Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley Thomas Speaks on ’92 civil unrest
July 5, 2017
Sebastian Ridley-Thomas recalls his personal experience of the L.A. 1992 Uprising and Police reform.
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25th Anniversary of 1992 L.A. Uprising
Can We All Get Along? 25 Years Later at CAAM
May 9, 2017
May. 18 In 1992, Rodney King made a national appeal in an attempt to quell Los Angeles’s violent response to the acquittal of the four officers who beat him. In a panel discussion held at First AME Church of Los Angeles, Tyree Boyd-Pates, curator of CAAM’s exhibition No Justice, No Peace: LA 1992, will engage Reverend Cecil Murray of First AME, Rodney King’s daughter, Lora King, and Mark D. Craig, author of Ain’t a Damn Thing Changed and an original Parker Center demonstrator, to examine the legacy of the uprisings and assess whether LA is faring any better in 2017
Feinstein, Harris Introduce Resolution Commemorating 25th Anniversary of Los Angeles Civil Unrest
May 3, 2017
Feinstein, Harris Introduce Resolution Commemorating 25th Anniversary of Los Angeles Civil Unrest
Community Organizations Rally In Memory of Uprising
April 27, 2017
Last month, the SLA BHC coalition gathered at a Town Hall meeting as a reunion of their collective commitment and celebration to multi-racial organizing.