With the Coachella Music & Arts Festival less than two months away, two transgender siblings claim festival staff wouldn't let them use bathrooms reflecting their gender identities last year. KVCR's Danielle Fox reports the ACLU of Southern California is threatening legal action if festival organizers do not improve their bathroom policy. During last year’s Coachella festival, Navi Huskey, who identifies as a trans woman, was stopped by Coachella security when trying to use the women’s

Black Panther and Into The Spider-verse brought comics about people of color to the big screen this year. But a UCR professor says this kind of attention is exciting, but overdue. KVCR's Isel Cuapio has more. Black Panther and Into the Spiderverse brought comics about people of color to the big screen this year. But a UCR professor says this kind of attention is exciting but overdue. I spoke with John Jennings, who’s the editor of a comics publishing line called Megascope which focuses on

Hundreds of people displaced by November's Camp Fire gathered last week in Paradise to formally start the process of redesigning their town. As Capital Public Radio's Pauline Bartolone found, fire survivors saw opportunities to make their community better than it was before.

Friday March 1st marks the 46th anniversary of the realease of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. With that in mind, this edition of KVC-Arts is ALL Pink Floyd. David Fleming speaks with Bill Kopp, author of Reinventing Pink Floyd - From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of the Moon. This is a look at the time of Barrett's "departure" from the band, the group the re-discovering who and what they were, eventually becoming the band that we think of as Pink Ployd.

With the release of last month's Netflix documentary on Ted Bundy, KVCR is taking a look into the serial killer's mind. KVCR's Benjamin Purper speaks with Loma Linda psyciatrist David Puder in this report. Ted Bundy was an infamous serial killer who did most of his killing in the 70’s. He confessed to 30 homicides, but the actual number of his victims is unknown. Psychiatrist David Puder says Bundy likely had something called the Dark Triad. Puder: “The Dark Triad is a combination of three

The prolonged imprisonment of a University of Redlands student in Japan has received major media attention in the States, and the U.S. government is aware of the situation. So why is Julian Adame still in a Tokyo jail 9 months after his arrest on a seemingly minor infraction? KVCR News spoke with one of Adame's closest friends about his condtion and his upcoming trial. Here's KVCR's Katie Trojano with more. In May 2018 Julian Adame, A University of Redlands student, was imprisoned in Tokyo and

Many people in the Inland Empire know that the Mormon Church has a big presence in the area — with around 75,000 church members. Some might be surprised to learn that Mormon colonists established the city of San Bernardino in the mid 1800s. But why did they trek to the Inland Empire from Utah? That’s what KVCR listener Lupe Gutierrez was wondering when she asked our community reporting project, The Inland, to investigate. KVCR’s Shareen Awad took a deep dive into early IE history and has this

Another "atmospheric river" is moving over California this week. Capital Public Radio's Ezra David Romero explains what this means for the state.

Voter turnout in California among certain demograhic groups soared from the 2014 midterm election to last year's midterm election. More from KVCR' Ken Vincent.

California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia says Teach For America trainees aren't qualified to educate low-income students. So she's introduced a bill that would prohibit them from working at these vulnerable schools. Capital Public Radio's Nadine Sebai reports.