Rodney King: 30 years after brutal beating, activists say LAPD 'still corrupt and violent'
Advocates who lived through the riots are now fighting to defund the police and dismantle unions that thwart accountability
March 2018
Gook review – Justin Chon's fierce and forthright take on the LA riots
Comic vignettes lead to tragedy in the Korean-American actor/director’s fictional reworking of a real 1991 shooting
January 2018
The week in theatre: The Birthday Party; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 – review
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 review – voices ring out from Rodney King riots
September 2017
First look review
Kings review – Halle Berry and Daniel Craig fail to ignite baffling LA riots drama
The second feature from Mustang director Deniz Gamze Ergüven is a frustratingly made film with brief flashes of power but a lack of focus
August 2017
Outside in America
'I never realized how black everyone is': the uneasy truth about America's homeless
Juan King, brother of Rodney King, whose brutal injuries triggered the 1992 Los Angeles riots, shares his story of homelessness
April 2017
Rodney King review – Spike Lee's Netflix special is a bleakly poetic howl of rage
Spike Lee: ‘Black men are still viewed as predators’
Rodney King riots 25 years later: a view from the corner where it all began
LA 92 review – arresting footage of the riots that rocked the city
June 2016
Daniel Craig and Halle Berry to team up on LA riots drama
Craig will play a South Central recluse who helps Berry’s working-class mother in one of two films in development about the 1992 civil unrest
October 2015
John Ridley to direct LA riots film
12 Years a Slave screenwriter working on film based on 1992 Rodney King attack and ensuing race riots that left 53 dead
August 2015
A moment that changed me
A moment that changed me – the Rodney King police acquittal
Lola Okolosie
This verdict made me realise all black people in white societies – Africans and Caribbeans – were viewed and treated alike by the institutions supposed to protect us
May 2015
Meet the author
Ryan Gattis: ‘I knew I’d need to tell my own story as a survivor of violence’
The novelist on winning the trust of LA gangs for his novel set during the city’s 1992 riots, and the injury that changed his own life
April 2015
LAPD's reforms since Rodney King beating offer hope amid police violence
Police officer shown kicking man in video faces criminal charges and condemnation from chief – a far cry from events of the 1990s
October 2014
Our sons know they could be the next Michael Brown. But they should never surrender
Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine: Two months later, too many young men must still contemplate their mortality in the way of Ferguson
May 2013
From the Guardian archive
From the archive, 1 May 1992: Rodney King verdict sparks LA riots
Originally published in the Guardian on 1 May 1992: Playthell Benjamin says equality and justice for black Americans have been put on trial following acquittal of Los Angeles police officers
August 2012
Rodney King drowned accidentally while intoxicated, coroner rules
King was in state of 'drug- and alcohol-induced delirium' when he fell or jumped into swimming pool, report concludes
July 2012
Rodney King remembered as 'symbol of forgiveness'
Rev Al Sharpton remembers Rodney King as a forgiving man who bore the scars of his infamous beating with dignity
June 2012
Rodney King autopsy completed but investigators face long wait for results
Police treating death as apparent drowning and have found no signs of foul play, but toxicology tests could take six weeks
