...

The gap between the two black Americas was brutally underscored in August, 1965, when at the height of the Watts riots, Martin Luther King Jr. came to Watts. He was jeered by a few blacks when he ...

Black businesses are rich in history. From newspapers to banks to restaurants and more, Black-owned businesses are an ...

A feeling of chaos surfaced again from my memory — the memory of being a kid and what erupted in the 1965 Watts riot. All that came back during the 1992 L.A. Riots. Oh, my error, The Los Angeles ...