The curious phenomenon which has emerged from the Ferguson riots is that in this process the white power structure stays behind as the community turns black. The result is a white police force in ...

In September 1917, for instance, black soldiers clashed with white civilians in Houston, Texas, and in 1919, during a prolonged period of civil unrest now known as the "Red Summer," 26 race riots ...

"Do you know what started the race riot?" the question can be heard in archival audio of oral history recordings. "I think it was about a Black man and a white woman, I guess." On June 15 ...

Eight years later, a Black soldier was shot by a white police officer, inciting another riot. In 1943, a Black woman named Marjorie Polite was being arrested for disorderly conduct when a Black ...

After a five-day trial, Robert Boman, 31, was convicted on Tuesday of conspiracy to violate the anti-riot act and violating ...

To listen to some of the protesters, the Milwaukee shooting was the excuse for the riot, not the reason ... reforming the way cops interact with the black community that he’s profiled on ...

Believing Gaines was pregnant, the crowd grew angrier at the all too familiar scene in front of them –– Black people being brutalized by white police officers. By 7:45 p.m. the riots began as ...

In 1866, a quarrel between whites and black ex-soldiers erupted into a full-fledged riot in Memphis, Tennessee. White policemen assisted the mobs in their violent rampage through the black ...