Akilah Sherrill's remembers the day in 1992 when the Bloods and Crips gangs in his Watts neighborhood agreed to a ceasefire.
We had a barbecue.
It was like it became a family reunion.
I mean, we had a three decade war, you know, so the release was just extraordinary.
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The U.S.
and Iran have open talks today in Oman.
NPR's Jackie Northam reports some of the negotiations concern Iran's nuclear program.
There were plenty of changes to location and time and which countries would participate ahead of these negotiations in Oman's capital city,
Muscat.
On the table for discussion is Iran's nuclear program,
its support for proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas, and limiting its arsenal of ballistic missiles.
These are the first official talks the U.S.
and Iran have held since the U.S.
bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities last June.
Iran is in a weaker position than a year ago Israel devastated its air defenses last summer.
The U.S.
has been building up its naval and air defense systems as a show of force in the region.
Jackie Northam, NPR News.