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 ...

WXYZ-TV will broadcast the television premiere of the film, “12th and Clairmount,” on Sunday, July 23, the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit riots/rebellion ...

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 ...

Native Detroiter Robert Davis participates in One Detroit’s “Destination Detroit” series. Native Detroiter Robert Davis reflects on his parents' journey to Detroit in the 1950s, his childhood in the ...

DETROIT — The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city's bloody 1967 race riot is receiving a historic marker.

It wasn't sweet music that brought Martha Reeves to the microphone at the Fox Theatre that day in July 1967; it was brutal reality. Detroit was burning. Headlining a string of shows for a hometown ...

The Detroit disturbances of July 1967 continue to fascinate locals and the nation at large, as evidenced by a rash of new books on the subject. After 50 years, that violent summer still stands as a ...

Former Detroit Police Chief Isaiah McKinnon was a young officer in 1967 and recalled with gripping detail how he was pulled over by white officers while driving in the Motor City who drew guns on him.

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 ...