Minority vs. minority; Disputes often grow out of 'everyday life'; Economic disparity sows strife
May 23, 1990
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The melting pot has turned into a cauldron.
In Brooklyn, a black mob attacks three Vietnamese men as other blacks boycott two Korean groceries. In Chicago, Arab merchants are accused of exploiting black customers. In Compton, Calif., a growing Hispanic population struggles with the black majority for control of the city's schools.
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L.A. Police Chief Daryl Gates: 'I don't expect to run away'; The pressure is on to fix department
July 10, 1991
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LOS ANGELES - Racism, sexism, excessive force and lax discipline plague the USA's second-largest police department, and changes are needed - starting at the top.
That's the bottom line from the Christopher Commission report released Tuesday. The work of the independent, highly respected panel is considered the most important document in LAPD history and perhaps a blueprint for police departments nationwide.
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Phoenix Asians on alert; Massacre fuels fears of racism
Aug. 13, 1991
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Phoenix Asian community fears intensified Monday as police continued reporting no suspects or motives in the massacre of nine Phoenix Buddhists.
Maricopa County Sheriff Tom Agnos said there's "no indication at all" of a racist crime. But details about the methodical murders, a recent increase in racist incidents and persistent speculation that anti-Asian graffiti was found in the temple are transforming Phoenix's shock into dread.
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Idaho community routs racism; The answer: United front against hate
Sept. 6, 1991
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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Five years ago, on a concrete road embankment, a black swastika and an ominous message were spray-painted amid the punk-rock graffiti.
"Kill Marshall Mend," it said.
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Segregation: Walls between us; USA at home: Streets still isolate races
Nov. 11, 1991
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In 1968, after the cities had burned and Martin Luther King Jr. had died, Congress passed the first national law against racial discrimination in housing.
President Johnson assured a nation staggered by the violence that "the only real road to progress is through the process of the law."
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Nation pays tribute to King; Violence mars day in Denver
Jan. 21, 1992
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The memory of Martin Luther King Jr. was celebrated Monday in ceremonies across the nation stressing his non-violent approach to social change.
But a demonstration by white supremacists in Denver touched off a stormy confrontation that led to arrests of 21 opponents of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Hate groups increase - as do their crimes
Feb. 20, 1992
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A record 346 white supremacy groups are operating in the USA, up an alarming 27% in the past year, the Southern Poverty Law Center says.
Also up for the fourth year in a row: hate crimes, from murders to cross-burnings, which doubled to 101 last year.
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L.A. brutality trial starts today; Case pries 'Pandora's box' open
Feb. 5, 1992
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LOS ANGELES - The official record will show that on this day in history four city police officers went to trial for the beating of an unarmed motorist named Rodney King.
But for millions of police-wary citizens here, all of southern California law enforcement is on trial.
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Japanese-Americans are jittery; Economic woes revive prejudices
Feb. 25, 1992
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TIBURON, Calif. - In her paper one day, Joyce Kami saw a photo of an auto dealer inviting customers to bash a Japanese car. Then she found a story about Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa calling Americans lazy.
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Verdict: Not guilty; 'It's not fair. It's not right.'; 'Verdict will never blind what we saw'
Apr. 30, 1992
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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - An entire nation saw the videotape of four white cops savagely beating a black motorist in the dark of night on a wide Los Angeles boulevard.
But a jury acquitted the four Wednesday, deciding that seeing is not always believing.
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Crisis in L.A.; City under siege; All over L.A.: 'It's madness, pure madness'
May 1, 1992
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LOS ANGELES - At the airport Hertz counter Thursday, new arrivals kept asking which parts of the city they should stay away from.
But the clerks had no real answer. The truth was that on this day in the nation's second largest city, no place seemed genuinely safe.
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Message to Bush: Urban policy is back on the agenda
May 7, 1992
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LOS ANGELES - When President Bush tours this riot-scarred city today, the nation - riveted first by a sickening 81-second video, then by horrific images of exploding hatred - will turn to him for answers.
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Sister Souljah: Clinton gave me a bad rap
June 17, 1992
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Rapper Sister Souljah fired back at Democratic candidate Bill Clinton Tuesday, dismissing his charges that she promotes racial hatred and saying she's been misunderstood.
Clinton "lacks moral wherewithal, intellectual comprehension, spiritual depth and is about as believable as Pinocchio ," she said after a New York press conference.
