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[caption id="attachment_842" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="From Senator Dan Akaka's Facebook photo album"][/caption] The JACL today issued a press release on the Congressional Gold Medal ceremonies held this week for the veterans of the...

Civil rights groups all over the country rejoiced when Governor Schwarzenegger yesterday signed into law Assembly Bill 1775, establishing January 30 as Fred Korematsu Day in the state of California, the first time in United States history a day is named...

On the heels of this Memorial Day, a day set aside to celebrate the contributions of the brave men and women who fought for the United States, Filipino veterans who fought for the United States in World War II have been forced to sue for their justly...

The 2010 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival presents NINOY AQUINO AND THE RISE OF PEOPLE POWER, a film by Tom Coffman, one of Hawai'i's leading filmmakers. The film will show at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas on Saturday, March 13,...

The United States Immigration Station on Angel Island opened its doors January 21, 1910. It replaced an overcrowded two-story shed at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company wharf in San Francisco. The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, in...

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