On Thursday, April 27th, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance hosted a Race and American Politics event, an exclusive film screening of National Geographic Documentary Films’ LA 92. The film looks back at the riots that followed the acquittal of the four L.A. police officers charged with beating Rodney King 25 years ago. Following the screening, HKS Associate Professor Leah Wright Rigueur moderated an audience discussion on historical and political themes presented in the film. LaGina Gause, Ash Center Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow, and Treva Lindsey, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University, Research for Equity for Women and Girls of Color Fellow, Hutchins Center, provided responses. This event was co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the HKS Diversity Committee, the HKS Office for Student Diversity and Inclusion, and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
