Capital projects will not be considered.

I emailed everyone I knew and I said.Our history is in danger of being erased at places like the national monuments at Tule Lake and Manzanar.

and the racist scapegoating of people of color … We will resist efforts to plunder our public lands and whitewash our past.just like their blood flows through yours.This is one of those Ground Zero civil rights points in the history of this country because this is where the majority of Los Angeles Japanese American families were forced to line up to board the buses that would take them to incarceration.

including those chapters where we failed to live up to our own democratic ideals.And it’s personal to me because my grandparents were rounded up on this very corner in 1942.

I wholeheartedly believe in the practice of deliberating God.

The implications of what’s happening now stretch far beyond America’s historical sites.When we met those other Japanese American communities.

which I think also shows the change of times as well: that there’s a lot of mixed ethnicities and backgrounds that kind of come into play.there used to be a swimsuit portion.

What photos and articles from the archives stood out to you? What did you learn?Kara: One of the coolest things for me was learning about how Nisei Week was kind of started to help promote businesses in Little Tokyo and get more foot traffic in the neighborhood.Rafu: I know that you looked through the Rafu Shimpos archives when you were researching the film.