which went directly to those who had evacuated and lost their homes.

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.

My father wrote in his diary in 1943.

but the histories of other oppressed communities as well.Sara: We also push back on what people stereotypically think of what a Japanese woman is.

or learning how to wear yukata.Sara: I want to expand on the resilience of the community.

Photo courtesy of Toyo Miyatake StudiosThe 2023 Nisei Week Court.By MICHELLE TIOThe opening sequence of the short film begins with pictures of Nisei Week Courts from the 1930s and progresses through the present day.