Through ups and downs — including the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic — the group endured.

Basket raffle prizes (attendance required) include Dodgers tickets.and more; prizes awarded to all child participants while supplies last.

and Hawaii-style Okinawa Bon Odori.Parking (cash only) is $7 per car.com/oaapicnicvolunteer25 (service hours available for students).

The gatherings were pioneered by early Okinawan immigrants in the 1930s to build fellowship and to joyously partake in their shared cultural heritage.The OAA would like to say ippee nifee deebiru (thank you very much) to this years Gold Level sponsors.

at Whittier Narrows Recreation Area in South El Monte.

Enjoy games throughout the day.Aki Maehara took questions from local news media at the Chinese American Museum.

My roommate was dragged down a flight of stairs.and they were continuously turned away and told theres nothing to be done.

so has this period of intensified hate.not only Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders but people from many different backgrounds from across the nation and from many parts of the world.