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Join us for a special live virtual event for students* with Chanel Miller author of "Know My Name: A Memoir" Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. Register now! The event is free. A link will be provided in your confirmation email and event reminders. No other registration is required. *This event is specifically designed for upper high school and college students who have read "Know My Name" and want to engage with Chanel on how you can conduct agency and use storytelling to heal from challenging circumstances. Students, educators, friends and families are all welcome. Please join KPBS and our partners for a special live virtual event with Chanel Miller, author of our 2024 One Book, One San Diego adult selection, “Know My Name: A Memoir*.” A discussion and open Q&A session, specifically designed for our student audience, will follow a brief introduction by the author. One Book, One San Diego is a partnership, led by KPBS, with the San Diego Public Library, the San Diego County Library, San Diego State University, One Book Sin Fronteras and more than 40 others. For more information about One Book, One San Diego, please visit: kpbs.org/onebook One Book One San Diego is funded by the Linden Root Dickinson Foundation, the Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation, the Payne Family Foundation, the Frieda Berlinski Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, the University of San Diego, the City of San Diego, Lloyd Pest Control.

Premieres Monday, March 24, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. "Home Court" is the coming-of-age story of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy in Southern California whose life intensifies as recruitment heats up. As she overcomes injury as well as racial and class differences between her home and private school worlds, in peer groups, and against rival schools, Ashley strives to become her own person and leave a legacy behind.

Among those fearful of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are adoptees who grew up thinking they were U.S. citizens — only to find out years later, in adulthood, they're not.

A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1300.

Monday, March 17, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Experience the powerful journey of medical students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, where a historic $1 billion donation has made tuition free. This intimate film captures their stories and the changing landscape of medicine.

Pope Leo XIV was born and raised in Chicago. He is of French, Italian and Spanish descent. He spent years working as a missionary in Peru.

Federal officials unveiled a rigorous regulatory approach to future COVID vaccines that could make it harder for many people under 65 to get immunized.

June 12th is Loving Day, a holiday that commemorates the Loving v. Virginia case, which allowed interracial marriage in all parts of the U.S. NPR readers share how the case changed their lives.

Photographer Kavya Krishna documented Indian American communities across the United States, highlighting the shared threads and regional differences.

At services on Sunday, some Catholics took particular pride in the election of the first American pontiff, who has familial ties to multiple places across the country.