Metro Times’ look back at the 1943 Detroit race riot 60 years after. Mention “Detroit” and “riot” to most metro Detroiters today, and most people will think of the year 1967. Some will call it a “riot ...

Tuesday marks the 80th anniversary of the 1943 Detroit race riots. Brawls started on Belle Isle and then spread to downtown. Thirty-four people died; nine were white, and 25 were Black. Seventeen of ...

In August 1942, barely eight months into America’s involvement in WWII, Life Magazine ran the article “Detroit is Dynamite,” covering economic and social conditions wrought by the city’s outsized war ...

You’ve probably never heard of Mose McKissick. He was one of the 34 people who died during the 1943 riot in 24-hour, bursting-at-the-seams, Arsenal-of-Democracy Detroit. Minding his business, waiting ...

Last year, Detroit abounded with memories of the city during the tumultuous summer of 1967. Call it “the riot” or “the rebellion” as you prefer, but you must agree that the event was scrutinized as ...

The deadly 1967 civil disturbance in Detroit was one of the turning points in city history, but it was only one of a number of disorders that have broken out in the 316 years since the French settled ...

These awful headlines in the Plattsburgh Press-Republican were staring readers in the eye on Wednesday morning June 23, 1943, in the middle of World War II. I could salvage only about one-third of the ...

Exactly 80 years later, we're taking a look back at the 1943 Detroit race riot -- a two-day riot in which 34 people died and hundreds were injured. We're sitting down with Dr. Thomas Klug, a professor ...