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His work on sickle cell anemia garnered widespread acclaim among Black Americans, as many members of the community were disproportionately affected.

Authors like John Steinbeck and Henry Miller are key figures of the Central Coast’s literary legacy, but there’s another 20th-century writer who a local historian says deserves more recognition: Filipino novelist Carlos Bulosan.

By Jonathan van Harmelen Part 1, continued from Mar. 25 NAP Both “The Sun” and “The Daily Province” continued to follow news of Japanese American families returning to the West Coast, with close attention paid to acts of domestic terrorism committed against returning families. Both papers continued to print stories on the fate of Japanese

As I have discussed in previous articles in “Discover Nikkei,” the news of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II seeped beyond the borders of the U.S. and traveled around the world.

By Jonathan van Harmelen The story of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans is not only a part of U.S. history, but also a part of global history. As many Issei remained in touch with families in Japan, news of the wartime incarceration traveled across the Pacific and even became a propaganda tool in Japan. […]