Pardeep Singh Kaleka is the author of “The Gift of Our Wounds" and helped found the organization Serve 2 Unite, which bring together young people from different religious and cultural backgrounds. His father was among the victims killed at the 2012 Sikh temple shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

Dave Maass, a researcher for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, explains why the city passed the first major ban on facial recognition technology and what's next in the surveillance debate.

Twin brothers Damien and CJ Hobgood have ranked among the best surfers on Earth. They had highs and lows together and apart.

We talked to Damien about what he learned from surfing, his favorite local spots and the new Hobgood documentary 'And Two If By Sea."

The film challenge was straightforward: create honest, thought-provoking works that give voice to the migrants who have arrived at the border. Kayla Mulholland, a part-time social worker and visual anthropologist, directed one of 15 short films about migrants in Tijuana that will be shown as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. Her film, "Platicas," centers on a conversation about dreams of living in America as told by migrant children.

What does it take to make a young Republican Marine switch to the Democrat Party? And then go on to lead it? Politics, of course.

In 2008, as a gay service member Will Rodriguez-Kennedy was honorably discharged from the military under the ‘don’t ask don’t tell” policy. He experienced a period of homelessness and says he ultimately felt that Democrats were more focused on veterans’ issues than Republicans.

Now, he’s been elected chairman of the San Diego Democratic Party. He’s 31.

We invited him to join The Conversation with Abby & Luis to talk about his plans for leading the party, his thoughts on the growing trend of young voters registering with no party preference and what Democrats have planned for the 2020 election.

The emergence last week of a racist photo on a 1984 yearbook page for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam — with one man in blackface and another in a KKK robe — may force him to resign.

So we reached out to someone who’s been talking about this in his classroom at San Diego State University, African Studies professor Ajani Brown. Before we reached out to him, he had already discussed the Virginia stories with his students and before the Virgina stories even broke, he had already covered the use of blackface in his classroom.

In our discussion with Brown, we talked about the history of blackface, the impact these photos can have on a community and the state of black art and imagery in 2019 when this year’s Oscar contenders include Green Book, If Beale Street Could Talk, Black Klansman and Black Panther.

Scooter Removal LLC is the brainchild of John Heinkel and Dan Borelli. They say their mission is to help property owners and businesses deal with the of e-scooters and dockless bicycles parked around San Diego. Listen to the story as to how they launched the business and the legal threats that nearly made them kill the business idea.

On the eve of the third annual Women's March, the organization faced turmoil at the national level over accusations of antisemitism. As a result, the San Diego's chapter of the Women's March has distanced itself from the national organization. Two organizers in San Diego tell us why the Women's March is still worth attending.

San Diego County saw what's possibly the first fatal collision involving an e-scooter. A number of other injuries from people riding e-scooters has also raised alarms for cities on how to make streets safer. Urban bicycle advocates Colin Parent and Andy Hanshaw spoke to The Conversation on what they think will make streets safer for e-scooter riders and whether another fatal encounter can be avoided.

The Trump administration’s immigration policy and family separation at the border became one of the biggest news stories of 2018 and it’s still an ongoing issue for the country with so many migrant families and asylum seekers presenting themselves at the U.S.-Mexico border every day. We talked to the lead attorney in the case for the ACLU, Lee Gelernt, about the case.