The equivocating response to the riots by Dewey and the grand jury showed, to anyone who doubted it, the political necessity of such purges. If the civil rights movement had maintained its ties to ...

The Hough Riot, which ended in a downpour rainstorm, was part of a national pattern of civil rights riots. The neighborhood ...

Paul Robeson and the Peekskill Riots in 1949 will be remembered this week at events in Cortlandt Manor and Peekskill.

The French government has sent a special anti-riot police unit that’s been banned for 65 years to the French Caribbean island ...

In the months after the riots, Walz urged sweeping changes. He called lawmakers back into a special session that July. They ...

After President Biden signed a proclamation to designate the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument, civil rights leaders spoke to reporters in the White House driveway. After President ...

Biden was joined in the Oval Office by lawmakers as well as civil rights and community leaders as he signed the proclamation ...

Then came what are remembered as the Peekskill riots. Two months before ... singing a medley of songs ranging from Spanish Civil War melodies to civil rights anthems. He performed the last ...

An interview with Wendy Talio of the Living Artist Society, which has sponsored a pair of events remembering the 1949 ...

When We Rise, which aired its final episode in 2017, is available to stream on Hulu, where you can check out the show's one ...

In the aftermath of the riots, politicians are seeking to introduce stricter curbs on civil rights, with online social media posts treated the same as criminal offences committed on the streets and ...