Poet, Wanda Coleman
Wanda Coleman grew up in Los Angeles in Watts in the 1960s. She witnessed the 1965 Watts Riots, and the 1992 Rodney King riot. We invited her into the KCRW studios to share some of her poetry, which we are also playing on air this week as we look back on the civil unrest. “The Riot Inside Me” was published in 2003 and Coleman says she wrote it in response to the Watts Riot and the Rodney King Riot. Take a listen, below.
Caitlin Shamberg is the Which Way LA blog editor, and also, a producer for KCRW's "To the Point" and "Which Way, L.A.?" Before joining KCRW - her hometown radio station - she lived in Brooklyn and braved eight years of brutal New York winter. She's psyched to be back in LA, where she lives with her husband and toddler, and without her ankle length down coat.
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