Sybil Wilkes discusses today's headlines including Juneteenth, Rodney King's death and more.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rodney King's fiancee said in a frantic 911 call that she threw a shovel to try to rouse him after she woke to the sounds of a fall and found him at the bottom of his swimming pool. Cynthia Kelley repeatedly implored authorities to hurry to King's Rialto, Calif., home early […]
Rodney King’s best friend, Damon Feldman claims that King wanted to break up with his fiancée weeks prior to his death. Feldman is one of several friends reporting that they don’t believe his fiancée’s story. According to TMZ reports, Feldman is pleading with police to look deeper into the account from King’s fiancée, Cynthia Kelley. […]
As most of us know, Rodney King was found dead in the pool at his home early Sunday morning. As authorities claim no foul play and a formal autopsy will not be completed for weeks, many are asking what will King’s legacy be. I believe that King will be remembered as a symbol, in fact […]
TMZ is reporting that two of Rodney King’s close friends aren’t buying his fiancée’s story about what happened leading up to his death and have gone to the police. Cynthia Kelley, who was engaged to King, says she was awakened by the sound of him banging on the window of their home just after 5 […]
Sybil Wilkes discusses the today's headlines including the Rodney King death, the Sandusky Trial, President Obama, and more.
Listen to Nikki Woods' exclusive interview with the late Rodney King.
It was all on tape and ultimately changed the way America witnessed and reported crime and official misbehavior, documenting it on video cameras and, today, camera phones. But at the time, the videotape of Rodney King’s beating by Los Angeles police did little more than spark black fear of and anger over brutality and racial […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, has died, his publicist said Sunday. King was 47. King's fiancee, Cynthia Kelly, called 911 around 5:25 a.m., said Capt. Randy DeAnda. […]
Twenty years later, Rodney King's simple yet profound question still lingers, from the street where Trayvon Martin died all the way to the White House: "Can we all get along?" Spoken as fires of rage and frustration wrecked huge swaths of Los Angeles, the plea distilled centuries of racial strife into a challenge — and […]
Two decades have passed since outraged blacks flared in anger after an all-white jury presumed that four Caucasian policemen–video taped while brutally beating Rodney King, a young black motorist–were not guilty. The nationally televised uprising, usually described as a “riot” by mainstream pundits, journalists and academics, began deep in the black community, on April 29, […]
