2017 marks the 25-year anniversary of the 1992 L.A. riots, a devastating moment in Los Angeles and American history. Amid growing racial tensions, the riots began following the acquittal of four Los ...

The riots of 1992 revealed a city divided against itself. After the violence, looting and destruction subsided, the big word was -unity,- embodied in Rodney King-s pleading -can-t we all just get ...

Twenty years ago, Los Angeles erupted with civil unrest after a jury acquitted three white and one Hispanic police officer who had beaten a black truck driver named Rodney King. As we remember those ...

David Bowie was struck like a lightning bolt by the circumstances of being caught in the LA riots, so much so that it ...

One verdict can change the course of history. The news of the police officers' acquittal in Rodney King's police brutality case reverberated throughout the streets of Los Angeles. Variously called a ...