For residents of Los Angeles, April 29 is a day that lives on in infamy. Twenty-seven years ago, the streets of the city I now call home descended into chaos in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict, in which a jury acquitted four LAPD officers of charges related to his brutal assault, which was […]
The hour-long documentary focuses on the days after LAPD officers beat Rodney King, which sparked the riots. Saturday, April 29, marks the 25th anniversary of the fiery Los Angeles riots that occurred in the wake of the acquittal of four White LAPD officers who beat Rodney King when a routine traffic stop turned deadly. The Smithsonian Channel aired […]
“Here we are 25 years after [the] Los Angeles [riots] and we’re still having conversations,” Roland Martin said in an interview with the directors of LA 92. The 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots will be commemorated by a flurry of documentaries and special media events, examining the events before and after the […]
Twenty-five years ago today, the videotaped police beating of Rodney King brought police brutality and racial inequality to the forefront of public discourse, social issues that still reverberate today. Twenty-five years ago today, in the early morning hours of March 3, 1991, what should have been a routine police stop for excessive speeding became a […]
John Ridley is keeping the ball rolling with his career, and is not letting that Academy Award he won for writing 12 Years a Slave make him complacent. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ridley will be directing a movie about the Rodney King beating and the L.A. race riots that followed after the police officers […]
Cleveland-born boxer, 2012 USA Olympian Terrell Gausha (pictured), who used to proudly don the American flag on his boxing shorts when he fought in the ring, now says that because of George Zimmerman‘s not-guilty verdict, he will no longer rep the United State’s flag, according to TMZ. In his interview with the gossip website, the […]
There’s always some drama! Even though Rodney King won a $3.8 million dollar settlement following the infamous 1991 LAPD beating, the late 47-year-old leaves behind uncertainty on how he died and no money to cover his funeral costs.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/news/top-news/rodney-king%E2%80%99s-fiancee-not-invited-funeral There seems to be no love between Rodney King’s family and his fiancee, Cynthia Kelley. According to TMZ, King’s family has made no effort to reach out to Cynthia since King’s death last weekend.
Murder, Suicide or An ACCIDENT? Cops want more answers after finding the body Sunday morning of RODNEY King and now friends say his fiancee is lying about how he died. You may remember, King’s videotaped 1991 beating by white Los Angeles police officers led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The 47-year-old King was discovered […]
Murder, Suicide or An ACCIDENT? Cops want more answers after finding the body Sunday morning of RODNEY King.
Rodney King — the man who was at the center of the infamous Los Angeles riots — was found dead this morning in Rialito, CA. He was 47. According to our sources, King’s fiancée found him dead at the bottom of a pool. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ they responded to a call at 5:25 […]
The Rodney King beating set off a spark within Los Angeles’ black community, and when the four officers charged with assaulting him were acquitted, that spark exploded into the worst riots our country had seen in decades, or possibly ever. Bob Tur and Marika Gerrard, a former husband and wife news reporting power duo, caught […]