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Van Jones writes that Black solidarity with the Asian American community is no surprise to those who know the long history of America’s struggle for racial equality. It builds on a centuries ...
As more Japanese and Asian American organizations sign their names to the growing list of groups that support the state’s Black communities in their fight for reparations, parallels between ...
Japanese American survivors of wartime incarceration received $20,000 each and an apology. Some of their descendents say Black Americans are also due reparations. Support for LAist comes from ...
Correction Appended: June 10, 2008Sixty-three years after U.S. forces vanquished the Japanese and plantedtheir flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi, the remote outpost in the ...
In 2019 and into 2020, Asian American elder abuse spiked in San Francisco. 89-year-old Yik Oi Huang was found beaten and left to die in a Visitation Valley playground.
Nisei soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during WWII reflect on their service at a time — both then and now — when their loyalty as Asian Americans has been questioned.
Claims about the extraordinary acts of little-known Africans and Black Americans are a tradition in February, which marks Black History Month in the United States. A Feb. 4 Instagram post by user ...
Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite Courtney Ozaki shows a map of the walking tour for Stories of Solidarity. July 9, 2022. Many Japanese Americans resettled in the Five Points neighborhood, both during and ...
While their family members and peers lived behind barbed wire in U.S. incarceration camps, approximately 33,000 Japanese American soldiers served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Roughly ...
The museum’s debut presentation was the long-running Common Ground: The Heart of Community, a chronological exhibition that profoundly retold Japanese-American history through personal accounts ...
The relationship between Asian American and Pacific Islanders and their place in American history is not, to many, nearly as obvious. The American racial conversation, in which African Americans ...