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Today in History: March 3, Rodney King beaten by Los Angeles police
16 Feb 2026 18:45 GMT
… 3, 1991, motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers after a … triggered days of rioting and dozens of deaths in Los Angeles.)
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Black Visual Artist Nick Cave’s ‘Mammoth’ Exhibition Challenges Historical Erasure At The Smithsonian
16 Feb 2026 11:53 GMT
… history and identity.
Cave, a Black artist raised in Missouri and … in response to the 1991 Rodney King beating, the works conceal the wearer … as Cave did.
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Opinion: Shut it down: We need more forceful response to ICE
16 Feb 2026 23:04 GMT
… seen the video of Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King in a very similar …
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“Until you see someone like you doing something, you can never imagine yourself doing it”: Spike Lee on Malcolm X, role models and the press
16 Feb 2026 19:48 GMT
… our shining black prince, our manhood”. Young black men today … LA premiere of She’s Gotta Have It, a skinny black … should be directed by a black director, presumably yourself. Why … such as the Rodney King beating and the riots in Los Angeles say about racism …
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Before 'Rolling Stone,' America had 'Soul' magazine
16 Feb 2026 17:01 GMT
… Soul entertainment publication for Black readers was started … founded the Black entertainment biweekly newspaper celebrating Black music in … Watts riots in 1965, the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles in … was the first Black anchor on Los Angeles TV. She …
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Dreamscape review – dazzling hip-hop drama reclaims vital spirit of teenager slain by police
15 Feb 2026 16:29 GMT
Before George Floyd, after Rodney King, and in between countless … long, appalling, litany of Black victims of police violence.
Here … fringe, is told entirely through beatboxing, spoken word, hip-hop … just as charismatic as he beatboxes, raps and narrates the …
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Rich Archbold: OWLs made Long Beach better during tough times
15 Feb 2026 15:30 GMT
… started in 1992 in Los Angeles with the Rodney King riots, which spilled over into … ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles and the transcontinental rail hub … on fire because of the Rodney King riots,” Lowenthal said. “There was such …
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When There Is No Gray: A Border Patrol Killing With No Plausible Ambiguity
14 Feb 2026 23:14 GMT
… Rodney King and the Illusion of "Gray"
For decades, the black … police, but the videotaped beating of Rodney King on March 3,1991, … framing the issue in stark black and white, or in today … terms, red versus blue.
Rodney King was not without fault; he …
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‘History is being erased’: Artist Nick Cave brings his ancient mammoths to the Smithsonian
13 Feb 2026 12:40 GMT
… dismembered heads or arms of Black bodies, cast in dark … show, “Plot,” shows two black figures somberly sprawled on the … wake of police brutality against Rodney King in 1991, a moment that … directly responding to protection for Black bodies at the time, …
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Dana Lixenberg: “It’s Important to Really See and Connect With the Other”
13 Feb 2026 00:46 GMT
… Central Los Angeles riots of 1993. The city burns after Rodney King, an … African-American taxi driver, was viciously beaten … opus: nearly four hundred black and white images, a … at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, until …