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Zama school gives helping hand to foreign students struggling with Japanese life
A public high school in Kanagawa Prefecture is providing a safety net to foreign students who face difficulties in their day-to-day lives, helping them with everything from the Japanese language to addressing family issues and preparing them for self-sufficiency. Sagami Koyokan High School, in the ...
U.S. top court weighs whether GOP-drawn Virginia electoral maps diluted black vote
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday wrestled for the second time over whether Republican legislators in Virginia drew electoral districts in the state in a way that unlawfully diluted the clout of black voters. The high court heard arguments in an appeal by the Republican-led ...
Black editor of paper that urged revival of Ku Klux Klan resigns in Alabama
A black woman who took over the helm of a small-town Alabama newspaper that recently called for the Ku Klux Klan to "ride again" has stepped down after a few weeks, citing interference from the newspaper's owner. Elecia R. Dexter told The New York Times ...
After New Zealand massacre, Trump downplays white nationalism threat
U.S. President Donald Trump played down any threat posed by racist white nationalism on Friday after the gunman accused of the New Zealand mosque massacre called him "a symbol of renewed white identity." Trump, whose previous responses to the movement have drawn scrutiny, expressed sympathy ...
California police racial profiling report seen offering unrealistically small numbers
California's first-in-the-nation attempt to track racial profiling complaints against police produced numbers so unrealistically small that the board overseeing the tally wants departments to make changes to encourage more people to come forward. The panel's most recent report found 17 percent of California's law enforcement ...
Nine policemen killed in attack in Myanmar's violence-plagued Rakhine state
Nine policemen have been killed in a militant attack in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, police said Sunday, as tensions ratchet up in a state riven by ethnic and religious conflict. A bloody military crackdown in 2017 forced some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims over the border into ...
China is defending its often-criticized rule in Tibet 60 years after the Dalai Lama fled into exile amid an uprising against Chinese control, saying those who question its policies are merely biased. The official Xinhua News Agency said in an editorial dated Saturday that economic ...
Capping a yearlong project by the folks at the dating app Tinder and tech activist group Emojination, the Unicode Consortium has approved new multiracial emoji for characters technically referred to as people "holding hands." A new "gender-inclusive" couple emoji was also approved among 230 ...
Portrait of George Washington's enslaved chef Hercules is someone else, experts find
A portrait long thought to be of George Washington's enslaved chef, who cooked for the former president at Mount Vernon and Philadelphia before escaping, is actually not of Hercules, and isn't even of a chef, art experts concluded after a two-year study. Experts who gathered ...
Neo-Nazi group's leader is black man who vows to dissolve it
One of America's largest neo-Nazi groups appears to have an unlikely new leader: a black activist who has vowed to dismantle it. Court documents filed Thursday suggest James Hart Stern wants to use his new position as director and president of the National Socialist Movement ...
Rio de Janeiro's Carnival kicks off; some revelers target Bolsonaro
Rio de Janeiro's world-famous Carnival officially began with street parties and revelry Friday amid expectations the first such celebration since Jair Bolsonaro took office would target the far-right president known for offending the LGBT community and minorities. At Carmelitas, one of Rio's most traditional street ...
'Empty words': Rights groups say Japan's bill recognizing Ainu as indigenous group falls short
Rights groups criticize the government over a recent bill recognizing the Ainu people for the first time as “an indigenous group.”
