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Pacífica (United States) (AFP) - As Dianne Finez helps her Latino and African American students through their first surf lesson, she remembers the time she first took to the waves, trying out a sport she barely even knew existed. The 20-year-old of Filipino descent grew up 30 minutes' drive from the beach in a working class neighborhood of San Francisco. "I never knew surfing was an actual thing," she told AFP. "It was also hard to get into the sport just because there's mostly white males." Finez is one of more than 2,000 young people who have been introduced to the waves by City Surf Project...
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Azusa (United States) (AFP) - Ricky Lam has always stayed away from guns. But since two mass killings in the space of a couple of days rocked California's Asian community, this 35-year-old Chinese-American is thinking again. "I'm still on the fence. I don't know if I want to purchase a gun. But the last shootings reminded me that I need to decide," he told AFP. Lam lives with his family in the suburbs of Los Angeles just a few miles (kilometers) from Monterey Park, where last month an elderly Asian gunman killed 11 Lunar New year revellers at a dance studio. Two days later in the north of Cali...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case challenging a decades-old law on Native American adoptions, but which touches on broader questions of Indigenous rights in the United States. Like in Canada, Native American children in the United States were for decades removed from their biological parents and placed in boarding schools or with non-Indigenous families as part of a policy of forced assimilation. Congress in 1978 sought to bring a final end to the practice with the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which set strict standards for removi...
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Washington (AFP) - Four out of five pregnancy-related deaths in the United States could be avoided, a new report by the nation's top public health agency says, as mothers in the country face a comparatively high mortality rate, especially among Black women. The study analyzed the cases of around 1,000 women who died between 2017 and 2019 due to pregnancy or related complications, up to a year after childbirth, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. "The report paints a much clearer picture of pregnancy-related deaths in this country," said Wanda Barfield, director of the CD...
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Washington (AFP) - Fifty or so migrants sent to the wealthy island of Martha's Vineyard in the northeastern United States as part of a political battle over immigration will be temporarily housed at a military base not far from there, the governor of Massachusetts said Friday. The migrants, mostly Venezuelans and including children, arrived Wednesday at Martha's Vineyard, a Democratic stronghold and popular vacation spot for the country's political elite. They had been put on board flights from Texas which the Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, says he chartered. Despite local mo...
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Montreal (AFP) - Isolated in the vast prairies of west-central Canada, the James Smith Cree Nation -- epicenter of a deadly stabbing rampage -- is a small Indigenous community that is no stranger to drama. Like many other Indigenous communities in North America, it suffers from such problems as overcrowded housing, high unemployment, drug addiction and racial discrimination, researchers say. Small, isolated communityLocated in a territory spanning more than 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) the community's central village is in a rural area where people live off farming and ranching. Some 3,400 ...
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Montreal (AFP) - Isolated in the vast prairies of west-central Canada, the James Smith Cree Nation -- epicenter of a deadly stabbing rampage -- is a small Indigenous community that is no stranger to drama. Like many other Indigenous communities in North America, it suffers from such problems as overcrowded housing, high unemployment, drug addiction and racial discrimination, researchers say. Small, isolated communityLocated in a territory spanning more than 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) the community's central village is in a rural area where people live off farming and ranching. Some 3,400 ...
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Schriever (United States) (AFP) - Joann Bourg stands in front of her new home, about an hour's drive from the low-lying Louisiana island where she grew up -- an area gradually sinking into the Gulf of Mexico. "I'm very excited. I can't wait to just move on in," Bourg told AFP. "I've been waiting for this day forever." Bourg is one of about a dozen Native Americans from the Isle de Jean Charles who have been relocated to Schriever, less than 40 miles (60 kilometers) to the northwest -- the maiden beneficiaries of a federal resettlement grant awarded in 2016. They are the first so-called "climat...
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Washington (AFP) - In 2020, the death rate from drug overdose among Black people surpassed that of white people in the United States for the first time since 1999, according to a study published this year. Its author, Joseph Friedman, a researcher at UCLA University in California, details for AFP the reasons for this recent shift. What were the different waves of opioid overdoses in the United States?The first wave was overdoses coming from prescription opioids that were essentially provided to the population through the healthcare system ... And then, as the US started to cut back heavily on...
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Washington (AFP) - Lorando Duncan wears long-sleeved shirts because his arms bear scars he doesn't like to show: those of the drugs he has been injecting into his veins for decades. Born in the US capital Washington 65 years ago, the slender African American has been using heroin almost all his adult life. But the advent of fentanyl, an ultra-powerful and addictive synthetic opioid, changed everything. "Fentanyl killed a lot of my friends," he tells AFP beneath a picture of America's first Black vice president, Kamala Harris, that he has hung in his apartment in Anacostia, one of the poorest...
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