But by the late 1980s, stagnant economic conditions and gang warfare were pushing many African Americans out of Los Angeles and back to Texas, Louisiana and Atlanta, or to scattered exurbs such as ...

Community leaders and the African American Council of Christian Clergy came together Friday to call out Governor Ron DeSantis on the selective enforcement of HB1, an anti-riot law that enhances ...

The riots of the first half of the 20 th century follow the pattern of the Draft Riot in which whites (including many policemen) attacked African Americans. These riots peaked between 1917 to 1921 ...

Sparked by frustrations about police brutality and discrimination after the arrest of an African-American man, the riots (yes, they were riots) claimed 34 lives, more than 1,000 injuries, and $40 ...

During the 1863 New York City draft riots, white people ran amok, killing black Americans and destroying the African-American community’s churches, orphanages, businesses and schools.

The deadly riot on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., laid bare — yet again — the everyday reality of African Americans and people of color: Police use more aggressive tactics against them than ...

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking a shortened prison sentence of just one day for an ex-police officer ...

The New Orleans Race Riot (also known as the Robert Charles Riot) erupts on July 23 and lasts four days. Twelve African Americans and seven Whites are killed. 1907 ...

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.

By 2010, African-Americans accounted for 67 percent. As has been pointed out repeatedly by protesters, Ferguson’s power structure has not changed to reflect that rapid change, Collins said.

A number of additional U.S. Jewish organizations weighed in on Tel Aviv anti-African migrant riots. Among those condemning the last week’s riots during a protest against the large numbers of ...

The riots of the ’60s, from Watts to Washington, D.C., ... as a moderate Democrat with a law-and-order past who won his party’s nomination with strong African-American support, ...