Clovis Honoré is president of the San Diego branch of the NAACP. The San Diego branch of the NAACP is celebrating 100 years this year and we wanted to get to know the man leading it in this era. Clovis is also San Diego State University grad. We talked about his leadership locally and how the NAACP maintained its relevance all these years.…

Lemon Grove native Lalo Alcaraz has long been an advocate for better representation of Latinos in America. Now, it's his day job. He got his start as an editorial cartoonist at San Diego State University's student newspaper The Daily Aztec before going on to create the first nationally-syndicated, politically-themed Latino daily comic strip, "La Cu…

Last November, editorial cartoonist Steve Breen began a series of trips to Tijuana, Mexico, to meet the migrants at the center of national debates on immigration and the asylum process. His drawings became an illustrated and animated series called "Drawn to America."Watch all 10 episodes of "Drawn to America," here: https://bit.ly/2ltWYZt…

Emily Skrutskie is a Los Angeles-based author of “The Abyss Surrounds Us” and its sequel, “The Edge of the Abyss,” and the stand-alone novel “Hull Metal Girls.” Her next novel, “Bonds of Brass,” will be published in the spring of 2020.Kiersten White is local to San Diego. She’s The New York Times best-selling author of numerous books for young read…

Edith Eger was 16 when her family was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. At age 90 she wrote 'The Choice' to tell her story and help others.By The San Diego Union-Tribune

Presented by http://www.mcinroy-wood.co.uk/ITV’s political editor and presenter of Peston on Sunday, Robert Peston, talks about the mess facing liberal democracy and what can be done to mend the terrible fractures in our society. He looks at what must happen to prevent democracy being subverted by technocratic geniuses with the ability to manipulat…

A live recording from the inaugural Brewin Dolphin Lecture at the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival in Melrose.The liberal order we have lived with for seventy years is coming apart at a dizzying speed. Europe is fragmenting into rival blocks with competing, often mutually hostile, visions for the future. The US has elected a protectionist ‘Ame…

In our weekly update we travel the world. To Argentina, where Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham worked as gaucho, before he co-founded the Scottish Labour party and later the Scottish National Party, to un-discovered islands with Malachy Tallack and finally to the land of the dawn-lit mountains, India's forgotten frontier, with Antonia Bolingbroke-…

Festival Director Alistair Moffat introduces events of the Borders Book Festival, taking place from 15 - 18 June at Harmony Garden in Melrose. Book your tickets at http://www.bordersbookfestival.org or call 0844 357 1060.By Borders Book Festival