Although baseball, Mom's apple pie, and the Fourth of July are staples in the cultural fabric of the United States, nothing is more American than race riots. Throughout the nation's history nothing has been more constant than racial...

Race Riot is a 1929 animated short subject, featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The short concerns Oswald trying to convince his horse, Mopey, to run in a horse race and win it. The cartoon is noted for being the first entirely produced and directed by...

It's far too easy to pin recent violence in the L.A. County Jail on ethnic tension LOS ANGELES-WHEN THE NATION'S largest jail system erupted in violence on Feb. 4, officials thought they would quickly bring the situation under control. L.A. County Jail correctional...

One hundred known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot will go without restitution after the Oklahoma legislature recently revised a bill asking for reparalions. The bill, sponsored by State Senator Maxine Homer (D), was instead amended to establish other ways of acknowledging the...

The North Carolina House formally apologized Wednesday "for the injustice, cruelty and brutality of slavery," becoming the latest state to offer its regret.The House passed the apology resolution 117-0, along with a resolution that previously passed in the Senate apologizing for the state's Jim Crow...

Visitors to attorney Mike Woods' law practice are greeted with a sight not often found in legal offices: a jail cell.The office for Woods and Woods is located in the old Vanderburgh County Jail — an 1890 downtown building honored Tuesday with a historical marker...