It was no ordinary press junket. The 15 newsmen paid their own way on a chartered Boeing 737, and each day for a week they visited a different big-city black ghetto, from Cleveland to Watts.

RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS by Robert Conot. 497 pages. Banfam. 95¢.Watts, 1965, was the precursor and model for the race riots of 1967. In the sunny, sullen ghetto on Los Angeles' ...

The Negro ghetto of Watts in Los Angeles does not look at all like Harlem. Instead of the massive congested tenements, there are wide streets, small homes, grassy lawns and palm trees. But 98 per cent ...

He later was framed by corrupt Chicago cop Ronald Watts for drug possession, then exonerated. Lloyd Newman, made ‘Ghetto Life 101’ documentary at 13, dead at 43 of sickle cell complications ...

Mervin Dymally, California State Representative of the Watts ghetto, last night criticized the Black Power movement for not participating in the electoral process. "They talk about political power ...