How the LA riots changed the way we discuss race
OPINION - The LA riots helped change the way Americans talk about race, kicking off a two decade-long dialogue that has taken the nation into the Obama presidency and the era of Trayvon Martin...
Unborn baby shot in LA riots: 'I'm still here'
VIDEO - Twenty years ago, amid the shock of the ongoing Los Angeles riots, there was a story that really grabbed headlines: The youngest victim of the violence had been shot while still in her mother's womb...
The '92 riot: Revisiting a dark day in LA history
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won't allow him to forget it...
Rodney King reflects on an up-down life since riot
LOS ANGELES (AP) - We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles police officers who beat him after a traffic stop were acquitted, it touched off anger that affected an entire generation...
Reginald Denny attacker 'still coming to terms' with violence
VIDEO - Henry Watson was part an event that provided some of the most violent images from the 1992 Los Angeles riots -- the beating of trucker Reginald Denny after the jury's verdict was announced in the Rodney King beating trial...
Rodney King on Trayvon Martin: 'I'm hoping he gets justice'
Rodney King was infamously the victim of police brutality that was luckily captured on film. He says now that he is truly grateful his beating was recorded and that he sincerely hopes for justice for the family of Trayvon Martin...
Rodney King comments on Trayvon Martin
In a recent interview with CNN, Rodney King commented on the Trayvon Martin case, saying that he knows the screams recorded by the 911 call had to have been Trayvon's...
Rodney King gets house arrest for reckless driving
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Rodney King has been sentenced to 20 days of house arrest and fined $500 for misdemeanor reckless driving in Southern California...
Herman Cain vows to 'set the record straight'
ATLANTA (AP) - Cain has denied all the allegations as a smear campaign designed to upend his rise to the top of the polls...
Why does black-on-black violence equal entertainment?
From Rodney King to Oscar Grant, the African-American community is no stranger to videos of police brutality going viral...
