Los Angeles Archives - Public Seminar

Podcast

What’s Happening in Los Angeles?

Episode 8

June 24, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

Our guest speakers are from UCLA School of Law’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy: Ahilan Arulanantham, professor from practice and faculty co-director, and Talia Inlander, the Center’s deputy director.

Activism

If Eviction Is Personal for Us, It Should Be Personal for Our Landlords Too

A conversation on Abolish Rent

March 21, 2025 • by Gabriela Rendón, Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis

How do we remake our cities for the people who actually live in them? Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis, two cofounders of the largest tenants' union in the country, propose an answer in their new book, Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (Haymarket, 2024). In November 2024, the authors and ...

If Eviction Is Personal for Us, It Should Be Personal for Our Landlords Too

Activism

Social Justice Is More Important Than Social Distance

Why a researcher who understands the health consequences of mass gatherings is in the streets fighting racism

June 19, 2020 • by Miranda Yaver

My first political memory was watching officers of the Los Angeles Police Department beating Rodney King on television. I did not fully comprehend what I was watching at 5 years old, though I sensed that it was unjust. Nearly three decades later, braving coronavirus and angry about police brutality against people ...

Social Justice Is More Important Than Social Distance

Feature

Is Alex Israel for Real?

Sun, sincerity and simulacra in SPF-18

April 2, 2018 • by Nicola Sayers

The campy, nostalgic, Hollywood-inspired works of young(ish) artist Alex Israel would not be out of place as the scenery for a nineties-California-themed party, yet they regularly sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars – sometimes more – and he has had solo exhibitions in prestigious galleries globally. Israel’s first major ...

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Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part I

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 20, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the first segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles leading up to the brutal beating of Rodney King. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University ...