OC Supervisor Bartlett Joins SCAQMD Board
DIAMOND BAR — Orange County Supervisor Lisa A. Bartlett was sworn in March 1 as the newest member of the South Coast Air Quality...
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Rafu Shimpo
Mar 6, 20199 min read
JA WWII Experience Relevant to Different Communities
Panelists (from left): Lisa Okamoto, Amritpal Kaur, Leticia Bustamante, Reshma Shamasunder and Brian Niiya (moderator). (MARIO G....
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Rafu Shimpo
Mar 5, 20196 min read
2019 DOR Focuses on ‘Keeping Children Safe and Families Together’
Above and below: Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts carried banners representing the War Relocation Authority and Justice Department camps where...
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Rafu Shimpo
Mar 1, 20194 min read
Questions Raised About Handling of Adachi Investigation
A march in Jeff Adachi’s memory began at the Public Defender’s Office and ended at City Hall on Wednesday night. A memorial was planned...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 28, 20191 min read
‘JACL and the Campaign for Redress’ at Faith UMC
President Jimmy Carter signs the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians Act into law on July 31, 1980. Standing...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 27, 20198 min read
JACL Mourns Passing of S.F. Public Defender Adachi
Friends and admirers placed flowers at a makeshift memorial for Jeff Adachi at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. (KPIX)...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 26, 20196 min read
S.F. Public Defender Jeff Adachi Dies at 59
Rafu Staff Report SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, the city’s highest-ranking Japanese American official and...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 25, 20191 min read
AAAF Celebrates Hiring of AAPI Presidential Campaign Managers
The board of the Asian American Action Fund congratulates and celebrates the historic hiring of Roger Lau to helm Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 22, 20194 min read
Takano, Duckworth, Hirono Introduce Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Sen. Mazie Hirono, Rep. Mark Takano WASHINGTON – In advance of this week’s Day of Remembrance recognizing the...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 21, 20192 min read
De Leon Seeks to Replace Huizar in 14th Council District
State Sen. Kevin de Leon in his Silver Lake office, May 2015. (MARIO G. REYES, Rafu Shimpo) Former State Sen. Kevin de Leon announced...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 18, 20192 min read
JACL: National Emergency Claims to Build Border Wall Reminiscent of E.O. 9066
WASHINGTON — The Japanese American Citizens League issued the following statement on Feb. 15. =*= Following congressional passage of a...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 15, 20192 min read
Hirono, Senate Democrats Introduce Legislation to Protect America’s National Monuments
WASHINGTON — Sens. Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.), along with 23 Senate colleagues, re-introduced legislation to...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 15, 20192 min read
‘Alternative Facts’ Screening at Gardena Day of Remembrance
Day of Remembrance commemorates the Feb. 19, 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066, which forcibly removed over 120,000 Japanese and...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 13, 20193 min read
DOR Panel to Examine Parallels Between JA Incarceration and Present-Day Issues
“Behind Barbed Wire: Keeping Children Safe and Families Together” is theme for the Los Angeles Day of Remembrance (DOR) 2019, a program...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 11, 20196 min read
CAPAC Members Respond to Trump’s State of the Union
Rep. Mark Takano (D-Riverside), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Takano’s State of the Union guest, Shyan Lasater-Bailey, an...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 6, 20194 min read
Hirono, Takano Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Award Congressional Gold Medal to Korematsu
From right: Karen Korematsu, daughter of Fred Korematsu and founder of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute; Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii; and...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 1, 20191 min read
Trump Names Michelle Steel Co-chair of President’s Advisory Commission on AAPIs
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Jan. 17 announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to be members of the President’s...
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Rafu Shimpo
Jan 28, 20192 min read
Pelosi Reappoints Matsui to Smithsonian Board of Regents
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Jan. 23 announced the appointment of Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard of Los Angeles and the...
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Rafu Shimpo
Jan 25, 20192 min read
Supreme Court Allows Transgender Military Service Ban to Go Forward
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Trump’s transgender military ban to go into effect as the appeals process...
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