The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Bill Thomas
Junius Johnson
Art Berman
Officer Zekanis
Bob Richardson
Ruthana Richardson
Clifford Turpin
J.T. Turpin
Mrs. Canfield
Roxie Turpin
Jason (age 12)
John Riggs
Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)
Reverend Brooks
Mr. Canfield
Guidance Counselor
Dominique Freeman
Spook Hunter
Reggie Freeman
Cora