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Get a glimpse of the nation's possible futures by following Southern California’s stories. Understand the complex issues that underlie the region’s multicultural neighborhoods. See how global becomes local, and local translates to global.

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The L.A. River was once the foundation of life in the area, long before there was a California or even a United States. Today, efforts are under way to return its role as a vital component of our city's landscape.
Climate Change: Rising Cost
Tap into the science, solutions and solidarity of climate activists championing for change.
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The California ballot propositions are notoriously confusing, with complicated backstories and wording that can be ambiguous. This year, KCET is back with our California proposition explainer videos and cheat sheets, bringing you all the information you need to vote on the props in the November Elections.
Reflect on the country’s history with racial injustice, the long shadow of slavery and what it means to be Black in America. Los Angeles also has a significant legacy of celebrating the Black experience through the arts. Learn more on Black Arts Matter.
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While the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted health disparities in the Black community in recent years, racial inequalities in health and wellness have been an ongoing issue for centuries. Delve into stories that address these injustices and discover the work being done to reclaim power and create spaces of resiliency, healing and vitality.
Black History Month 2023
Hosted by Public Enemy’s Chuck D, KCET invites you to discover Hip Hop’s unique narrative of struggle, triumph and resistance in "Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World." Follow the journey of resilience in the opening of MudTown, a Los Angeles urban garden in 10 Days in Watts. And, in Independent Lens: The Picture Taker, learn more about the vibrant and secret life of Black History rights photographer, and FBI informant, Ernest Withers. 
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Through collective stories, the LGBTQ+ community reveals a great diversity of perspectives and experiences that make it rich and inspiring. After decades of fighting for freedom to love, live and be, there are still challenges to individual expression and identity. And even though we still can’t gather, the LGBTQ+ experience also reveals a wide range of examples of progress, acceptance and reasons to celebrate Pride at home and around the world.
Throughout history until today, women have been shaping our world and connecting the community with each other in essential ways. Explore their crucial work and their inspiring stories.
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President Joe Biden’s official recognition of the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire more than a century ago has been greeted by celebrations from Armenian Americans. While the nation has yet to feel the repercussions of such a bold statement on our geopolitical relations with Turkey, it is a time to remember the contributions of the Armenian diaspora in the nation’s socio-cultural life from art, music, food and politics. Learn more about the genocide and how the experiences of the Armenian diaspora has shaped the nation.
Entry way for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Since its inception, the Olympics has come to mean more than just a worldwide show of physical excellence and sportsmanship. See how the world is responding to the Olympic Games in the time of a pandemic and how Los Angeles navigated its many Olympic turns over the last century.
Taylor Yard (large) | Courtney Cecale
The first storyline under the year-long KCETLink/LENS partnership focuses on the past, present and possible futures of Taylor Yard, an undeveloped and still-contaminated site adjacent to the L.A. River.
Children at the Great L.A. River CleanUp. | Courtesy of Friends of the Los Angeles River
Global warming is the biggest collective issue we face today. But as millions of California’s acres burn and West Coast sea levels rise, we know how close to home the issue is. Thankfully, there are many fighters among us who are taking steps to make incremental changes that result in big, hopeful solutions — from restoring our backyard river to writing environmentally-focused policy and even taking on big polluters. Together, we can follow their example, get to work and change our future for the better.
COVID-19 isn't just a two-week disease. It can sometimes have far-reaching affects long after this window of initial sickness is done. They are the stories of long-haulers. This series was originally written for COVID-19 Survivor Diaries, a project by photographer and videographer Morgana Wingard. Through portraits and first-person accounts, the project documents the world's shared experience of the global COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of people who survived.
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All freedoms are hard-won. Discover the labor pains of birthing a nation. Find your stake in the struggle.
Kid looks up, framed between someone else's sneakers, at a George Floyd protest | Trevor Jackson
"I WAS THERE" is about telling a great story. This series of first-person accounts break current and historical events down to human scale, carefully taking the viewer behind some of Southern California’s biggest headlines.
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