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All People's Celebration brings disability rights to the forefront


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Local community group Alliance San Diego hosted its annual All People's Celebration honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and KPBS spoke to keynote speaker Rebecca Cokley about issues impacting the disabled community. Next, Voice of San Diego reporter Maya Srikrishnan discusses who was left out of the recent 2020 census data despite San Diego’s growing diversity. Later, UCSF physician Dr. Lindsay Ryan on assistance for those with damaged immune systems amidst the pandemic. Later, visitors can now look through Mount Wilson Observatory telescopes in Los Angeles (for a price). Plus, a new exhibition at Art Produce in North Park reflects on the aftermath of decades of war in Laos. Finally, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., Turner Classic Movies has created a program of documentary shorts and features looking at the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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