SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE
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.
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.
“L.A. Protest Past & Present: From the Watts Rebellion to the Black Lives Matter Movement Today”, hosted by the USC Annenberg Center. With a special appearance by Norman Lear. Attendees will be able to buy the books at 50% off from Verso Books. Click here for the Youtube video.
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, authors of Set The Night On Fire: Los Angeles In The Sixties, are kicking off the DSA-LA Political Education Committee’s Night School Series: Lost Angles with a discussion about the working-class radicals who fought the Los Angeles Police Department and the city economic and political elite in the 1960s. This event is the…