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The Columbia County Libraries Association and Chatham Public Library honor Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a special Zoom lecture with civil rights attorney Peter H. Irons on Tuesday, May

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In the landmark Supreme Court case Korematsu v. U.S., the civil rights icon challenged the order that created internment camps—and lost. Here's why the case remains significant today.

Fred Korematsu was the young man who gave his name to the Supreme Court decision that upheld incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II as constitutional. Yet Korematsu’s battle, influence, and legacy go far beyond that loss.

In 1942 in Pasadena, members of my family on both sides were told they had to move due to Executive Order 9066.

For decades after the war, those who had been incarcerated focused on rebuilding their lives and suppressed their feelings about their wrongful imprisonment.

On the 80th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks, a historian addresses the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans and tells her family's story.

L.A.Theatre Works to Release Audio Theater Recordings About JA Experience Posted On Top row: Jeanne Sakata, Anna Lyse Erikson (director), Mike McShane; second row: Tess Lina, Paul Yen, Joy Osmanski; third row: André Sogliuzzo, Susan Loewenberg (LATW producing artistic director), Josh Stamberg; bottom row: Greg Watanabe, Derek Mio, Brooke Ishibashi. (Photo courtesy L.A. Theatre Works) L.A. Theatre Works has announced two new state-of-the-art audio theater recordings about the Japanese America...

Kurima is a fourth-generation Japanese American. His parents and their families were incarcerated in Jerome, Arkansas, and Rohwer, Arkansas, during World War II. He lives in Carlsbad. People readily recognize the names of our nation’s most important civil rights leaders, lofty names such as Malcolm X and Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. But do you also know the name Fred Korematsu? I embarrassingly admit my own ignorance before moving to San Diego in 2011, and I place blam...