The scale of the violence at Watts bears no relation ... that the federal government had warned California to expect trouble from the Negros in the Los Angeles suburbs. Just about the safest ...

In 1966, Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at California State ... August 1965 fueled a six-long riot in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Watts Rebellion ...

America saw in Los Angeles’s Watts neighborhood the first of the 1960s’ horrifying urban riots. The Berkeley ... Berkeley and Watts were followed in California by the election of Governor ...

Los Angeles County authorities want the owners of a metal recycling company, accused of causing an explosion next to a public high school in Watts ... stories in Southern California delivered ...

Highway 105 in Watts, a dozen miles south of downtown Los Angeles ... The altercation escalated into a riot. For the next six days the LAPD, the California Highway Patrol, and the National ...

Grammy Award-winning rapper Jay Rock was arrested in Watts on Thursday ... Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter.

The Watts riots in 1965 damaged or destroyed more than ... executive director of the Los Angeles consumer group. Lara's spokesperson, Michael Soller, said he could not comment on whether the ...