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Five years have passed since the September 11th attacks threw Muslim society into sharp focus. San Diego is home to one of the largest Muslim communities in the United States. After 9/11, many local M

Thousands of people are gathering at Ground Zero in New York to observe the fifth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. President Bush was among those in the city to remember those lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

In New York City, a moment of silence and the ring of a bell marked the minute five years ago when the first of two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. Family members held flowers and photos of their loved ones, and took part in tearful readings of the names of the victims at the site of the attacks.

The dogs days of late summer releases may be upon us but not everything coming out at the moment is bad. Take the independent film

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War. In Spain, there are no official commemoration ceremonies. That's in keeping with the silence with which Spaniards have generally treated the war - and the Franco dictatorship that followed. But many, including now elderly children of victims, are increasingly seeking some kind of closure.

Rwanda's public school students may be allowed to study their national history for the first time since a bloody ethnic conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis in 1994 led to the killing of nearly a million Rwandans. But even if officials lift the ban, controversy about what history to teach will remain.

Don't let the title and the sunny images fool you.

A national effort to register Latino voters rolled into San Diego today. KPBS Radio's Andrew Phelps was there

Four leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang are convicted on charges of murder, conspiracy and racketeering. The verdict, delivered in a In Santa Ana, Calif., courtroom, was hailed as a victory for federal prosecutors trying to curb the gang's violent and racist activities.

, for better or worse, brought a sense of visual flair to TV in the eighties. The show served up gorgeous night shots, brought in an MTV influenced use of pop music, and dressed its stars in fashion setting soft pastels. It taught cops shows what it meant to have your colors done. If you check out the old episodes now, most of them seem badly dated, but every now and then there's a show where everything comes together with dazzling slickness. Mann followed the series with another and grittier cop show,