As gentrification pushed blacks out of a seaside enclave, some used the Rodney King verdicts as an excuse to push back
(LA Times Books)

Not too many commutes stick out in my memory, but I will never forget the drive from downtown Los Angeles to Venice Beach the evening of April 29, 1992, hours after a Simi Valley jury acquitted four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King. Before I´d left the newsroom, I´d already...