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really from?” I was fortunate enough to know my great-grandmother before she passed. I vividly remember fond memories of her tiny dog that was always in need of a sweater, and the persimmons she grew outside. My great aunt is still alive, lives by herself, and plays the occasional golf game at 102. My grandmother is about to celebrate her 93rd birthday next week. All were born in the United States. On my mother’s side (Japanese), my grandfather is Nisei (second generation) while my grandmother is Sansei (third generation). On my father’s side (Filipino), my grandparents are first genera...

May 17th, 2021, 10:30AM / BY Katherine Fecteau Alice Tetsuko Kono in her Women's Army Corps uniform, around 1943 (NMAH) Alice Tetsuko Kono was cleaning her parents' house in Molokai, Hawaii, when she heard the news about Pearl Harbor. Her radio began to chirp an urgent broadcast about the Japanese attack. She ran to tell her parents, and the family kept the radio on all day as more reports flowed in. That December day arguably changed the course of Kono's life, as it likely had the lives of many other young people of her generation. Just two years later, she enlisted in th...

The long, ugly history of racism against the AAPI community Decades of discrimination against Asian Americans included the Chinese Exclusion Act, the murder of Vincent Chin and America's first immigration ban based on race. Author: Shern-Min Chow, Matthew Torres Published: 1:43 PM PDT May 17, 2021 Updated: 1:55 PM PDT May 17, 2021 The attacks that killed eight people at three spas in or around Atlanta in mid-March helped further ignite a nationwide movement to not only stop hate against the Asian American Pacific Islander community but raise aw...

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KXLY May 11, 2021 6:32 PM Aaron Luna SPOKANE, Wash. — Late in 2019, we heard about the coronavirus spreading in China and it seemed like the next thing we knew, the virus was knocking on our door. The first known case in the U.S. was in Washington. We took precautions, went into lockdowns and masked up. Businesses and restaurants closed. The president called it the “China virus” and the “kung flu.” City streets emptied and as the virus spread, so did something else. Over the past year, crimes against Asian Americans have sky rocketed, with many attacks happe...