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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.
Tear gas was fired at protesters in Los Angeles on Sunday when some demonstrators moved close to National Guard troops and shouted insults at them, hours after President Donald ...
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.
Noah Purifoy, the mastermind behind this outdoor oddity, was no ordinary artist. Born in Alabama in 1917, Purifoy lived a life as colorful and varied as his artworks. But it wasn’t until the Watts ...
When the Watts neighborhood erupted in riots in 1965 after a Black man there was brutalized by the police, Mr. Wasser captured the agony of a city at war with itself.
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 ...