Fifty years ago, a deadly urban riot began one hot summer night in my hometown of Detroit. It ignited around 3:30 a.m., when police arrested 85 patrons of an illegal after-hours bar in the midst of an all-Black neighborhood that had been all-White 15 or 20 years before. When the mayhem ended six nights later, … Continue reading Fiftieth Anniversary of the Detroit Riot: Personal Observations and Evolutionary Analysis