Watts’ elders reflect on riots’ legacy: Too much change or not enough? Woodrow Reed, 87, who moved to Watts in 1943, says: “Are our grandchildren doing better? I don’t think so.” ...

It all started with a traffic stop. On Aug. 11, 1965, California Highway Patrol Officer Lee Minikus responded to a report of a reckless driver in the Watts section of Los Angeles. Shortly after 7 ...

50 years on, a look back at the Watts riots 06:53. LOS ANGELES-- It began with a routine traffic stop, blossomed into a protest with the help of a rumor and escalated into the deadliest and most ...

Forty years ago, the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts erupted in pent-up racial frustration. The Watts Riots: A Look Back, and What's Next August 11, 2005 12:00 AM ET ...

Tune in to NBC4 Southern California on Tuesday, August 11 at 7 p.m. for an hour-long special, “50 Watts,” which takes an in-depth look at one of the most significant times in Southern ...

Citizens have every right to question federal leaders. If the administration were trying to calm down the situation, then ...

Fifty years ago, Marquette Frye — a 21-year- old black man — was pulled over for drunken driving by a white California Highway Patrol officer near 116th Street and Avalon Boulevard in South ...

Summer is to riots as autumn is to financial meltdowns. On this day in 1965, the Watts section of Los Angeles convulsed with one of most damaging riots in American history.

LOS ANGELES — EDITOR’S NOTE: On Aug. 11, 1965, an uprising began in Los Angeles after the drunken driving arrest of a young Black man by a white California Highway Patrol offi… ...

The embers of Watts had cooled as Ronald Reagan raced toward his first election as California’s governor, a year after riots scarred southern Los Angeles. Yet Watts remained an ominous political ...

Los Angeles residents and experts say the National Guard's presence in Los Angeles in response to immigration protests is reminiscent of a long-standing dynamic in the state and around the country.