Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ignited by a single arrest and fueled by decades of poverty and police brutality, the Watts Uprising of 1965 turned the Los ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watts native William Taylor stands in front of bags of trash along Beach Street in Watts. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times) ...

Watts has changed from an exclusively Black neighborhood in the 1960s to one that’s majority Latino. It remains poor, with high unemployment. The uprising started Aug. 11, 1965, in a nearby ...

When earlier this year AP photographer Jae Hong returned to Los Angeles from Japan, where he had been covering the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics, he set out to do a story on Asian Americans and ...

Walking into the Survivors Healing Garden on 108th Street, just blocks from Watts Towers, Oya Sherrills radiates calm as she stops to pick up trash that has blown in from the Union Pacific railroad ...

It was planned as a peaceful day of mourning for a Watts neighborhood matriarch many knew simply as "Mama Curtis." Instead, attendees said, a memorial in Watts over the weekend for 94-year-old Earlene ...

Fifty years ago today, police clashed with a black motorist in Los Angeles, beginning what came to be known as the Watts Riots or the "rebellion." The violence began after two policemen scuffled with ...

The owner of a scrap metal company that’s been linked to explosions and hazardous materials in the Watts neighborhood of South Los Angeles was ordered Tuesday to pay over $1.8 million in restitution.

William Taylor has resorted to photographing the trash. Recently, it was a huge heap that blocked a Watts sidewalk and included palm branches, a shopping cart, a car tire and bulging garbage bags. He ...

Watts has changed from an exclusively Black neighborhood in the 1960s to one that’s majority Latino. It remains poor, with high unemployment. The uprising started Aug. 11, 1965, in a nearby ...