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Caused by. Police brutality. Institutional racism against African Americans [1] [2] Reaction to the murder of George Floyd. Economic, racial and social inequality [2] This is a list of protests that took place in Los Angeles County, California following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while in police custody.
The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising [4] [5]) were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, United States, during April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four ...
Recent national conferences of Students for Justice in Palestine have been held at Columbia University (2011), University of Michigan (2012), Stanford University (2013), Tufts University (2014), San Diego State University (2015), George Mason University (2016), University of Houston (2017), University of California–Los Angeles (2018 and 2023 ...
Hundreds who attended annual graduation Thursday at Harvard College, Harvard University’s undergraduate college, staged a walkout to decry its disqualification of 13 students involved in earlier ...
2007 – The Los Angeles May Day mêlée, May 1, Los Angeles, California; 2009 – Riots against BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant, January 7, 120 arrested, Oakland, California; 2009 – Akron riots, March 14, 2009, 7 arrested; and July 2009, unknown number arrested, Akron, Ohio
On April 28, counter-protests were held at MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). On April 30, approximately 300 protesters were arrested at Columbia University and City College of New York ; [109] and pro-Israel counter-protesters attacked the UCLA campus occupation , [110] [111] [112] The ...
Sumner Redstone graduated from Harvard Law School in 1947 and went on to become a media magnate, serving as executive chairman of both CBS and Viacom until February 2016. In 2014, he donated $10 ...
The Los Angeles group held a 15-car motorcade (which has been identified as the nation's first gay pride parade) and activists held pickets in the other cities. [30] [31] The protest grew out of the first meeting of the organization that would become the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations .