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Pictured are two of the most finely made handmade dolls in the Black Dolls exhibit at the Mingei International Museum.

Handmade Black Dolls Exhibit Offers Insight Into Past And Present

How important is it for children to have dolls that look like them? An exhibit of handmade black dolls at the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park offers some historical insight into this question.

Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" caught Oscar's eye with his portrait of a young boy who grows up before our eyes. Ellar Coltrane shot over 12 years with Linklater to make the film. Will it walk away with the top prize on Sunday?

Midday Movies: Handicapping The 87th Academy Awards

Film critics evaluate this year's Oscar race

Lunar New Year Tet Festival Celebrates Vietnamese Heritage

San Diego's 10th Annual Tet Festival takes place in Mira Mesa this weekend.

Kids' Solo Playtime Unleashes 'Free-Range' Parenting Debate

A number of parents have made news in recent months for letting children walk or play outside on their own. But laws on when kids are allowed to be by themselves are vague.

Black Slugs And 'Black Holes,' An Artful Portrait Of Depression

Jasmine Warga's debut young adult novel My Heart and Other Black Holes follows two teens who make a suicide pact, in a carefully layered character study that sometimes stumbles on the details.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a Pashtun. That ethnic group accounts for between 40 percent and 50 percent of Afghanistan's population. The Taliban and many top officials are also Pashtun.

Afghans Confront Sensitive Issue Of Ethnicity

Afghanistan is set to issue new national IDs that will have a person's ethnicity embedded in it electronically — but not printed on it. That's renewed debate over a divisive issue in a country made up of many different groups.

Before ISIS attacked it, the northern Iraqi town of Snuny had a population of nearly 150,000 — a mix of Kurdish Muslims and Yazidis, who belong to a religious ethnic minority in this region. Only about 10,000 have returned after Kurdish fighters reclaimed the city.

ISIS May Be Gone, But Life Has Yet To Return To Normal In Northern Iraq

The remote town of Snuny was recently liberated from ISIS. But aside from Kurdish and Yazidi militia men, very few people have ventured back. There are no services, and the ISIS threat is still real.

A Berkeley Student Comes Home In 'Braggsville,' With Consequences

T. Geronimo Johnson's new novel follows a young man from a small Georgia town who comes home from college with a multicultural crew of friends, and plans for a disruptive (if well-intentioned) prank.

The temple of Sharfadin in Northern Iraq is 800 years old, and followers of the Yazidi religion consider it one of the most sacred sites in the world. Though ISIS tried to destroy it, a small group of Yazidi fighters kept the shrine standing.

Outmanned And Outgunned, Fighters Defend Yazidi Shrine Against ISIS

Led by a celebrated Yazidi fighter, a small band of Kurdish peshmerga survived a months-long ISIS onslaught. Unlike others in Syria and Iraq, this sacred place still stands, nearly unscathed.

Outmanned And Outgunned, Fighters Defend Yazidi Shrine Against ISIS

Led by a celebrated Yazidi fighter, a small band of Kurdish peshmerga survived a months-long ISIS onslaught. Unlike others in Syria and Iraq, this sacred place still stands, nearly unscathed.

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