The Watts Riots began on Aug. 11, 1965 and ended on Aug. 16, 1965 — and that day Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown declared the riots were over. Here is a sampling of moments about the Watts Riots, or what ...

Lindsey Hernandez grew up in Imperial Courts, one of Watts’ largest public housing complexes. Some nights, the 17-year-old woke up to the sound of gunfire, sometimes to news that someone had died. But ...

In '65 Watts Coverage, Race Complexities Eluded L.A. Times"Almost all of them are dead now," the Los Angeles Times' Doug Smith began his story Wednesday evaluating his paper's coverage of the Watts ...

Fifty years after the mayhem subsided, residents of Watts still remember dodging bullets and watching their community in chaos during the 1965 riots that left an area of Los Angeles in shambles. The ...

All week, we’ve been sharing stories about the 50th anniversary of the Watts riots. In the years after 1965, what happened in Watts seeped into pop culture. Today we look at how the riots have been ...

Sixty years ago, a young Black man from South Los Angeles was pulled over by a white California Highway Patrol officer after another motorist reported the man driving recklessly. What started as a ...