Month: June 2020

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Should you wear a mask? (Yes.) Go to a crowded house party? (No.) Take the train to work? (It depends.) It’s hard to do the right thing when the guidance depends on whom you ask. Each nation, region and sometimes even a neighborhood has its own approach to the coronavirus. While some countries like Brazil

As protests around the world continue over police brutality and the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, change is happening across the US. This article outlines some changes taking place in public life and police departments. But it doesn’t get into the other side of everything: the conversations, self-reflection and education happening around the

It’s a common rule in Asian American households: Don’t bring home a black boyfriend or girlfriend. And it’s an order many young Asian Americans ridicule or challenge when talking with their parents. But it helps illustrate the racism and anti-blackness characteristic of some older Asian immigrants. Joyce Kang, a 30-year-old Korean American from Washington, D.C.,

At an old stone harbor in the English city of Bristol, young people gather at a bent railing by the water and peer into the murky deep. They’re looking for the defaced statue of the 17th century slave trader Edward Colston. And just maybe, they’re looking at an era gone by. Protesters last weekend wrenched

An Australian national has been sentenced to death in China after a court convicted him on charges of drug smuggling. The man, who was not identified, was sentenced Wednesday, but news of his fate was only published Saturday on the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court’s website. Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was

As the summer sun rises high in the sky, kids who have been out of school and stuck at home are itching for an escape from the pandemic-induced isolation. Most summers, freedom for kids and parents alike is typically provided by summer camps. But this year, many have been canceled or are currently on pause.

“Can’t hug my nan but I can go on Nemesis Inferno with her,” wrote one Twitter user regarding his grandmother and a popular UK rollercoaster. This zinger on the state of England’s coronavirus lockdown was repeated across social media this week as people said they were “confused” by the government’s latest easing of restrictions. It

Another person has tested positive for coronavirus after visiting the Lake of the Ozarks over Memorial Day weekend in Missouri, health officials said Friday. A Kansas resident was identified as being at the Lake of the Ozarks on Memorial Day weekend, said Elizabeth Holzschuh, an epidemiologist with the Johnson County, Kansas, Department of Health and

San Francisco has unveiled a new police reform plan with the hope of addressing structural inequities and fundamentally change the nature of policing in the city. Mayor London Breed detailed a road map for the reforms on Thursday. “If we’re going to make real significant change, we need to fundamentally change the nature of policing

The mother of an African American man who was shot and killed by a white police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina, last year has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit. Deborah Franklin is suing the city government and officer Wende Kerl, who shot Danquirs Franklin on March 25, 2019. Deborah Franklin is seeking unspecified compensatory

A New Jersey police officer was charged with two counts of assault on Wednesday after allegedly deploying pepper spray on two people “without provocation,” the Camden County Prosecutor’s office said in a press release. Ryan Dubiel, 31, a police officer with Woodlynne Police Department, was charged with two counts of simple assault, prosecutors announced. Dubiel