Iwanagas dedication to community outreach.

like former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.we have suffered much from the Spanish crown.

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.Kara: I’ve been able to see through my sister how much of an impact Nisei Week has had on both her and the community.

the words What is the Nisei Week Queen and Court Program? appear.When I put on the kimono and I was looking at myself in the mirror.

There’s just something so life-changing about this whole program.I think that also shows how it’s changed.