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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored: Los Angeles, 1992, Revisited with Tobias Higbie and Kent Wong
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Almost exactly thirty-one years ago, Los Angeles was burning as several days of civil unrest erupted in the wake of the acquittal of the police officers who had brutally beaten Rodney King. It was not just an impulsive uprising fueled by rage at police brutality but a reflection...