civil rights movement
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SELMA: Some personal reflections and recollections
February 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
I found it refreshing, the movie “Selma,” which recounted the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 and thru a black lens. Not surprisingly, it met with some criticism from critics, […] READ MORE
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50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MOVEMENT: An Asian American family visits the civil rights South
January 1, 2014 by Nichi Bei News
“Why’d y’all come to Birmingham?” the white cashier at Niki’s Restaurant incredulously asked when we mentioned we’d come all the way from Sacramento, Calif. “We came to see the Birmingham […] READ MORE
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A trip through Chinese American history
January 1, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
ESCAPE TO GOLD MOUNTAIN: A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CHINESE IN NORTH AMERICA By David H.T. Wong (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012, 256 pp., $19.95, paperback) The Chinese American experience […] READ MORE
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THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: Mervyn M. Dymally, former Congressional Black Caucus chair, a vital redress advocate
June 14, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
During the early 1970s, the movement for Japanese American redress (as it would later be called) was born. It started as a collection of grassroots activists seeking to raise popular […] READ MORE
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