Charges in Freddie Gray’s case, the “godfather of African music” in Canada, male-only social clubs in London, and more in today’s Rounds…

Race, Ethnicity & Nationality

• Six Baltimore (U.S.) officers charged with homicide in death of Freddie Gray. (NYT)
• An imaginative feature on how international media would cover developments in Baltimore were they happening elsewhere. (The Independent)
• An overview of black-Jewish relations in Baltimore. (Times of Israel)
• Youth art collective in Brazil draws attention to rich culture and challenges facing riverside communities in the Amazon. (Global Voices)
• Kurdish leaders in Turkey acknowledge Kurds’ role in the Armenian Genocide as they fight their own oppression. (Al-Monitor)
• Iraqi Kurds work to avoid regional sectarian conflicts, although internal divisions show cracks in the united front. (Al-Monitor)

Immigrants, Refugees & Displaced Peoples

• Cambodian immigration chief accuses UN High Commissioner for Refugees office of smuggling Vietnamese asylum seekers into the country, while human rights watchdogs accuse Cambodia of abdicating its official human rights responsibilities. (Cambodia Daily, Human Rights Watch)
• Migrants facing poor health conditions and abuse while held in official and unofficial detention centers in Libya. (Telegraph)
• Sectarian forced displacement now moving Iraqi Sunnis into Shiite-dominant areas. (Al-Monitor)
• Lamine Touré, a music-lover who immigrated to Canada from Ghana in the ’70s, brings the diverse sounds of his continent and its diaspora to his new home through Club Balattou. (PRI)
• Asylum-seeking children who haven’t secured legal representation face dim prospects in U.S. justice system. (Politico)

Gender

• In Spain, job security and pay decrease not only by gender, but by whether women are pregnant or have children. (El Mundo, in Spanish)
• A Pakistani court has issued life sentences to 10 men involved in activist Malala Yousafzai’s shooting, though lack of judicial transparency raises questions. (BBC)
• The Root outlines black women’s importance to the labor movement in the U.S. (The Root)
• A woman and her daughter are allegedly sexually molested and thrown from a moving bus in Punjab (India), leaving the girl dead and her mother seriously injured. (Zee News)
• A look at the last holdouts of male-only social clubs in London (U.K.). (Guardian)

Religion & Belief

• Responses to the Nepal earthquake by Nepal‘s religious communities. (RNS)

Gender & Sexual Minorities

• Japan‘s education ministry issues first-of-its-kind notice encouraging schools to provide accommodations to LGBT students. (Japan Times)
• Voices surge as Ireland prepares for constitutional referendum on same-sex marriage. (BBC)
• Gay Muslim filmmaker receives online abuse for his documentary on his clandestine hajj. (Guardian)

Additional

• Minorities are disproportionately representing workplace fatalities in the U.S. (CNN Money)