“K-TOWN ’92” Co-producer Helped with LA Riots/Uprising Clean Up Effort as a Child
“Looking back, I see an uprising, but that is not how it was portrayed on TV.”
LA Riots
On Bringing Latino perspectives to “K-TOWN ’92”
“Latinos were the majority of the initial victims of crowd violence, a third of those killed, and half of those arrested. One third to one half of the businesses looted in the city were Latino owned.”
Grace Lee’s ‘K-TOWN ‘92’ Tells a Different Story of the LA Riots
To Lee, the days of unrest also brought Korean America to mainstream consciousness like nothing before it. NOW STREAMING ON PBS!