Watch: LA Riots: Then and Now Los Angeles looks a lot different than it did in 1992. The smoke and shattered glass are long gone, but the memories of the Los Angeles uprising, commonly known as the “L.A. riots,” have had lingering effects on black Angelenos.

'Look what happens when we don't talk to each other': Korean American filmmakers' L.A. riots stories Korean American filmmakers on the lasting impact that the violent, race-fueled LA Riots had on generations to come, and how they've written their perspective on the legacy of the riots into film.

When Los Angeles burned: Remembering the LA riots 25 years later Following the acquittal of police officers for the brutal beating of Rodney King, as well as a light sentence for a Korean shopkeeper in the shooting death of Latasha Harlins, the LA riots began. From April 29 – May 4, 1992, South Central was beset Read more ... by mass riots, looting, and fires. Over 11,000 peop...

Deep in Brazil’s Amazon, Exploring the Ruins of Ford’s Fantasyland The town of Fordlândia, founded in 1928 by Henry Ford, stands as a crumbling testament to the folly of trying to bend the jungle to the will of man.

Brazil’s largest cocaine cartels are waging a bloody war in the country’s prisons Two riots last week were just the latest examples of an escalating standoff to control import routes from the world’s largest cocaine producers.

Riot by Drug Gangs in Brazil Prison Leaves 60 Dead The authorities said the riot at the Compaj prison in Manaus was part of a power struggle over the drug trade in the Amazon basin.

50 years later: The legacy of the Watts riots

Watts' elders reflect on riots' legacy: Too much change or not enough? Progress can be a touchy subject for black people who came of age in South Los Angeles during the era of the Watts riots.

Watts Riots: Then and now photos A look back at scenes from the Watts Riots in then-and-now photos.

Riots Don't Work, Writes New York Times Columnist Writing About Riots Nicholas Kristof dedicates his New York Times op-ed column to the Baltimore riots today. Even though some people say rioting is good, Kristof explains, rioting is bad. It is bad like the police snapping a man’s neck and crushing his larynx and leav Read more ... ing him to die is bad. The two things are just like each other: