The annual event marks the Feb. 19, 1942 date on which President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced removal of more than 125,000 people of Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals, upending lives and livelihoods.
If you don’t study it, you can’t fix it.
Introduced by Sen. Dave Min in partnership with Stop AAPI Hate, the bill would address systemic safety issues on public transit systems across the state.
Critics say the proposals hark back to racist laws from the early 1900s preventing Asian Americans from becoming property owners.
The Los Angeles Day of Remembrance (DOR) Committee announced that the annual DOR will be held on Saturday, Feb. 18, at 2:00 at the Japanese American National Museum, First Street and Central Avenue in Little Tokyo.
Stop AAPI Hate: We support ending gun violence, but we are not usually part of the policy conversations. AAPI organizations are uniting to advocate for action.
As a 39-year resident of Monterey Park, Peter Ng passed by the Star Ballroom Dance Studio every day on his way to work.
We are in solidarity with the communities of Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay as they mourn the loss of life, work to recover a sense of safety and begin the long journey toward healing in the aftermath of two separate acts of mass gun violence in recent days.
In recent days, California cities Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay, and Oakland joined the long list of communities who have been devastated by senseless acts of gun violence.
The two tragic events took place during the Lunar New Year season, which is normally a time of rebirth, says state assemblyman Phil Ting, whose district includes part of San Francisco.
