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Colleges are making tuition free for Native students. Will more students graduate?

The University of California system is the latest to announce free tuition for native students — but many say colleges shouldn't stop there.

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaks in Brussels on Feb. 18. Ethiopia's government is criticizing Tedros' statement that the crisis in the country's Tigray region is "the worst disaster on Earth" and his assertion that the lack of attention from global leaders may be due to Tigrayans' skin color.

Ethiopia denounces WHO head for saying crisis ignored because of Tigrayans' skin color

Ethiopia's government is criticizing as "unethical" the statement by the World Health Organization's director-general that the crisis in the country's Tigray region is "the worst disaster on Earth."

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2022.

2 monkeypox variants will no longer be named after regions, for ethical reasons

Subsequent variants of monkeypox will be named using Roman numerals for the clade, and lowercase letters for the subclade.

Chinese New Year Festival @ Balboa Park

Comes see lion dance, dragon dance, kung fu performance, Chinese ethnic specialty food, red envelopes, and many more at Balboa Park. This is an event you won't want to miss out on, so many different activities and fun for all the family. Come see what it is all about and you won't be disappointed. Free Admission. RSVP NOW Dates: Saturday- Sunday, Feb. 19-20, 2022 Time: 11a.m.- 5p.m. Location: House of Pacific Relations International Cottages For more information on this event please visit HERE!

The award-winning novelist Chibundu Onuzo has lately been thinking about her life in London and her visits to Nigeria, where she was born: "What do I love most about my trips to Lagos? I lose my self-consciousness there. If I stand out, it's for something other than my skin color."

My brother made it in Lagos — and taught me lessons about my life in London

The author Chibundu Onuzo reflects on her older brother's path to success after leaving the U.K. for their native Nigeria — and wonders whether she should consider joining him.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute students on the San Diego State University campus, Friday, for a welcome back to school event, San Diego, Calif., August 12, 2022.

Elderly students welcomed back to the SDSU campus

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute offers classes in partnership with San Diego State, which has been designated an Age-Friendly University.

Ethnic tensions are mounting in Bosnia-Herzegovina again

A quarter century after the end of a brutal civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, tensions are once again on the rise and threatening to tear apart the multi-ethnic government.

Latvia is growing its military as Russia becomes increasingly aggressive

Latvia is gearing up for the possibility they could be next after Ukraine. Officials say their military are drastically understaffed, so the country plans to bring back compulsory military service.

Author of 'Taliban' reflects on how the group has changed since it was last in power

In 2001, author and journalist Ahmed Rashid wrote the definitive account of the Taliban and its origins. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly now speaks with Rashid, a year after the Taliban re-took Afghanistan.

<em>Vision divine du 11 Mars 1948</em>, is a series of eight drawings by Ivoirian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. They depict a vision that Bouabré said he experienced that year: "seven colored suns" creating a "circle of beauty around their 'mother-sun.' " This piece and other works from Bouabré are part of an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.

A vision of 7 suns led a self-taught Ivoirian artist to draw the everyday and the holy

The Museum of Modern Art shows the colorful works of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, a prolific artist from the Ivory Coast who documented his Bété culture — and even created a pictograph language.

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