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Panel | LA Protests: Past and Present

  • The Norman Lear Center Los Angeles, CA (map)

The first big uprising against police violence in L.A. came in 1965 in Watts. Today’s BLM protests are broader and more promising, but the challenges are no less daunting. Stories and perspectives from the authors of Set the Night on Fire (Mike Davis and Jon Wiener); N•gga Theory (Jody Armour); and Bearing Witness While Black (Allissa Richardson), moderated by USC Annenberg professor and polymath Josh Kun. | Open to the public.