California Formally Apologizes to Japanese Americans for WWII Incarceration
The California State Assembly voted unanimously today to pass a bill that formally apologizes for its role in the WW2…
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Republican Senator Compares Trump Impeachment Hearing to Japanese American Incarceration
Republican Senator John Kennedy’s statements earlier this week would be laughable if they weren’t so ahistorical and trivializing of racial…
The Power of Untidy Movements: 30 Years after the Fight for Japanese American Redress
By Guest Contributor: Sean Miura (@seanmiura) My mom was about my age when she testified in support of Japanese American…
#NeverAgainIsNow: Why the 30th anniversary of Japanese American Redress matters today
By Guest Contributors: Tsuya Hohri Yee, Co-Chair New York Day of Remembrance Committee (Facebook: @nydayofremembrance); and Joseph Shoji Lachman, Co-founder…
Ours is a History of Resistance
By: Karin Wang (@naragirl), Asian Americans Advancing Justice Since we launched “Write Back, Fight Back” two months ago, we have…
Families of Plaintiffs in Iconic SCOTUS Japanese American Incarceration Cases File Joint Brief Against Trump Muslim Ban
In an historic move, the families of Gordon Hirabayashi, Minoru Yasui, and Fred Korematsu — the three men behind three…
Travel Bans and Incarceration Camps: A Country that Forgets its History is Poised to Repeat It | #DayofRemembrance
75 years ago today, an American president passed an executive order that led to the forcible removal and incarceration of…
900+ Asian American Studies Scholars Issue Collective Statement Decrying Trump’s Proposed Muslim Registry
Over 900 Asian American Studies scholars from across the United States issued a joint statement today decrying President-Elect Donald Trump’s…
Carl Higbie Needs to Learn AAPI History
Yesterday, I reported that Trump supporter Carl Higbie had appeared on Fox News’ The Kelly File to offer Japanese American incarceration (a…
Trump Supporter Cites Japanese American Incarceration to Justify Planned Muslim Registry
We all knew it would come to this, didn’t we? Last night, Trump supporter Carl Higbie, a former spokesperson for…
We Cannot Disregard Data: How Opposition to Data Disaggregation Hurts AAPI
In California, a battle over data disaggregation has reached a fevered pitch. Earlier this year, Asian American and Pacific Islander…
#DayOfRemembrance 2016: A Legacy of Change Agents
Today is the 74th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the forced displacement and incarceration of…