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Rodney King
February 3, 2023
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Videos of Police Brutality Against Black People Are a Futile Spectacle in White America
The ritual of repeated “reckonings” hasn’t changed abuses by cops.
May 31, 2020
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America’s Social Contract Is Broken
The protests across the country are about more than police violence.
October 25, 2019
Magazine
How Men Distort the Race Debate
The rhetorical obsession with single mothers obscures the root cause of racial inequality.
February 13, 2019
How Videos of Police Brutality Traumatize African Americans and Undermine the Search for Justice
April 28, 2017
How Video Shaped Our Understanding of the L.A. Riots
On the riots' 25th anniversary, two new documentaries underscore the role that the medium has played in our cultural memory.
March 3, 2016
25 years after Rodney King, are we numb to videos of police violence?
May 11, 1998
The Closing of the American City
December 9, 1996
The Bloods and the Crits
July 29, 1996
A Man of Good Intentions
May 25, 1992
Following Orders
Why did the jury vote to acquit the police officers who beat Rodney King?

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