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With Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on Sunday, April 24, LA’s Armenian-American community has about a million stories to tell. And one team of USC researchers wants to record as many of them as possible.

As Sunday marks this year’s Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, a team of USC researchers has taken their mission mobile, recording local Armenians’ experience in a repurposed food truck. Gordon Tokumatsu reports April 22, 2022.

President Joe Biden says Russia’s attack on Ukraine and Ukrainians amounts to “genocide,” while other world leaders have not gone as far.

You may have seen headlines about 215 children being found in a mass grave behind a school in Kamloops, Canada. Law professor Nicole Schabus explains the system that put those children there – in which Canada sent more than 150,000 First Nation children to Indigenous schools. The system sought to convert the children to Christianity and prevent them from speaking their native languages.

Turkey’s foreign ministry has summoned the U_S_ ambassador in Ankara to protest the U_S_ decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as “genocide.”

April 24 is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Director and filmmaker Ani Hovannisian traveled to Armenia to discover what remains of her family’s homeland more than 100 years after the Ottoman Empire killed more than 1 million people and seized territory. Hovannisian’s documentary “The Hidden Map” airs on NBCLX Friday, April 23 at 7 p.m. ET.

Dr. Edith Eger speaks about “The Gift,” her book that mentions grief as a force for positive change, inspired by her story surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp, and her healing process from the trauma.