reparations
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Los Angeles Day of Remembrance stresses collective action for justice
March 3, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — The annual Los Angeles Day of Remembrance, commemorating the Feb. 19, 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which authorized the forcible removal […] READ MORE
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‘Reparations’ explores struggle to atone for slavery
February 17, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
In Jon Osaki’s film, “Reparations,” Blacks and Asian Americans address the four-century struggle to atone for slavery in the U.S., and discuss the critical role that solidarity between communities plays […] READ MORE
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S.F.: African American leaders say ownership of Fillmore Heritage Center should be part of reparations plan
November 25, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
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 […] READ MORE
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Calif. task force launches study of slave reparations
June 10, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
SAN FRANCISCO — A first-in-the-nation task force in California to study and recommend reparations for African Americans held its inaugural meeting June 1, launching a two-year process to address the […] READ MORE
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Exploring the Black American path toward redress
April 15, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
“In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War there was a set of promises made to the formerly enslaved, including the promise of land and that Black folks would have […] READ MORE
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Reflections on Day of Remembrance: Supporting the SF ‘comfort women’ memorial & delving into our own history of sexual violence against women in times of war
February 18, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
Last year, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution to create a “comfort women” memorial. The resolution garnered broad support from both within the Japanese American community […] READ MORE
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Selma’s 50th anniv. march inspires JACL resolution to study African American reparations
January 21, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
“Frederick Douglass said we should have 40 acres and a mule.” Instead, America left blacks “penniless and illiterate after 244 years of slavery,” said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He […] READ MORE
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