In director Kathryn Bigelow's first film since 'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Detroit' tells the powerful story of the Detroit riots in 1967 and the murders of three African-American teens at the Algiers Motel.
I peeled back the shade and peeked out the bedroom window, defying my big sister’s specific instructions, because I was just too curious.
Right there on the corner, a few hundred feet from our house, I saw a tank surrounded by soldiers in full riot gear “patrolling” a neighborhood that was literally on fire. The tank stayed there all night, probably all week, as part of the military presence ordered by Governor George Romney.