(The Root) — There’s lots of buzz and fear out there about black people rioting in the streets if a verdict other than “guilty” is handed down in the George Zimmerman case. As the trial winds down, ...

Just over a year ago, riots swept across parts of the UK following the murder of three schoolgirls in Southport. In 2011, the police killing of Mark Duggan led to five nights of rioting that left five ...

We hear it all the time about riots: "hooliganism" or, as David Cameron put it last week, "criminality, pure and simple." But riots are complex events, hard to reduce to something as simple as that.

The summer of 2025 has not yet officially begun, but it already looks like another long, hot one. Los Angeles has faced days of anti-ICE protests and rioting, which have spread to dozens of other ...

This post is in response to Understanding Why People Riot By Ken Eisold Ph.D. ‘The urge to destroy is also a creative urge,’ wrote the nineteenth century Russian anarchist, Mikhail Bakunin. He might, ...

Josh Hawley on "Jesse Watters Primetime" ©[Screenshot/Fox News/"Jesse Watters Primetime"] Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley said Tuesday on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime that he believes those ...

LOS ANGELES — It’s been more than three decades since Yongsik Lee grabbed a shotgun and climbed to the top of his furniture store during the 1992 Los Angeles riots — becoming one of the infamous era’s ...