When Newark police arrested and beat a Black taxi driver during a routine traffic stop on July 12, 1967, the incident ignited long-simmering tensions in the city’s Black neighborhoods, triggering ...

NEWARK, New Jersey — For years, Liz Del Tufo refused to follow white friends and neighbors who fled New Jersey in droves after deadly July 1967 riots that left the city of Newark in ruins. Half a ...

Black economic life in America has continually been buffeted by external forces — slavery, Jim Crow, racial violence, redlining, urban renewal, and economic exclusion. But in the latter half of the ...

An in-depth look at The Newark Riots, a conflict that forever changed life in the area. This feature-length documentary offers a chilling look at the long-term effects of urban conflict on a city, its ...