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The Black Took Collective is a performance group composed of three award-winning LGBTQ Black poet-performers: Duriel Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Ronaldo V. Wilson. This event will consist of live writing, poetry, music, dance, drawing, film, and critical race theory presented in an engaging and lively format designed to encourage reconsideration of identity, language, and embodiment and enlist audience participation and conversation. Date | December 9 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Location | Online event The Black Took are queer post-theorists who embody intersectionality, perform and write in hybrid experimental forms, and embrace radical poetics and cutting-edge critical theory about race, gender, and sexuality, all while inviting audiences to participate and engage in the same. The Black Took Collective challenges both popular conceptions of racial identity as well as conventional artistic practices. Their performance events are unforgettable. Get your free tickets here! CSUSM Students: Free Community: Optional donation Faculty/Staff/Alumni: Optional donation  Co-sponsors: CHABSS Dean’s Office, Ethnic Studies Research Collaboratory, FMST, LTWR, WGSS For more information, please visit csusm.edu/al or email gjones@csusm.edu.

For Black History Month we are celebrating playwright August Wilson. His "Jitney" is currently on stage at the Old Globe Theatre (through Feb. 23). KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando spoke with the play's director Ruben Santiago-Hudson about Wilson's legacy and about adapting him to film.

Stream now or tune in Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Friday, July 9 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2

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Murals in San Ysidro and near Tijuana's Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura (IMAC) connect seven cross-border artists and provide critical access to art to the two communities.

Encore Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Enjoy an all-star tribute to Lionel Richie, the 2022 recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, with performances by Lionel Richie, Garth Brooks, Gloria Estefan, Miguel, Boyz II Men, Luke Bryan, Andra Day, Chris Stapleton and Yolanda Adams. Hosted by Anthony Anderson.

The study of military dependents found more than 40 percent reported low mental well-being, often because of separations and a lack of connections in their lives.

A New York judge said he will lift the contempt of court order if Donald Trump meets conditions including paying $110,000 in fines he's racked up for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena.

A good fantasy novel can really transform the world — whether it's this world or another one entirely. Here are three YA fantasy novels to transform the dog days of summer for young readers.

The Port of San Diego will continue to support efforts by the Living Coast Discovery Center to propagate an endangered bird known as the Ridgway's Rail — pledging $180,000 over the next five years, it was announced Wednesday.