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Los Angeles Riots Fast Facts
CNN via Yahoo News· 11 months agoHere’s a look at the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. The riots stemmed from the acquittal of four white Los Angeles Police Department officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King in 1991 ...
Revisiting Anna Deavere Smith's 'Twilight: Los Angeles 1992,' A.R.T. offers powerful look at racism...
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe show: "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992” Conceived, written and revised by: Anna Deavere Smith;...
Column: 'Twilight' once showed L.A. how to heal. Now it's showing us we're still broken
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA National Guardsman stands at alert near graffiti that spells out support for Rodney King on April...
I idolized O.J. Simpson as a kid. Later, I thought he got away with murder.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 month agoO.J. Simpson, a former NFL player and actor, who was acquitted of his ex-wife's murder in what is known as the "trial of the century," died of cancer at the age of 76, according to a post on ...
From the archives | Arsons symbolic of racial divide: Fires fuel concerns that history is repeating...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis story originally published July 2, 1996. It is being republished as part of the commemoration...
'Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992' raises the voices of the city once more, 30 years later
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAnna Deavere Smith and director Gregg T. Daniel revisit the writer/performer's groundbreaking solo...
Review: A reimagined 'Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992' revival arrives at a time of protracted crisis
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago'Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,' Anna Deavere Smith's documentary play about the Rodney King uprising, is reconceived for a new era with many of the same problems.
Column: The O.J. trial defined an era when apocalyptic L.A. was the center of the universe
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 month agoO.J. Simpson's murder trial followed fast on the heels of devastating civil unrest and a deadly...
Bill Whitaker is a '60 Minutes' man in New York, but he still loves L.A.
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFrom 'CBS Evening News' to '60 Minutes' to a brief stint on 'Jeopardy!,' the veteran journalist gets...