LOS ANGELES — Connecting the injustices of the past with similar injustices of the present will be the focus of the 2021 Manzanar At Dusk program, part of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, which is scheduled from 5:00 PM PDT to 8:00 PM on Saturday, April 24, 2021, live and online via Zoom. The Manzanar At... Continue Reading →
Bonbu Stories and UCLA Kyodo Taiko to be Featured Performers For 52nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, April 24, 2021
LOS ANGELES — Bonbu Stories and UCLA Kyodo Taiko will perform during the 52nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, which will be held online on Saturday, April 24, 2021, at 12:00 PM PDT on the Manzanar Committee’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/manzanarcommittee. Further details about this year’s Pilgrimage program, including speakers and other participants, will be announced at a... Continue Reading →
Amplifying Voices: The 2020-21 Katari Program
Editor’s Note: The 2020-21 Katari program, which is usually held in early November at the Manzanar National Historic Site, had to be moved to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the loss of the extremely important placed-based learning component of the program, by all accounts, it seems that we were able to... Continue Reading →
The 2020-21 Katari Program “Was My Next Significant Step in Learning About the Japanese American Experience and My Own Identity”
Editor’s Note: The 2020-21 Katari program, which is usually held in early November at the Manzanar National Historic Site, had to be moved to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the loss of the extremely important placed-based learning component of the program, by all accounts, it seems that we were able to... Continue Reading →
2020-21 Katari Program “Gave Me the Tools to Continue to Uplift Different Stories and Fight for Marginalized Groups”
Editor’s Note: The 2020-21 Katari program, which is usually held in early November at the Manzanar National Historic Site, had to be moved to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the loss of the extremely important placed-based learning component of the program, by all accounts, it seems that we were able to... Continue Reading →
2020-21 Katari Program: “History Can Never Be Fully Discovered When Only Looking at the Surface”
Editor’s Note: The 2020-21 Katari program, which is usually held in early November at the Manzanar National Historic Site, had to be moved to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the loss of the extremely important placed-based learning component of the program, by all accounts, it seems that we were able to... Continue Reading →
2020-21 Katari Program: “I Want to Do My Best to Help Preserve and Pass on These Stories to the Next Generation”
Editor’s Note: The 2020-21 Katari program, which is usually held in early November at the Manzanar National Historic Site, had to be moved to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the loss of the extremely important placed-based learning component of the program, by all accounts, it seems that we were able to... Continue Reading →
Manzanar Committee Testimony on House Resolution 40
The following is the text of the Manzanar Committee’s written testimony presented to the House Judiciary Committee on February 17, 2021, in support of House Resolution 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. by the Manzanar Committee Social Media Committee February 12, 2021 Congressman Jerry Nadler 2132 Rayburn... Continue Reading →
2020-21 Katari Program: Connecting to Stories of Our Families and the Japanese American Community
Editor’s Note: The 2020-21 Katari program, which is usually held in early November at the Manzanar National Historic Site, had to be moved to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the loss of the extremely important placed-based learning component of the program, by all accounts, it seems that we were able to... Continue Reading →
