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Eagle-Con 2021 to Honor George Takei Posted On George Takei was honored with the Snow Leopard Lifetime Achievement Award at the Asian World Film Festival in 2017. Actor, activist and Eisner winner George Takei headlines the honors at this year’s Eagle-Con, a virtual sci-fi and fantasy conference hosted by Cal State L.A. and the Art Directors Guild. This year’s Eagle-Con theme, “Possibilities Imagined Here,” celebrates diversity and addresses accessibility, underrepresentation and pushing boundaries in science fiction and fantasy genres over a series of three days, March 11-13. Takei...

Mar 11, 2021 Irene Hirano Inouye dedicated her life to major philanthropic and social causes in America, but perhaps her greatest legacy is her role in strengthening the U.S.-Japan relationship, including support for Tohoku’s recovery and an initiative created to benefit young people in the aftermath of the earthquake. Irene Hirano Inouye | KYODO A sansei, she served as the founding CEO and president of the Japanese American National Museum for 20 years. Her own family’s history in America was shaped by the country’s wartime internment of Japanese Americans, including her pater...

OBITUARY: Eunice Sato, 99; First Female Mayor of Long Beach Posted On Eunice Sato, the first Asian American woman to serve as mayor of a major American city, was first elected to the Long Beach City Council in 1975, eventually serving two years as mayor. RAFU STAFF REPORT LONG BEACH — Eunice N. Sato, the first Asian American woman to serve as mayor of a major American city, passed away of cardio-pulmonary arrest on Feb. 12. She was 99. Sato served as mayor of Long Beach for two years in the early 1980s, the first woman to lead the city, guiding it through a period of economic turmoil. She...

Konstantin Ishkhanov: InClassica opening night performance by Martha Argerich This April, the InClassica International Music Festival will open its doors with a grand opening concert featuring legendary Argentine-Swiss pianist, Martha Argerich 26 January 2021, 4:27pm Maria Salozobova and Martha Argerich This April, the InClassica International Music Festival will open its doors with a grand opening concert featuring legendary Argentine-Swiss pianist, Martha Argerich, and Swiss violinist, Maria Solozobova. This concert represents a rare opportunity to hear Argerich perform live in Malta, and l...

Jeanette Takamura CSSW connection:Jeanette Takamura served as the School of Social Work’s dean, the first woman to do so, from 2002 to 2016. She is now a professor at the School in addition to being dean emerita, teaching courses on federal policy. Path to political involvement: Though she began her career as a practicing social worker serving youth and families, Jeanette Takamura was soon called to serve in government first at the state, and then at the national, level with the goal of advancing policies and programs in aging, health, and related areas. In her native Hawaii, she became inv...