Global Week in Review: Japanese 'B-Style' Youth Want to Be Black
U.S. funded HIV-project is raided in Uganda, plus more.
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Japanese 'B-Style' Youth Want to Be Black - U.S. funded HIV-project is raided in Uganda, South African musician Hugh Masekela celebrates 75th anniversary with tribute concert, plus more global news. -- Natelege Whaley (@Nateiege) A photo essay about B-Style, a sub-culture of Japanese youth who "want to be Black," has gone viral. Desire van den Berg photographed followers in Tokyo. They alter their appearance by tanning their skin to look darker, braiding their hair and wearing clothes associated with American hip-hop culture. (Photo: Metropolis TV)
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U.S. Funded HIV-Project Raided in Uganda - An HIV treatment center in Uganda was raided by police for "training youths in homosexuality." The Walter Reed Project is a U.S.-funded project and has suspended all operations temporarily since the raid after one staff member was briefly detained. (Photo: AP Photo)
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South African Musician Hugh Masekela Celebrates 75th Birthday - Happy belated birthday to South African trumpeter and vocalist Hugh Masekela. At 75 years young, he celebrated his day with Harry Belafonte and other big names at a tribute concert at the Lincoln Center in New York. (Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)
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Ceremony Marks 20th Anniversary of Rwanda Genocide - Monday April 7, marked the 20th anniversary of the 100-day genocide in Rwanda. More than one million Rwandans died from machete and gunfire attacks. "Twenty years ago today our country fell into deep ditches of darkness," said Rwanda's minister of foreign affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo, at a ceremony. "Twenty years later, today, we are a country united and a nation elevated." (Photo: AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Chad Rejects Claims Their Soldiers Killed 30 in CAR - After reports last week that Chadian soldier peacekeepers killed 30 people in an attack in Central African Republic, the country's government has rejected the claims. In response to the "defamatory" remarks, Chad plans to remove their troops from CAR. (Photo: REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)
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