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FINDING YOUR NIKKEI ROOTS: A few of my favorite things
It’s getting to be that time of year again. Have you begun to ponder holiday gifts for your friends and family? How about genealogy gifts and gadgets from or for your favorite family historian? Consider the following gifts FOR the genealogy geek in the family: A scanner for digitally preserving photos and documents. There are […]
Michelle Wu sworn in as Boston’s first woman elected mayor
BOSTON — Michelle Wu was sworn in Nov. 16 as Boston’s first woman and first person of color elected mayor in the city’s long history. The swearing-in of the city’s first Asian American mayor came two weeks after Wu won the city’s mayoral election. Before Wu, Boston had elected only white men as mayor. “City […]
Pregnant? Planning to become pregnant? Get vaccinated against COVID-19
Throughout the pandemic, I have been treating pregnant patients at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, CA. Before the vaccines, there were a lot of unknowns and people were worried. But today, I recommend the COVID-19 vaccines to my pregnant patients. I tell them it is part of taking good care of themselves […]
S.F.: African American leaders say ownership of Fillmore Heritage Center should be part of reparations plan
Leaders with San Francisco’s African American community, along with actor and San Francisco native Danny Glover, on Nov. 12 called on the city to donate the building that houses the Fillmore Center to a local nonprofit as part of the city’s reparation plan. According to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People San […]
Wilma Chan’s chief of staff appointed to fill her seat on board of supervisors
OAKLAND — Following the untimely death of Supervisor Wilma Chan, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 16 appointed Chan’s former Chief of Staff Dave Brown to replace her. Brown will serve the remaining 14 months of Chan’s current term. Chan died in a collision with a vehicle in Alameda on the morning of […]
In Sports
Man charged in anti-Asian rant against Olympic athlete
ORANGE, Calif. — Prosecutors filed a hate crime charge against a 26-year-old man Sept. 24 in connection with an anti-Asian rant targeted at a Japanese American Olympic athlete in Southern California earlier this year. The defendant, Michael Orlando Vivona, was previously charged with attacking an elderly Asian couple while they took a walk in the […]
In Travel
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. Last September, Rev. Ken Yamada, the former minister of Berkeley Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple, and Rev. Jerry Hirano, minister of Salt Lake City Buddhist Temple, spent 36 days driving through the 48 contiguous states in an RV, racking up more than 13,000 miles. To view […]
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