50 Essential Hawai'i Books You Should Read in Your Lifetime
HONOLULU’s first-ever list of the most iconic, trenchant and irresistible books about Hawai‘i, as voted by a panel of literary community luminaries.
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HONOLULU’s first-ever list of the most iconic, trenchant and irresistible books about Hawai‘i, as voted by a panel of literary community luminaries.
The Thalia Massie affair was one of Hawaii's most sensational and significant trials in the state's history and has forever changed Hawaii.
Massie Case Anniversary Today, flowers mark a Kalihi gravesite. It was on January 8th 1932 that Joseph Kahahawai Jr was murdered. He was one of five men accused of raping Thalia Massie, wife of a navy officer. Their trial resulted in a hung jury but the story does not end there. Not long after that, Kahahawai was kidnapped by Officer Thomas Massie and others and was shot dead. While a jury convicted them for killing Kahawai, they never served a day in jail. We pick up the story with cemetery historian Nanette Napoleon who has a personal connection to this story of race and ...