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 of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna deavere smith, and she has taken the riot and turned it into theater. - twilight bey, that's my name. - twilight is one of 26 people deavere smith becomes in this one-woman tour de force. - then they said that we was over there looting in koreatown. that wasn't us. that was the mexicans over there. that wasn't us. - i thought of the los angeles riots as, like, this explosion of a-- like a trunk or a house that exploded, and everything's all over the place. then, as an artist, it's this incredible opportunity to put it together in a way that makes sense.