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While thumbing through the latest issues at my favorite comic book store Saturday, I came across a new magazine that caught my eye. On...

The LGBTQ community has a meeting on the fourth Sunday of each month at the Sage Granada United Methodist Church in Alhambra. The...

In the past, when women came forward with accusations of sexual misconduct against well-known figures, the famous person usually ignored...

From left: Freda Foh Shen, Karen Huie, Jeanne Sakata, Amy Hill, Emily Kuroda. By KAREN HUIE Do you have an emergency survival kit?...

Aiden Kaneshiro and Brendan Ikeda clean the Japanese American National War Memorial Court on Oct. 28 at the JACCC. The monument honors...

Well, if it’s the fall, that must mean it’s time for me to come out of hibernation and return to penning this column. My “anonymous...

Prologue: My Asian Women Writer’s group took a field trip to the Hammer Museum to see “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985.” It...

By BISHOP GRANT J. HAGIYA (Published Oct. 5, 2017) If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a...

October 5 — The hearing room was packed! Artists. Little Tokyo community organizations. Folks struggling with gentrification in Chinatown...

On Aug. 30, 2017, Sumiteru Taniguchi passed away from cancer. He was 88 years old. As a living hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor),...

Earlier in the year, I had a bit part in Cal State University Dominguez Hills’ program “And Then They Came for Us … ,” held in February....

Tule Lake Segregation Center inmates on the firebreak road that is now the airstrip. This photo, labeled “Jap trouble,” was taken by a...

A rally is held in downtown Los Angeles following the announcement on that the Trump administration is ending the Deferred Action for...

Last week I wrote about the latest news in the long-running coverage of the journey of the 1976 telefilm “Farewell to Manzanar” to DVD...

(Published Aug. 24, 2017) Just as the brightly lit lanterns of Obon season are beginning to come down, so the annual pilgrimage season is...

Yes, if you’re thinking of investing 106 minutes of your life to watch this original Netflix movie, do something more fulfilling, even if...

The 1960s and ’70s were a time of great social change in America and this was also true in the Asian American community (which had just...

In early 2005, when Facebook was fighting for dominance against a rival called MySpace — and before “social media” became part of our...

(Published Aug. 19, 2017) Over the weekend, news reports allowed the nation and the world to bear witness to the despicable side of...

Left: Japanese Americans board buses in front of Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple on First Street in Little Tokyo in 1942. (Photo by Jack...