K-town'92 : reporters.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Boggs, Grace Lee, director.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992--Press coverage.

Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992.

Journalists--California--Los Angeles--Interviews.

Journalists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (00:14:48)) : sound, color

Other Title:

K-town'ninety-two

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Good Docs, 2017.

Language Note:

Closed-captions in English.

Summary:

When the LA riots/uprising/civil unrest exploded in 1992 following the acquittal of four LAPD officers who beat Rodney King, images of destruction beamed across the globe with little context as to why these events had occurred. TV news focused on African Americans, Latinos, and Koreans as both victims and perpetrators of violence, and footage of the "first multicultural riots" locked each group within a stereotype. K-Town'92 shares the reflections of Hector Tobar, Tammerlin Drummond, and John Lee, who, in 1992, were young reporters of color covering the civil unrest for the Los Angeles Times. Twenty-five years later, they revisit the sites, stories, and impressions of those tumultuous events and reflect on the media coverage they helped to create. In this film, Peabody award-winning filmmaker Grace Lee asks viewers to consider whose voices get to tell the story of the Los Angeles uprising.

Participant:

Director, Grace Lee.

Notes:

Description based on XML content.

ISBN:

1-03-624974-3

9781036249748

OCLC:

1584443519

Publisher Number:

302192