Rodney King was honored 35 years after his beating became the catalyst that transformed Hip-Hop into a powerful movement.
The Rodney King Foundation, My Tribe Rise and Altadena Rising are commemorating 35 years after Rodney King’s beating by Los Angeles police, which sparked demonstrations and riots nationwide. King, who ...
Twenty-five years ago, on the cusp of the home video era, a drunk and speeding Rodney King led officers on a pursuit that ended in front of George Holliday's Lake View Terrace apartment in northeast ...
Thirty-four years after Rodney King’s beating, arrest and a verdict that followed, prompting widespread rioting in Los ...
A plaque honoring Rodney King's legacy has been installed at the site of his former childhood home in Altadena. Felicia Ford, ...
LOS ANGELES — Twenty years after the videotaped Rodney King beating exposed racial wounds and ignited passions that eventually sparked a devastating riot, Police Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday he’s ...
After the Rodney King beating in 1991 and the Rampart corruption scandal of 1999, the federal Department of Justice threatened to sue the Los Angeles Police Department over a pattern and practice of ...
The man who famously shot video of four Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King in 1991 has died of COVID-19. According to the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press, George Holliday, 61, ...
In 1992 four of the Los Angeles Police Department officers who brutally beat Rodney Glen King during a traffic stop were acquitted, and the anger over the perception of injustice set off the Los ...
Since the Rodney King beating and the riots of 1992, new police chiefs and commissions have earned high marks for reforming the Los Angeles Police Department. But lately, there's been a string of jury ...
This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots and the first time I heard race being discussed on television. I was 10. The year before, I had watched the Rodney King beating on the ...