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Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 6 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovers the roots of comedians Bob Odenkirk and Iliza Shlesinger two very funny people whose family trees brim with dramatic stories, introducing them to relatives who took great risks to overcame enormous hardships.

Psychologists say all of us can experience vicarious trauma when we bear witness to police brutality by watching what happened to Tyre Nichols and countless others like him. Then, we’ll hear about a new women’s shelter that opened last week on the site of the former San Diego downtown library. It is being run by the National Alliance on Mental illness for San Diego and Imperial Counties. Next, San Diego is changing course dramatically on how it handles the ticketing and towing of vehicles after an audit. Then, some states are paying finder's fees to people who help bring in new recruits for the U.S. National Guard. Finally, we speak to Jason Magabo Perez, San Diego’s new poet laureate about poetry and community.

Clean-up crews were working Sunday to clear streets of mud and debris so the city of San Diego can make necessary repairs following last week's storm.

Nearly two years after the Beijing Winter Olympics, an international sports tribunal says Russian Kamila Valieva "committed an anti-doping rule violation." The U.S. could now receive a gold medal.

UC San Diego’s Kimberly Prather is being honored by the National Academy of Sciences for her work in atmospheric chemistry. The honor recognized her efforts to understand aerosol particles and for her public guidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

California’s Department of Health Care Services created two, free mental health apps to help kids, teens and young adults to better manage their mental health.

A teacher at a public school near Houston has a secret classroom bookshelf largely made up of challenged titles. Many of the books deal with race, sex and gender.

The second album from Radiohead offshoot The Smile is very good. But can its singer ever transcend his role in his revolutionary other band?

Their fight comes as the city of San Diego’s Emergency COVID-19 tenant protections are set to expire.

A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría’s poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena (Mia Maestro) bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a wave of family secrets. This shocking return sends her widowed husband into turmoil and prompts their daughter Cecilia (Leonor Varela) to return home to the family’s dairy farm with her own children. Magdalena’s presence reverberates among her family, instigating fits of laughter and despair in equal measure with all but Cecilia’s eldest child, who finds much-needed comfort in their grandmother’s love and unconditional understanding during a time of transition. A lyrical rumination on family, nature, renewal, and resurrection, The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future is an ambitious proposal for acceptance and healing, suggesting that the dead return when they are most needed. Click here for more information about show times.