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NPR’s Tiny Desk is celebrating the month with nine performances by Black women artists. Plus, KPBS' favorite local submissions to the Tiny Desk Contest.

Get an exclusive after-hours tour of the Comic-Con Museum for anyone who attends the talk! Join inewsource Pulitzer Prize-winning Cartoonist Steve Breen and Conrad Prebys Foundation CEO Grant Oliphant as they discuss cartooning, art and their place in community storytelling. Grant’s father, Pat Oliphant, was the legendary cartoonist who made Steve want to become an editorial cartoonist, creating a continued legacy of graphic art and storytelling that has won awards and engaged San Diegans for decades. This event, moderated by inewsource CEO & Editor Lorie Hearn, is an exclusive event for inewsource members. inewsource is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom dedicated to improving lives in the San Diego region and beyond through impactful, data-based investigative and accountability journalism. Tickets include lite fare and the opportunity to explore Comic-Con Museum after the event. Free parking is available immediately adjacent to the museum's front and back in the Pan American Plaza Lot and the Federal Lot, as well as throughout Balboa Park. For more information visit: inewsource.org

Burn All Books and Particle FM are bringing a DIY ethos to a big festival of zines, music and art at the San Diego Central Library this weekend.

President Ronald Reagan laid the rhetorical foundations for the National Endowment for Democracy in a 1982 speech to the British Parliament. Support for its creation in Congress was bipartisan.

In this almost perfect little film, Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play cousins who reconnect in Poland to honor the memory of their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.

On the second Sunday of every month, the museum offers free admission to all visitors. No reservations are required for Second Sunday admission. Visit: https://mcasd.org/ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego on Facebook

Annual trends reports from YouTube, TikTok and Spotify reveal how fans had an outsize impact on entertainment, culture and politics this year.

Cuanto más recurran los estudiantes a los 'chatbots' de Inteligencia Artificial, menos posibilidades tendrán de desarrollar relaciones en la vida real que puedan conducir a empleos y al éxito posterior.

Comic-Con International and San Diego Public Library have teamed up for the Comic Conference for Educators and Librarians (CCEL). This FREE five-day conference will take place at the San Diego Central Library during Comic-Con® from July 24-28, and will explore the role comics play in promoting education and literacy for all ages. Those in the library and education fields are invited to learn creative and exciting ways to incorporate comics and other popular arts into their work. Through presentations and panel discussions, the Conference hopes to engage the community and promote comics as a medium for learning. Seating is not guaranteed and is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration is for interest only and does not guarantee a seat. Join us on Wednesday for Teaching and Learning with Comics: An Interactive Workshop This is a hands-on workshop for anyone looking to use comics in a classroom. Peter Carlson (Green Dot Public Schools), Susan Kirtley (Portland State University), and Antero Garcia (Stanford University) guide educators in curating powerful classroom curricula, from mini-lessons to complete units, that incorporate the medium of comics. Participants engage in activities that model how to develop superhero readers and writers in K–12 classrooms. Comic-Con badge-holders with valid single same-day or four-day badges are welcome to attend and are not required to register. In addition to CCEL, San Diego Public Library hosts themed San Diego Comic-Con programming leading up to and through the days of the conference. Please visit our website for more information. Full Schedule: Wednesday, July 24 from 4 - 6 p.m. Thursday, July 25 from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Friday, July 26 from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday, July 27 from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday, July 28 from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

European Union leaders have approved a major spending package on defense, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — a non-EU leader invited to the summit — received a warm welcome.