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Spice up your Saturday lunch time with our YouTube

Spice up your Saturday lunch time with our YouTube Live stream event featuring a diverse lineup of API creatives from our local communities! Don't miss out: Sat, 5/30 starting at 12pm Pacific! #apaheritagemonth #aapiheritagemonth #oaccprograms #oaklandasianculturalcenter

On this day in 2020, in the middle of unprecedente

On this day in 2020, in the middle of unprecedented circumstances, we remember and honor our fallen heroes.

Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (1919 – 2005) was an A

Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (1919 – 2005) was an American citizen of Japanese descent from Oakland. When executive orders came after Pearl Harbor to remove people of Japanese ancestry from designated "military areas" and placed in internment camps, Fred refused the order and went into hiding, even undergoing plastic surgery (attempting to pass as being of Hawaiian and Spanish descent, under the name Clyde Sarah). He was arrested May 30th, 1942, and tried and found guilty in September. He and his family were sent to the interment camp at Topaz, Utah. Korematsu died in 2005 of respiratory failure. He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery, and his grave marker bears a replica of his Presidential Medal of Freedom. One of the last things Korematsu said was, "I'll never forget my government treating me like this. And I really hope that this will never happen to anybody else because of the way they look, if they look like the enemy of our country."
📰 sourced from https://localwiki.org/oakland/Fred_Korematsu
🗓 #FamousFridays #apiaheritagemonth #oaklandasiancc #oaklandresidents #heartofoakland #fredkorematsu #activist #oaklandhistory

Posted @withregram • @projectartogether It's #th

Posted @withregram • @projectartogether It's #thankfulthursday, and today we'd like to express our gratitude to all our #frontlineworkers and #essentialworkers for all that they do! The work that they do is immeasurable, and so very important during these times. Thank you nurses, doctors, public transportation operators and drivers, grocery store workers, delivery workers, food servers, and all the other #unsungheros that have dedicated themselves to serving their communities during #covid19. ⁠
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Words cannot express how much we appreciate you. Thank you for all that you do! ⁠
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Art by Randy Stolinas via @amplifierart⁠
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#wethankyou #notallheroswearcapes #supportfrontlineworkers #togetherwewillgetthroughthis #thankyoufrontlineworkers #thankyouessentialworkers #frontlines #frontlineheros #healthcareheros #artogether #supportnonprofit #supportartists #supportrefugees #supportimmigrants

Posted @withregram • @officializhawaii Happy 61s

Posted @withregram • @officializhawaii Happy 61st Birthday IZ! #israelkamakawiwoʻole
SPREAD ALOHA AROUND THE WORLD!
Click on @Google's IZ Birthday Doodle and see their animated video of “Over The Rainbow.” @google

Posted @withregram • @18millionrising Happy birt

Posted @withregram • @18millionrising Happy birthday to Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm X, who were both born on May 19! 🎈On Malcolm, Yuri said: “He certainly changed my life. I was heading in one direction, integration, and he was going in another, total liberation, and he opened my eyes.” #yurikochiyama

Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore

Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. Tan's novels, "The Joy Luck Club" and "The Kitchen God's Wife," were enthusiastically received by critics as well as the book-buying public. Focusing on the lives of Chinese American women, Tan's books introduce characters who are uncertain as she once was about their Chinese background. Tan was born in Oakland, CA
Read more: https://www.notablebiographies.com/St-Tr/Tan-Amy.html#ixzz6MXwP2svO 🗓 #FamousFridays #apiaheritagemonth #oaklandasiancc #oaklandresidents #heartofoakland #amytan #author #asianamericanauthors #celebrateoaklandhistory

Posted @withregram • @shirien.creates Every year

Posted @withregram • @shirien.creates Every year on May 15th, Palestinians around the world commemorate the Nakba (النكبة‎), Arabic for “catastrophe”, which refers to the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestine and the near-total destruction of Palestinian society in 1948. About 530 Palestinian neighborhoods and villages were uprooted and destroyed, and 750,000+ Palestinians, including my own grandparents, were forced out of their homes into refugeehood with no possesions left besides the ones they could quickly grab and carry on their backs. ⠀

#NakbaDay #Nakba72 #Nakba #Palestine #FreePalestine⠀

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