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Arizona PBS May 19, 2021 Two Japanese families are shown at a Salinas, California, assembly center. Fred Korematsu was sent to a California center for processing to a Utah internment camp. He fought the relocation all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court but lost; his sentence was vacated years after the camps were shuttered and called out as a national shame. (Photo courtesy of U.S. War Relocation Authority/Library of Congress) Known during World War II as a reception center, according to Library of Congress archives, this California center was a type of holding facility for those of Japanese d...

Dale Minami Receives Mineta Lifetime Achievement Award from APAICS Posted On Famed civil rights attorney Dale Minami accepts the inaugural Norman Y. Mineta Lifetime Achievement Award from APAICS. The Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) honored Minami Tamaki LLP (San Francisco) Senior Counsel Dale Minami with the inaugural Norman Y. Mineta Lifetime Achievement Award during its Virtual APAICS 27th Anniversary Awards Gala Dinner on May 13. The award was renamed this year to reflect the outstanding contributions made by Norman Y. Mineta over a lifetime of public ...

By JUSTIN WINGERTER | The Denver Post | Published: May 20, 2021 GRANADA, Colo. (Tribune News Service) — Fifteen miles from the Kansas border, Prowers County Road 23 1/2 comes to a dusty end, surrounded by sagebrush and prickly pear cacti and dead junipers. A place The Denver Post called, eight decades ago, "as bleak a spot as one can find on the western plains." In one of the more shameful moments in American history, the federal government removed 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals from their homes on the West Coast between 1942 and 1945 and imprisoned 10,000 over that tim...

In celebration of May as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we wanted to showcase eight Asian American attorneys who shaped the nation and paved the way for justice and civil rights of those who came after them.

View Comments Nearly eight decades after the United States forced Japanese Americans into prison camps during World War II, Arizona will recognize the efforts of a man who turned his pain into a lifetime of activism for equity and inclusion. A new state law designates Jan. 30 as Fred T. Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. Arizona joins 10 other states in honoring the activist on his birthday. The bipartisan-supported honor comes as harassment and hate crimes against people of Asian descent rise, as Asian Pacific Heritage Month is celebrated in May, and education around chal...