Starting today and for the month of May you can watch director Rory Banyard’s new film on Minidoka, Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp, on select local PBS stations and the PBS app.
I want to thank Rory for calling me in to talk about the Munson Report, the wartime JACL, growing up Sansei, and other stuff. Continue reading Interview: “Betrayed”
As the month for the annual Day of Remembrance, February is always the busiest time of year for speaking requests. This year being the 80th anniversary of EO 9066, A friend counted 33 DOR events nationwide. I have nine on the books myself, a personal record, including four on February 19th.
Continue reading National Day of Remembrance tops February events
In Seattle, the North American Post is the successor to the prewar Hokubei Jiji newspaper that Fuyo Tanagi helped edit, before she wrote the letter protesting the drafting of Nisei boys from camp for the Mothers Society of Minidoka. So it is an honor to be interviewed by Elaine Ikoma Ko in this wide-ranging exchange on No-No Boy, John Okada and We Hereby Refuse for the cover of the current issue of the Post.
Read the interview in the North American Post here.
Continue reading The North American Post interview
