What did we learn from the race riots in Detroit and around the nation in 1967?

(THE CONVERSATION) When most people see the movie “ Detroit ,” it’ll likely be their first encounter with the events of July ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Almost exactly 50 years ago, when TIME looked for one experience with which to summon the mood of the riots that swept Detroit in ...

Fifty years have passed since the summer of 1967, which saw urban riots in many large cities, including New York, Newark, N.J., and Detroit. It is Detroit's violence, however, that is the subject of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The private park where the Algiers Motel in Detroit once stood now has a Michigan historical marker, which will be introduced to ...

Detroit was not a pleasant place to be during the last week of July in 1967. For four days, citizens of Detroit rioted, a civil unrest that infamously became known as the 12 street riot. The 1967 ...

During the summer of 1967, rebellions broke out in several U.S. cities, including Buffalo and Newark. But the largest of them--known as the Great Rebellion--happened in the heart of American ...

The unrest in the Motor City a half-century ago this summer left 43 dead. It was one of the most devastating episodes of civil conflict in the... It was after 3 a.m. on a Sunday: July 23, 1967. A ...

A Michigan State policeman searches a youth on Detroit's 12th Street, July 24, 1967, where looting was still in progress after yesterday's rioting. His companions lean against the wall waiting their ...

In 1984, when I was starting my journalism career, I met writer, teacher and political activist Amiri Baraka in a bookstore on Chicago’s south side. He was signing his 500-page autobiography. “How,” I ...

Detroit is the most gut-wrenching movie I have ever seen. Fifty years ago, in 1967, San Franciscans here in our City by the Bay were being beseeched to wear flowers in their hair and bask in the glow ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. When most people see the movie Detroit, it'll likely be their first encounter with the events of July 1967, when a ...