…to North Korean prison camps or getting forced into the sex slave business. The Han-Schneider International Children’s Foundation is currently pushing for the act to enter the House and Senate….
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December Issue: Nation's First Asian American Rabbi Inspires Social Change
Unorthodox Rabbi As a child, Angela Buchdahl stood out as the lone Asian face in the synagogue and at Jewish camps. Today, she holds the distinction of being the nation’s…
Speak Now: A Space for Reflections on Sa-i-gu
…how 120,000 Japanese Americans in the post-Pearl Harbor hysteria were rounded up and herded into desolate camps. But their American-born children, all citizens, were too young to do anything. A…
Prominent North Korean Defector Retracts Key Parts of His Story
…other than being a child of alleged criminals. According to his written apology on his Facebook page, Shin may even drop his humanitarian efforts to abolish political prison camps due…
AAPI Congressional leaders throw support behind Hillary Clinton at DNC
…would have supported or opposed Japanese internment camps during World War II. Reps. Doris Matsui and Mike Honda, who were both imprisoned in such camps, are Caucus members. “[Matsui and…
LA Times Under Fire For Printing Letters Defending Japanese Internment
…were not for the concentration camps, maybe my grandmother and her 4 siblings could have grown up with a father,” Wakasa wrote on his Facebook. “Maybe I would know more…
On 75th Anniversary Of Japanese Internment Order, Warnings Against Repeating History
Seventy-five years ago come Sunday, an executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent 120,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps. Executive Order 9066, a World War II tragedy that…
4 Eye-Opening Asian and Asian American Documentaries
…camps in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attacks in 1941. Their stories are told along with propaganda footage from inside the camps and family pictures. This classic PBS doc…
DC Comics Brings ‘Bombshells United’ To Japanese American Internment
Two writers are bringing DC superheroines to the rescue — this time to Japanese American internment camps. “Bombshells United” is the follow-up to the “Bombshells” comic series, written by Marguerite…
Here’s the Trailer for Jennifer Yuh Nelson’s ‘The Darkest Minds’ Adaptation
…Neurodegeneration (IAAN). The remaining 2 percent develop strange, inexplicable powers that not only make them a threat to others, but to themselves as well. Children, detained in rehabilitation camps until…
‘Boat People’: The Horror Stories of The Vietnam Exodus
…many people do not know the enormity and details of this event. To help heal and educate, Hoang organizes trips back to the refugee camps. “Many families lost their loved…
Stories from Behind the Border
…line in many South Korean universities and government halls denies the existence of political concentration camps, starvation and repression. These four have not grasped what I feel the average American,…
April Issue: K.W. Lee Challenges the Grandchildren of the LA Riots
…the humanity to the nameless and faceless 4.29 victims, as did the grandchildren of the Holocaust and the Japanese American grandchildren of the (internment) camps in the 1980s. It took…
Why North Korea Matters
…north until I was an adult. In 1952, a year before Korea was split into two permanently armed camps, my grandparents left what is now known as North Korea. With…
Storytime
…worked as a journalist for People magazine and the Seattle Times and also as a TV writer. She writes, camps, plays violin and lives with her husband in L.A. –…
