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Labor and Economic Opportunity Fred T. Korematsu honored as Asian American Civil Rights pioneer January 29, 2021 The Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission (MAPAAC) and Michigan Civil Right Commission (MCRC) join Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in recognizing Fred T. Korematsu for his contributions to civil rights and his dedication to justice and equality by proclaiming January 30, 2021 as Fred Korematsu Day. On January 30, 1919, Fred Korematsu was born in Oakland, California, to Japanese immigrants. In 1942, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States Army issued a curfew order ...

Posted By Kali Cozyris on Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 8:00 AM click to enlarge KeiLee Photography San Jose Taiko Jan. 30 is civil rights leader Fred Korematsu’s birthday and California honors his legacy with the annual Fred Korematsu Day Of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. This year, join Humboldt Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity (HAPI, formerly Taiko Swi...

LA MESA —  Actor, author and activist George Takei will be part of Tuesday’s La Mesa City Council meeting to speak about the memoir he wrote that covers his childhood in U.S. prison camps for Japanese-American citizens during World War II. Takei, who portrayed Lt. Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek television series and later was Capt. Sulu in Star Trek: Voyager, is also the author of the 2019 nonfiction comic book “They Called Us Enemy.” The graphic novel recounts how 4-year-old Takei, along with his family in Los Angeles and thousands of other Americans of Japanese descent wer...

Congressman: WWII Treatment of JAs Similar to Trump’s Election Dispute Posted On WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman has compared President Trump’s court battle over the outcome of the presidential election with the wartime plight of Japanese Americans. Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana posted on Facebook on Dec. 11, “The internment of 120K American citizens of Japanese ancestry during World War II happened. It was real. It was wrong. It was abhorrent. And it was challenged in court as a violation of constitutional rights. “The Supreme Court of the United States did not stop it. �...

It didn’t matter that she was a U.S.citizen. She was of Japanese heritage.  She and 120,000 other Japanese living in the U.S. were sent to internment camps. Hong was just 13 years old at the time. Credit: Hong family Hong's parents getting married in California. Hong remembers seeing her dog, Rex, chase after the bus. She was allowed to bring with her only what she could carry in her arms: underwear, the necessities. No suitcases were allowed and certainly no pets. Rex kept running after her on the bus. Hong watched him vanish out of sight. She could hear people crying.