Race Relations: Then and Now




KCRW's Which Way, LA? show

Summary: WWLA? began its 23-year run in the wake of an incident so complex we still haven’t decided what to call it.  The Rodney King 'riots?" The "uprising?" The "civil disturbance?"  As WWLA? winds down, we look back and measuring what’s changed and what hasn’t.  One major component was race relations. Have we learned, as Rodney King famously put it, to “just get along?”  As always, that question has many different answers.