Rodney King, the man whose brutal beating by Los Angeles police officers sparked the Los Angeles race riots, was found dead Sunday at the age of 47. Police responded to a call from King's fiancee who ...

Footage of four Los Angeles Police Department officers beating Rodney King kicked off Spike Lee’s great 1992 film, Malcolm X, months after the Los Angeles riots had died down. Now, 25 years later, he ...

Twenty-five years ago, on the cusp of the home video era, a drunk and speeding Rodney King led officers on a pursuit that ended in front of George Holliday's Lake View Terrace apartment in northeast ...

Remember when Rodney King’s brutal beating by the LAPD was caught on video? The nine minutes of grainy footage put an angry national spotlight on how the LAPD treated black people. The department has ...

*Tonight (04-24-17) the family members of Rodney King, Latasha Harlins and leading South L.A activists and groups will hold a prayer vigil and moment of silence for all those who lost their lives ...

It was the summer of 1991. I was a graduate student at UC Berkeley. The Rodney King beating had happened a few months earlier. There had just been riots, unrelated ...

Rodney King became much more than a man; he was a cultural marker who alerted America to the police state that existed. His beating and treatment at the hands of the police sparked the Los Angeles ...

Rodney King’s family held a memorial service on Saturday at the Forest Lawn Hall of Liberty in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Reuters reported. King was found by his fiancée on June 17 at the ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Opening statements are scheduled to begin on Monday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, a former officer with the Minneapolis Police Department who has been charged with murder in ...

*Oscar winner Halle Berry bonds with Daniel Craig amid the L.A. riots in director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s “Kings” — a title that pays homage to Rodney King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other agents ...