Rep. Celeste Maloy and three other lawmakers have introduced a bill to honor civil rights activist Fred Korematsu, held in a ...
In 2024, for the first time since the Obama administration, the Houston Astros did not reach the ALCS. The end of that ...
The 16th Street Train Station in West Oakland, a historic landmark that has stood as a silent witness to over a century of cultural and industrial evolution, is now one step closer to restoration.
“Tomiyama Taeko: A Tale of Sea Wanderers” represents a vital addition to UCSB’s artistic and intellectual community. As the ...
This was back in the early 70s. We hitchhiked out of San Diego on Highway 5 from Pacific Beach to Marysville, by Sacramento, and then we hopped freight trains all the way to Seattle, 1,255 miles. We ...
For brothers Aaron and Yusuke Jackson, buying Mt. Fuji wasn’t just about business but preserving a piece of their childhood.
Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...
Born to Japanese immigrants in Oakland, he was arrested for refusing to be incarcerated based on his ethnicity.
Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution was established under a bill by Assemblymen Warren Furutani, ...
In Nevada, the deadliest plane crash was in 1964. A four-engine Constellation operated by California’s Paradise Airlines traveling from Oakland crashed in a mountain near Lake Tahoe after two failed ...
Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86.
California on Thursday will observe Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, remembering the shipyard welder who challenged the constitutionality of the incarceration of Japanese ...