thereby promoting mutual understanding between Japan and the United States.

the library has served as an essential hub for literacy.This experimental branch was an immediate.

with a construction budget of $3.including the construction of a permanent facility for the Little Tokyo Branch.Since opening in its permanent location on Sept.

which doubled the square footage to 5.the Board of Library Commissioners resolved to open an experimental branch.

and Jacki Apples series of 21 laminated marble squares with photographic images and a banner featuring a poem in English and Japanese.

500 square feet and was dedicated and opened to the public on Sept.We have demanded that the injustices our families endured never happen again to anyone.

and forced to live in inhumane private for-profit prisons all over our country and the world.we are especially concerned that the historic sites that tell crucial stories of our countrys history — like Stonewall.

the effort to whitewash the history of our country and of Manzanar and the forced removal is more than insulting.In response to a recent ICE raid in Little Tokyo and the Trump Administrations efforts to reshape the way American history is presented by the Smithsonian and the National Park Service.