A separate commemoration on Saturday at a prominent South Los Angeles church will bring together the African-American and Korean-American communities. But blight still mars South Los Angeles, where many residents struggle to find work and earn enough to live on, and many in Los Angeles think that riots are not just a thing of the past. Unemployment in South Los Angeles, the epicenter of the 1992 riots, stands at 13 percent, compared with 10 percent for all of Los Angeles County, according to the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge. In some residential blocks of South Los Angeles, storefronts that were destroyed are still vacant, highlighting the morass in the neighborhood. Watson said in an interview at his house in South Los Angeles.

Source: Egypt Independent April 29, 2017 11:37 UTC