SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE
On the 50th Anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium (1970), historian Jon Wiener, co-author of Set the Night On Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, will discuss the Chicano movements of the sixties and their relevance today–along with artist Harry Gamboa Jr., Cal Arts faculty member and a high school activist in LA in the sixties, and UCR…
Jon Wiener, co-author of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, will be in a live conversation with Brenda Stevenson, author of The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots, to discuss the Protest in LA from the Sixties to Today. Watch the recording here.
Jon Wiener was interviewed by Librarian Daryl Maxwell for the Los Angeles Public Library blog about his writing process and his latest book co-authored with Mike Davis. You can read the whole interview here.
Jon Wiener and Mike Davis published an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times on the history and future of protests at the DNC. “With the Democratic National Convention meeting virtually this year, the fate of another longstanding political tradition is also in jeopardy.” Read the full op-ed here.
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, co-authors of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, will be in a live conversation with Erin Aubry Kaplan and Danny Widener to discuss the upcoming 55th anniversary of the 1965 Watts Uprising hosted by Skylight Books. Know more about this event here. Please note: This event will…
Listen to Harold Meyerson and Melina Abdullah in conversation with Mike Davis and Jon Wiener on the 55th anniversary of the Watts uprising, as they discuss Los Angeles in the sixties as a hotbed of political and social upheaval, and its lessons for the social justice movements of today. Watch the recording here.
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, authors of Set the Night on Fire L.A. in the Sixties, will be in a live conversation with Robin Kelley who is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA and author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. Note that August 11 is the…
Author Jon Wiener, Professor Emeritus at UCI, was profiled in the UCI Humanties Magazine. Read Megan Cole’s piece titled “Revolutionary Los Angeles” here.
The Nation had a special event with the authors on 7/20/2020. “Award-winning radical historian of Southern California Mike Davis and Nation contributing writer Jon Wiener trace the city’s turbulent era of rebellion and police brutality and show how it connects us to the present moment with people out in the streets again. This special event is free of charge but pre-registration…
This episode features an interview with Jon Wiener regarding his new book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, which he co-authored with Mike Davis. The book provides a comprehensive history of the civil rights movement in Los Angeles during the 1960s. Listen to the interview here.