It is our privilege to launch this lecture series in honor of Secretary Mineta.

Rafu: What are your thoughts on the current political climate in which books and school curriculums are being banned if they address racism.They like it or they don’t.

when you start from a place of being honest about your own perspective.But I’d say the scales are weighed far more on the side of support than not.I try not to take any of my own opinions as a given when I write.

Rafu: What kind of messages of support and opposition have you received? Have your fellow authors been supportive?Tokuda-Hall: Fellow authors and educators and librarians have been wildly supportive.Scholastic said that these are “politically sensitive” times and that talking about racism “goes beyond what some teachers are willing to cover with the kids in their elementary classrooms … This could lead to teachers declining to use the book.

Text copyright ? 2021 by Maggie Tokuda-Hall.

and the audience is so unforgiving.a screening of the bilingual film Backstreet to the American Dream (2021.

December programming at the Museum of Latin American Art relating to the themes of Our Shared Future Los Angeles include free guided tours on Sundays.director and producer of Blue Beetle; Nancy de los Santos.

Tickets are $40 and include the informal plática with Maite Gomez-Rejón of ArtBites followed by Chinese/Mexican appetizers.The Los Angeles series will kick off with the initiatives National Conversation on Race at JANM on Friday