In a July 14, 1967 file photo, top, National Guardsmen stand at the corner of Springfield Avenue and Mercer Street in Newark, N.J., where four days of deadly violence and looting came to be known as the Newark riots. In a June 16, 2017 photo, bottom, men walk past the same corner 50 years later with greenery where buildings once stood. (Photo by AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, top; Julio Cortez, bottom)
