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 ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. To recognize the 50-year anniversary of the 1967 uprising ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This is the first installment in a three-part series exploring the 1967 Detroit riot. Today's story looks at the building tensions leading into the riot. Next Sunday, the 50th ...

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 ...

Firemen fight to control blazing buildings after racial riots in Detroit, Michaigan, on July 25, 1967. More than 200 fires were reported in the city. (AP Photo) These photos were taken 50 years ago ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 design for an installation with wind chimes, a communal table and seating on the island park will be unveiled in September. Looking back on those fateful days and nights and thinking about the ...