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Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama—An Insightful Documentary on the Strength & Passion of Two Women

C.A. Griffith and H.T.L. Quan’s inspiring documentary, Mountains That Take Wing—Angela …

Mai Tanaka • Jan. 24, 2012

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Will We Feel the Ghost of the Past at Jerome?

14-8-C…A few years ago, this series of numbers and a letter were meaningless to me. Then I h…

Ben Arikawa • Jan. 23, 2012

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Journal Entry #Only 10% Used!: "Organized Chaos..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Jan. 21, 2012

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Memories of Heart Mountain - Part 2

Read part 1 >>I eventually graduated from high school and went to UC Berkeley and then UCLA g…

Sam Mihara • Jan. 20, 2012

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Conversaciones a la distancia con Kaori Flores Yonekura

Las conversaciones a la distancia generalmente están teñidas con instrascendencia -a …

Victor Nishio Yasuoka • Jan. 19, 2012

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Airborne Dreams: Christine R. Yano

During the postwar era in the mid 1950s, in the midst of gender and racial politics, globalism, and…

Susan Osa • Jan. 19, 2012

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Letter to President Obama re: Indefinite Military Detention

January 10, 2012The Honorable Barack ObamaPresident of the United StatesThe White House1600 Pennsyl…

Soji Kashiwagi • Jan. 18, 2012

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Hikari, una empresa con alas: Pollos, trabajo y nido de los Gushiken

Era 1978 y Julio Gushiken Irey (59) solo quería hacer un negocio para poder casarse. Ten&iac…

Angélica Camacho +1 • Jan. 17, 2012

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70th Anniversary of the Signing of Executive Order 9066

2012 marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. For those of you who don&rs…

Koji Steven Sakai • Jan. 17, 2012

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Farewell to Manzanar—DVD Introduces Film to a New Generation

The Actors’ Perspective

Farewell to Manzanar, adapted from the memoir that Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston penned with her husband…

Esther Newman • Jan. 16, 2012

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