Human remains excavated at El Pueblo Campo Santo, Jan. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) After improperly excavating the remains of more than 100 people who were buried at the first cemetery in El Pueblo de Los Angeles, next to La Placita Catholic Church, downtown, the County of Los Angeles finally returned the remains to their [...]

The Port Huron Statement: A Manifesto Reconsidered Looking back at that summer 50 years ago, it feels as though the Port Huron Statement wrote us, not the other way around. “We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.” Those were [...]

Moderator: Nan Feyler, J.D., M.P.H.Chief of Staff, City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health Panelists: Michael A. Rodríguez, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor, Vice Chair of Research and George F. Kneller Endowed Chair in the Department of Family Medicine at UCLA. He is Director of the Multicultural Research Network on Health and Health Care and Associate [...]

Former California Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno watched countless protests take place outside his office in Civic Center Plaza when he was on the court. He never imagined that one day he’d be a participant, he said. But on April 18, Moreno and people from all corners of the legal community turned out by [...]

SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice> Parque Madrid Río, Don Quixote y Sancho Panza Puente de Segovia en el río Manzanares Click here to read this column in English. Justicia Verde El Parque Madrid Río, Don Quijote y Sancho Panza por Robert García Madrid ha creado el Parque Madrid Río, al [...]

The week of the riots and rebellion by coincidence was the first day of my work as a civil rights attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund in downtown L.A. Friday morning, May 1, 1992, I drove downtown on the 10  freeway. It was an eery experience. The freeway was abandoned except for [...]

The Simi Valley jury finds the four police officers not guilty of committing any crimes against Rodney King, except that the jury is hung on one count of excessive force against Laurence Powell. The judge declares a mistrial on that count. Riots and rebellion erupt throughout Los Angeles. Daryl Gates leaves police headquarters to attend [...]

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History by Robert Garcia Adapted from “Robert García, Riots & Rebellion: Civil Rights, Police Reform and the Rodney King Beating” (1997). View the complete article at KCET Departures. The riots and rebellion after the Rodney King beating exposed evils deeply rooted in the structures of this society. They were a reaction not only to the [...]

The conference From the Ashes at USC’s PERE (Program for Environmental and Regional Equity) includes The City Project’s Robert Garcia on a panel at 11:15 on April 26. SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center) presents the exhibit Uprising. Opening Reception for Uprising: Los Angeles 1992 / Photographs by Christine Burrill Excavating 20 years later, [...]