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>> go home! >> it's like a bomb. we're sitting on a bomb. >> you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you'll get. >> this is a revolution. >> should people be frightened? >> i think people should wake up. it's 1991. wake up. >> we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it's high time we all began talking with each other. >> no justice, no peace! >> can we all get along? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath...

>> i asked if he was worried the movie would not appeal to a broad audience. >> if it's good enough, people are going to come. the minute black artists start thinking about crossover, they start diluting the work, watering it down, and the work suffers. >> when we look at the john singletons and the spikes, all the way across the board, this became the era where we took charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons, and telling our own stories expressed either in music or in theater or in cinema. >> in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding o...

>> in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna devear smith. and she's taken the riot and turned it into theater. >> twilight bay, that's my name. >> twilight is 1 of 26 people deavere becomes in this one woman tour de force. that wasn't us over looting in the koreans. >> that was the mexicans over there. that wasn't us. >> i thought of the los angeles riots as like this explosion of like a trunk or a house that exploded and everything's all over the place. then...

Charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons and telling our own stories expressed either in music or in theater or in cinema. >> in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna devear smith. and she's taken the riot and turned it into theater. >> twilight bay, that's my name. >> twilight is 1 of 26 people deavere becomes in this one woman tour de force. >> that was the mexicans over there. that wasn't us. >> i thought of the los angeles riots as like this expl...

Became the era where we took charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons and telling our own stories expressed either in music or in theater or in cinema. >> in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna devear smith. and she's taken the riot and turned it into theater. >> twilight bay, that's my name. >> twilight is 1 of 26 people deavere becomes in this one woman tour de force. >> that was the mexicans over there. that wasn't us. >> i thought of the los an...