Latasha Harlins and the LA Riots (1991)
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Radiotopia
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audio
Podknife tags |
History
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History
Publication Date |
Mar 15, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:15:37

It’s March 15th. On March 16th, 1991, a young girl, Latasha Harlins, was killed by a shopkeeper in South Central Los Angeles.

Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss how Harlins’s death led to outrage in the Black community in LA, inflamed Korean-American and African-American tensions, and eventually fed into the riots and violence around the Rodney King beating.

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