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'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...
'New things to learn' in Anna Deavere Smith’s revised ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992'
Patriot Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor more than three decades, playwright, actor and scholar Anna Deavere Smith has asked audiences to...
After a civil war and 1992 L.A. riots, he thought he'd seen it all. Then came a tornado
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNicolas Orellana was in his soccer business' headquarters when a tornado touched down in Montebello...
Los Angeles Riots Fast Facts
CNN via Yahoo News· 10 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 ...
After '92 riots, L.A. bought land in Watts and promised jobs. Now, it's weeds and shanties
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe city of Los Angeles bought a 10-acre property to bring jobs to Watts after the 1992 riots....
Photos: Former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan dies at 92
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLos Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, center, flanked by California Gov. Gray Davis, left, and L.A. developer Eli Broad, celebrates the announcement that...
Rosemary Kaul, groundbreaking L.A. Times photojournalist, dies
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLos Angeles Times staff photographer Rosemary Kaul walks in front of police officers guarding Parker...
Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan dies at 92
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFormer L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan samples wine at one of his restaurants in 2014. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times) Richard J. Riordan, the take-charge...
Los Angeles' mass uprisings in search of Black justice have punctuated my life, and my library
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoI've lived in L.A. during the Watts riots, the beating of Rodney King and the death of George Floyd....
John Cho's debut novel 'Troublemaker' releases in paperback
NextShark via Yahoo News· 1 year agoActor-turned-author John Cho’s bestselling debut novel “Troublemaker” is now available in paperback....