LA Weekly’s ‘Lost’ Coverage of the ’92 Riots Found on the Los Angeles Times Website

Pandora Young — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:29:56 +0000

Unfortunately the LA Weekly archives appear to be somewhat disorganized, leading a staff blogger to declare that the paper barely covered the riots in ’92. In fact, the May 8, 1992 issue was dedicated to the riots. LA Weekly says they have lost their copies and have not read the issue, but a lovely article from the issue is available online — it was published last week by the Los Angeles Times.

From “Waiting for the Rainbow Sign,” by Lynell George:

At Crenshaw, I see what has been sketchily described on the radio for the last couple of hours: figures rendered to silhouettes, occupying the street, advancing randomly. Shouting, laughing, they drift on foot into traffic, into the beams of headlights, as if they are truly invincible. My tires eat glass, trundle over big, splintered husks of plywood, of brick and clods of dirt.

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LA Weekly’s ‘Lost’ Coverage of the ’92 Riots Found on the Los Angeles Times Website