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DETROIT When Mary Kamidoi and her sister were recruited from Flint Business College to work in the accounting department at Ford Motor Company in 1951, they were among the first Japanese American women to work there. They tried to buy a house in neighboring Dearborn, Michigan, the same city in which they worked, only to be blocked by racial covenants and restrictions.Instead, they rented a series of apartments and, eventually, a house on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit. They often sat in their large picture window and noticed all the young Black people going in and out of the house next door, but never stopped to wonder what was going on. It wasnt until much later that they learned that they were living next door to Hitsville U.S.A., the birthplace of Motown.Without realizing it, the Kamidoi siste stanley cup rs probably saw all the big Motown stars, like Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder, in the early days of their fame.Visitors at Exiled to Motown exhibit opening at Detroit Historical Museum, Detroit, July 31, 2021. Photograph courtesy of Japanese American Citizens League Detroit Chapter.The first people of Japanese descent came to Michigan in the late 1800s, drawn to ed stanley cup ucational and work opportunities. However, it was after Japanese Americans were released from con stanley cup centration camps at the end of World War II that the community really grew. Many decided not to return back to what had once been their homes on the West Coast. Rather, some decided to seek work and start new lives in ot Aecy 50 years on, what strides have we made in the war on poverty
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The seven聽World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli airstrikes聽represented the best of humanity and risked everything to feed people they did not know and will never meet, Jos茅 Andr茅s, the celebrity chef who founded the organization, told mourners who gathered Thursday to honor the dead.Watch the event in the video player above.Speaking at Washington National Cathedral, Andr茅s said there was no excuse for the killings and he called for an investigation into the deaths. He appeared to struggle at times to maintain his composure, his words focused on the lives and contributions of the aid workers as he pleaded for greater compassion. The seven souls we mourn today were there so that hungry people could eat, said Andr茅s, reading aloud their names. Their examples should inspire us to do better, to be better. The workers were killed April 1 when munitions fired from Israeli armed drones ripped through vehicles in their convoy as they left one of World Central Kitchens warehouses: Palestinian Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abuta stanley cup ha; Britons John Chapman, James Kirby and James Henderson; dual U.S.-Canadian citizen Jacob Flickinger; Australian Lalzawmi F yeezy rankcom; and Polish citizen Damiam Sobol.Hanging on the altar behind Andr茅s were flags of the slain humanitarian workers ; home countries, alongside the red, green, black and jordan white Palestinian flag. More than 500 mourners sat in pews below the cathedral soaring stained glass windows.Andr茅s spo