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).

The tense atmosphere would explode that summer in New York City, in the worst riots in American history. The May 1, 1863 New York Tribune summed up many Northerners' feelings about African ...

A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city becomes a battleground for Irish immigrants and the African American communities, who have been manipulated by ...

Black Americans are calling out double standards in how police use force to quell peaceful protests but appeared to hesitate when facing insurrection by a largely white pro-Trump mob. Video by ...

representing half of the destruction in the citywide riots. Mr. Lee described the complex roots of the tensions between Korean and African American residents. “To Korean newcomers,” he wrote ...

Gordon Parks / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division It was June 1943 when the riots broke out ... zoot suit—the term came out of African-American slang—but it was actually ...