Tag: L.A. Riots
20 Years After: The Community Organizer
Aurea Montes-Rodriguez was changed forever by the riots
A Whole New Badge
Today’s LAPD is more Latino, more engaged, and more honest about its past. Does any of that make us safer?
L.A. on Fire: Ted Soqui’s Dramatic Images of the 1992 Riots
Even photographers were targets during the melee. How one captured the chaos in black and white
20 Years After: The Cop
Andrew Smith was changed forever by the Los Angeles Riots
20 Years After: The Good Samaritan
Titus Murphy was changed forever by the Los Angeles Riots
20 Years After: The Politician
Mark Ridley-Thomas was changed forever by the riots
20 Years After: The Survivor
In-Ha Cho was changed forever by the riots
For a Latino Reporter, Covering the ’92 Riots Meant Becoming a Spokesperson for “His People”
The riots needed their narrators, and RubĂ©n MartĂnez embraced the role—until he didn’t
Hyper Extensions
At the Hair Shop on Wilshire Boulevard, customers discover unity among the wigs and the weaves
Two Images Defined the L.A. Riots—but Their Reality Was Far More Complex
The reasons L.A.'s racial tensions boiled over were hardly black and white