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Tag: listeners remember

 
News

Remembering Watts: Listeners reflect on the 50th anniversary

News

Fifty years ago, Watts erupted. A white traffic officer stopped a black driver named Marquette Frye, suspecting him of drunk driving. The stop led to an altercation. A crowd gathered and tensions that…

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Aug 10, 2015 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
LA riots

Listeners Remember: ‘We did a whole lot of damage to our own neighborhoods’

LA riots

Thanks to all of our listeners who shared stories of the LA Riots. Here are some of them.

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May 01, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
News

Listeners Remember: ‘It was a really scary and confusing time’

News

Listener Loanie Huynh Fulton remembers being eleven-years-old when the LA Riots broke out. She says, “It was  a particularly tense time in terms of social interactions and in some sense…

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Apr 27, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
LA riots

Listeners Remember: ‘Most people were scared’

LA riots

KCRW listener, Ted Brennan had just gotten out of the army when the 1992 riots broke out. He was with the National Guard and was deployed from San Diego to…

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Apr 25, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
Arts & Culture

Listeners Remember: ‘I was playing with Lou Reed when everything went weird’

Arts & Culture

KCRW listener and bassist Michael Blair shares his memory of the LA Riots on our Facebook page. I was playing with Lou Reed when everything went weird. During sound check…

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Apr 25, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
LA riots

Listeners Remember: ‘The store basically got set on fire’

LA riots

KCRW listener Adriana Rivera says she was in the eighth grade when the riots broke out. Her local neighborhood store had been looting and she went down to check it…

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Apr 24, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
LA riots

Listeners Remember: ‘I was a little black girl attending an all Korean school’

LA riots

Entrepreneur and community gardener, Eve Fouché grew up in Los Angeles. She reflects on being one of three African-American girls in a Korean school when the LA Riots broke out.…

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Apr 23, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
LA riots

Listeners Remember: ‘It felt like the entire city was trying to flee Los Angeles’

LA riots

When the verdict was announced, I was in the lower-level cafeteria at USC. I remember the entire cafeteria going silent when the news was read on the four televisions that…

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Apr 23, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
Economy

Listeners Remember: ‘I remember feeling safe’

Economy

What do you remember most? I remember how the news portrayed the riots as complete chaos, but for a young Black boy, there was a different reality. For the first…

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Apr 19, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
Economy

Listeners Remember: ‘I had a naive faith that people would do the right thing’

Economy

What do you remember most? How frightened I was. I had a naive faith that people would do the right thing. It was a period in my life that dispelled…

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Apr 18, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
LA Noir

Listeners Remember: ‘The fires and the smoke’

LA Noir

What do you remember most? The fires and the smoke. Watching the craziness on television, then going outside and smelling the smoke. For days and weeks afterwards you could still…

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Apr 17, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg

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