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This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im erica pitzi. Police in ferguson, missouri will be out on the streets early this morning, trying to maintain calm after a second tense night there. Officers arrested nearly two dozen people during protests marking one year since the death of Michael Brown. At least one officer was seen using pepper spray on the crowd. Earlier monday, protestors shut down interstate 70 during the afternoon rush hour. St. Louis county is now under a state of eme...

George w. Bush. A big difference between terrorists and teenage daughters is that on occasion you can successfully negotiate with terrorists. So i wish my daughters listened to me a little bit more. Congressman John Radcliff from texas, 4th congressional district, we appreciate your time. You bet. Thank you. Tonight on cspan3, American History tv in primetime with archival footage from reel america series. Up next, News Coverage of the 1965 watts riots in los angeles. Then a series of government...

International business machines. Ibm presents cbs reports watts riot or revolt . Bill has covered the watts story from the moment the rioting began. Three months ago on this street in los angeles, california, violence produced all this. A local riot or a revolt . Part of a National Social revolution. A carnival of hoodlums or a professional social illness . Most puzzling of all, if it was a riot, why did it happen here in the community thought to be least caught up in racial tensions . A frenchm...

Behind the rights, commissioned by governor pat brown, which concludes high unemployment, poor schools and Living Conditions and Police Abuses were the main colleges the main causes of community unrest. Get your hands up high. You can list them higher than that. The first one drops their hands is dead. [gunshot] absolutely incredible scene. Gunbattle in the middle of broadway. In the streets of los angeles. [explosion] a small army of policeman , most of them carrying shotguns. National guardsme...

I've lived in L.A. during the Watts riots, the beating of Rodney King and the death of George Floyd. Books about these times, such as Gary Phillips' "Ash Dark as Night," help me understand them.

The automobile’s domination of Los Angeles was not a triumph of the market, but an exercise in regulation and rent-seeking.

Today, Latinos make up more than 70 percent of the neighborhood's population. But almost every organization, committee and board is headed by African Americans.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and President Joe Biden addressed the Black Press of America at the annual convention of National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) in Memphis recently

Find out more about key events that shaped the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and ‘60s, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, and the founding of the Black Panther Party.

Ozie Bell Gonzaque volunteered her time and talents to the City of Los Angeles for more than 30 years and play a critical role in uplifting and improving the L.A.’s Watts community.