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The more relevant, and worrying, parallel may be the period from 1957 to the end of 1968, when military forces actively ...

Lyndon Johnson had good reason: to protect Selma-to-Montgomery marchers, ... restaurants and factories. Just as police brutality sparked the Watts riots, ...

President Donald Trump's National Guard deployment in Los Angeles ignites political debate as Republicans blame sanctuary ...

The current deployment has been ordered over the objection of the state governor and the city’s mayor, heralding a battle ...

As a zombie movie, the film breaks new ground in grisly realism and Freudian horror, deploying a host of disruptive ...

In 1965, during the civil rights era, President Lyndon Johnson wanted to send the National Guard to Alabama to protect participants in the Selma to Montgomery march. Alabama Gov. George Wallace ...

Today, over 20 percent of doctors who practice in America were born outside the U.S., a number that has grown by 30 percent ...

Sixty years ago the nation largely moved in a positive direction to address the festering problems that sparked the Watts riots. I’m feeling less confident about where the country goes from here.