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A Lollapalooza Doc That Refuses to Whitewash History
Vulture· 7 hours agoJust months before, Americans had watched a video of Los Angeles police violently beating Rodney King. In the new Paramount+ docuseries Lolla: The Story...
To be a Black man in America
Daily Montanan via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe summer after the world witnessed the brutal beating of Rodney King, I and a group of friends made our way to a nightclub in the southern part of Dade...
L.A.’s dirtiest cop: A mild-mannered traffic officer who moonlighted as a hit man
Los Angeles Times· 7 days agoAt Mule Creek State Prison, he attends 12-step programs and reads fantasy novels. William Leasure,...
How The Crow captured the angst of the 1990s
The A.V. Club· 4 days agoAlex Proyas’ 1994 movie The Crow is arguably most remembered as the film in which Brandon Lee—son of legendary martial arts movie star Bruce Lee—was...
Them: The Scare
New Times San Luis Obispo· 6 days agoCreated by Little Marvin, this second season of the anthology horror series Them continues with Deborah Ayorinde in the lead, this time as LAPD police...
From O.J. Simpson to Dexter Reed, Black images become media fuel
Chicago Sun-Times· 5 days agoO.J. Simpson died the day after the Dexter Reed video was released. Simpson’s “trial of the century” that aired all over television 30 years ago and Reed’s fatal shooting death in March by Chicago ...
Letter: Party politics has replaced national loyalty among politicians
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 3 days ago"People, I just want to say, can't we all get along?" That's a quote from Rodney King in 1991, after...
Cooperation can end violent protests
New York Daily News· 6 days agoProtests related to the Israel-Palestine conflict have erupted on campuses across the United States, often resulting in police intervention. At Dartmouth...
No matter what district attorney candidates say, Los Angeles is much safer than it used to be
The Desert Sun· 3 days agoIt’s hard to generalize about a city like Los Angeles, and even harder to do so about Los Angeles...
Guest Opinion: If I did it: From Brentwood to Mar-a-Lago
Grand Island Independent· 4 days agoThirty years ago this summer, on a cool evening in the Brentwood community of Los Angeles,...