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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

A federal jury this week convicted a man accused of being a member of a white supremacist group on rioting charges ... was convicted on Tuesday of conspiracy to violate the anti-riot act and violating ...

Dinkins was known for — and dogged by — his response to the 1991 riots in the Black and Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights (JTA) — David Dinkins, the first Black mayor of New ...