Twenty-five years ago today, the videotaped police beating of Rodney King brought police brutality and racial inequality to the forefront of public discourse, social issues that still reverberate today. Twenty-five years ago today, in the early morning hours of March 3, 1991, what should have been a routine police stop for excessive speeding became a […]
John Ridley is keeping the ball rolling with his career, and is not letting that Academy Award he won for writing 12 Years a Slave…
Cleveland-born boxer, 2012 USA Olympian Terrell Gausha (pictured), who used to proudly don the American flag on his boxing shorts when he fought in the…
Stacey Koon, the Los Angeles cop who was involved in the notorious beating of the late Rodney King back in 1990, was seen driving a…
Nearly two months after police brutality victim Rodney King (pictured) reportedly died at the bottom of a pool in Rialto, Calif., his death report has…
via CNN Friends and family of Rodney King gathered in Los Angeles to bid final farewell to the man whose 1991 beating by the city’s police sparked riots after the acquittal of the four officers involved. King was found dead in his swimming pool at his Rialto, California, home almost two weeks ago. He was […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Rodney King‘s fiancee said in a frantic 911 call that she threw a shovel to try to rouse him after she…
Since Rodney King‘s (pictured) unexpected death over the weekend, after being found dead in his pool, some of his friends are now questioning fiancée Cynthia Kelley‘s…
Twenty years later, Rodney King’s simple yet profound question still lingers, from the street where Trayvon Martin died all the way to the White House:…
Rodney King’s 1991 beating by Los Angeles police and the subsequent acquittal of his attackers sparked the biggest civil insurrection of our generation. King will…
Rodney King’s death on Sunday (June 17, 2012) was a tragic and unfitting ending for the man who was at the center of one of…
Rodney King, 47, had been drinking all day and smoking marijuana at his Rialto, California home in the hours before his death, according to his fiancée,…
