The date was July 4, 1910, the location was Reno, Nevada, and the event scheduled to take place was billed as the “Fight of ...

Democratic socialist New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim immigrant, identified as both Asian and ...

The Harlem riot of 1935 has been called “the first modern race riot” not because it was African-Americans rising up against the racist power structure within their city, but because it was ...

The African American identity is not a checkbox of convenience. It’s a history, a struggle, and a lived experience. For ...

Just as police brutality sparked the Watts riots, masked abductions by ICE agents and militarized raids sparked the recent ones in LA. That doesn’t excuse violence, but it’s not an unexpected end ...

This riot happened between the evening of May 31 and early morning of June 1, 2020. ... "When I was growing up, 5th St. was a big corridor for African American businesses, ...

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

The HOUGH RIOTS, 18-24 July 1966, were a spontaneous outbreak of civil disorder which encompassed a spectrum ranging from angry protest to vandalism, looting, and arson.A number of observers believed ...

The riots of 1964 tore off Rochester's complacency, but at a cost. ... "Young African-Americans in the North were much less willing to listen to the message of Dr. King.

The riots caused more than $400,000 in property damage and prompted 6,000 African Americans—more than half of East St. Louis’s African American population—to flee the city.

Discover the untold stories of African American bravery in WWII, ... Anti-Black riots erupted across the country, and the Ku Klux Klan’s membership swelled to over three million.

The Commissioner of Education's African American History Task Force is directed to examine ways in which the history of the 1920 Ocoee Election Day Riots will be included in instruction on African ...