Forty years ago this week, Newark, N.J., erupted into violence. Newark was one of several cities across the country where riots broke out in the late 1960s. Years of poverty and discrimination had ...

When the Newark riots ended in July 1967, Martin Bressler heard his Maplewood neighbors talk of blocking off the roads into the state's largest city. Panicky white homeowners spoke of selling their ...

Urban Black communities, already reeling from systemic dispossession, began to experience spirals of crime, civil unrest, and ...

I was reluctant to write this post for fear that it would be met with consternation, be misinterpreted, or be twisted into something it was not meant to be. I would like this post to be historical, ...

In 1967, Newark erupted in gunfire, looting, and arson, killing 23 people and injuring 700. But 40 years later, the New York Times still is not certain that this event should properly be called a ...