FROM LOS ANGELES TO FERGUSON: 25 YEARS AFTER RODNEY KING RIOTS, ‘THERE'S A SOUTH CENTRAL IN EVERY CITY AND EVERY STATE’

Josh Sides, a professor at California State University at Northridge who wrote L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present, estimates that South Central is now about 75 percent Latino. Though he cautions against the misconception that 04/29/92 drove blacks out of South Central, he acknowledges that “the riots definitely accelerated that.”

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