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    LA riots are remembered 30 years later with hope and pessimism

    LOS ANGELES — For months, Hyepin Im thought about calling Shinese Harlins-Kilgore, but she couldn’t work up the courage. Im wanted to discuss the fatal shooting of Harlins-Kilgore’s cousin, Latasha Harlins, by a Korean-born liquor store owner in 1991. A few weeks ago, Im finally called. The two women hashed out the tensions between Blacks and Koreans that erupted after the killing and the ...
    by Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times Apr 29, 2022 3 minutes
    Hyepin Im, left, president and founder of Faith and Community Empowerment, receives a shirt with an image of Latasha Harlins from Harlins’ cousin, Shinese Harlins-Kilgore, at Florence and Normandie on the 30th anniversary of the L.A. riots.

    LOS ANGELES — For months, Hyepin Im thought about calling Shinese Harlins-Kilgore, but she couldn’t work up the courage.

    Im wanted to discuss the fatal shooting of Harlins-Kilgore’s cousin, Latasha Harlins, by a Korean-born liquor store owner in 1991.

    A few weeks ago, Im finally called. The two women hashed out the tensions between Blacks and Koreans that erupted after the killing and the light punishment the store owner received.

    Those tensions helped

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