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The 1943 Detroit race riot took place in Detroit, Michigan, from the evening of June 20 through to the early morning of June 22. It occurred in a period of dramatic population increase and social tensions associated with the military buildup of U.S. participation in World War II, as Detroit's automotive industry was converted to the war effort.
The Christie Pits riot occurred on 16 August 1933 at the Christie Pits (Willowvale Park) playground in Toronto, Ontario. The riot can be understood in the context of the Great Depression, antisemitism, " Swastika Clubs" and parades and resentment of "foreigners" in Toronto, and the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in Germany in 1933. [2]
Unicorn Riot. Unicorn Riot is a decentralized, nonprofit, left-wing [1] [2] [3] media collective that originated online in 2015. The group is known for reporting on far-right organizations and sources of racial and economic injustice in the US. The non-hierarchical media organization operates in the US cities of Boston, Denver, Minneapolis/St ...
Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began during the early 1990s within the United States in Olympia, [1] Washington [2] and the greater Pacific Northwest [3] and has expanded to at least 26 other countries. [4] A subcultural movement that combines feminism, punk music, and politics, [5] it is often associated with third ...
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots [1] that took place from June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents. [2] It was one of the dozen wartime industrial cities that suffered race-related riots in the summer ...
The 2020 Delhi riots, or North East Delhi riots, were multiple waves of bloodshed, property destruction, and rioting in North East Delhi, beginning on 23 February 2020 and brought about chiefly by Hindu mobs attacking Muslims. [13] [14] Of the 53 people killed, two-thirds were Muslims who were shot, slashed with repeated blows, or set on fire.
The event, which drew thousands of participants to Union Square Park, became a riot. Social media posts of the event surfaced around the same time. Cenat was taken into police custody by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) during the riot and was charged with inciting a riot and unlawful assembly. He appeared in court on August 16 and 18.
