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Read Part 1 >> At the time of his passing, Franklin was working with Honolulu attorney William “Bill” Kaneko, his former Ethnic Studies student, and …
“If you don’t control your own culture and your own vision of life, and your own participation in life, then you don’t control anything. And …
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Read Part 1 >> LIFE IN PUNK Tamiko Nimura (TN): It's so fantastic to hear about this I just remember reading [and] doing a little bit …
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If Dad were alive today, I think he would have been simultaneously embarrassed and proud that something of his is currently on display in one …
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Seventy three years ago, a contingent of 1,018 Japanese and Japanese Americans left the Yakima Valley in the State of Washington and were sent to …
As part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Project Assistant of the National Museum of American History Christy Wallover shares three meaningful objects from the …
Artist/photographer Satomi Shirai has found a successful creative path by exploring the feeling of being lost. Featured in the Smithsonian exhibition, Portraiture Now: Asian American …
Folk songs are short stories from the souls of common people. Some, like Mexican corridos or Scottish ballads, reworked in the Appalachias, are stories of …
“It’s the best life in the world,” Roger Shimomura says, of being an artist.“It’s unpredictable. You can be lucky, unlucky, work hard or not, be …
For the artists and museum professionals behind the Smithsonian’s landmark exhibition, a portrait is much more than an artwork. It’s an encounter—an opportunity to meet …
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