Rodney King

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June 19, 2012
Los Angeles Times reported that Sandra Gardea, 31, one of Rodney King's next door neighbors said she heard music playing…
June 19, 2012
RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - Results from toxicology tests could as long as six weeks to gather before coroner's officials can…
June 18, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An autopsy is scheduled for today for Rodney King, who's beating in Los Angeles in 1991…
June 18, 2012
OPINION - Before Rodney King, police brutality was not on the radar screen of white Americans, who were all too…
June 17, 2012
Twitter reactions to the death of Rodney King at age 47.
June 17, 2012
After his interview on MSNBC's "The Last Word" on April 25th, discussing the 20th anniversary of the L.A. riots, Rodney…
June 17, 2012
NEW YORK - On the day he planned to lead a march against a controversial police practice in New York,…
June 17, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Rodney King, whose videotaped beating shook the world in 1991, is dead at age 47, NBC News…
June 12, 2012
OPINION - Once the n-word -- the epithet in either of its pronunciations -- enters into the public sphere, in…
April 30, 2012
NEWS ONE - The visionary aspects of Cosby's show were often criticized by some for only showing a small slice…
April 27, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - 'Uprising' makes a case for hip-hop, predominately coming from the West Coast at that time, as being…
April 27, 2012
OPINION - The King beating verdict and the L.A. riots were a sad and tragic taint on the Tom Bradley…
April 27, 2012
OPINION - One thing has changed since 1992, that could have changed not only our response to the Rodney King…
April 27, 2012
OPINION - The LA riots helped change the way Americans talk about race, kicking off a two decade-long dialogue that…
April 26, 2012
VIDEO - Twenty years ago, amid the shock of the ongoing Los Angeles riots, there was a story that really…
April 26, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won't…
April 25, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles…
April 24, 2012
VIDEO - Henry Watson was part an event that provided some of the most violent images from the 1992 Los…
April 24, 2012
Rodney King was infamously the victim of police brutality that was luckily captured on film. He says now that he…
April 16, 2012
In a recent interview with CNN, Rodney King commented on the Trayvon Martin case, saying that he knows the screams…