Is Our Nation a Battleground Where There Will Be Winners and Losers?

If you were in the ghettoes of Newark, Detroit or scores of other cities that summer, you were not wearing flowers in your hair. Forget about utopia: You were staking out, in action, fury and bitterness.

Fifty years ago this week, in the summer of 1967, the streets of Newark exploded in violence. Here is a first-hand account of the tragic events that changed the city forever.

A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...