JACL’s Top Chefs: food, family and chapter kitchens
Food was the subject of this 16-page issue, which carried the cover line “JACL’s Top Chefs.” Nalea J. Ko profiled…
Category: Issue archive
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JACL budget, taiko, and the Pacific Citizen’s future
The national board’s vote to cover a $106,426 deficit from 2010 by drawing $100,000 from National Endowment Fund earnings led…
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The 2011 ‘Extraordinary APAs’ issue: profiles of 18 community leaders
Profiles of extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans filled this special issue. Executive editor Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom explained how the P.C. editorial…
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Japan relief, organic farming and a question of wartime loyalty
Relief for Japan after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami ran through this 16-page issue. JACL and Direct Relief International…
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Japan’s earthquake, and the Japanese Americans of the Jet Age
Japan’s earthquake and tsunami ran through this issue. Nalea J. Ko reported that American donations passed $161 million as the…
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Japan’s earthquake and tsunami, and Asian American Studies in peril
Japan’s earthquake and tsunami dominated this 16-page issue. Floyd Mori, JACL National Director, looked back on a tumultuous week that…
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Body image, young Japanese Americans and Day of Remembrance
Body image and cultural connection led the March 4, 2011 issue. Nalea J. Ko wrote about eating disorders among Asian…
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Day of Remembrance 2011: Camp memorials, civil rights and JACL’s name
Day of Remembrance events led the news, with the cover pointing readers to page 7. The Livingston-Merced and Cortez JACL…
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Korematsu Day, Ellison Onizuka and the debate over the JACL name
Fred Korematsu Day and the Challenger anniversary led the news. Christine McFadden reported on California’s first Fred Korematsu Day at…
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A special New Year’s issue: JACL leaders and the year 2010 in review
JACL leaders took stock of the organization at the start of 2011. National President David H. Kawamoto thanked volunteers and…
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The 2010 holiday issue: a history of JACL national conventions
JACL’s national conventions, from 1929 to 2010, filled this 120-page issue. Harry K. Honda wrote a timeline of every convention…
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JACL’s deficit, its name, and the DREAM Act, November 2010
A projected deficit and a debate over the JACL’s name ran through this 16-page issue. Nalea J. Ko reported that…
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Nisei veterans and the Congressional Gold Medal
Japanese American military service ran through this 16-page issue. A three-page roundtable by Nalea J. Ko brought together thirteen veterans…
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Gold Medal for Nisei veterans, and a dairy feedlot near Minidoka
President Obama signed the Congressional Gold Medal bill honoring Japanese American veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental…
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Gold Medal for Nisei veterans, and the NYC mosque parallel
Congress passed the Congressional Gold Medal bill for Japanese American World War II veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team,…
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JACL scholarship winners on keeping the organization relevant
The 2010 National JACL Scholarships and Awards Program filled most of this issue. The program dates back to 1946, and…
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Gulf Coast fishermen, judicial nominees and Korematsu Day
Fallout from the BP oil spill ran through this issue. Nalea J. Ko reported on Vietnamese American fishermen in Biloxi,…
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Birthright citizenship, Prop. 8 and a Gold Medal for Nisei soldiers
The debate over repealing birthright citizenship ran through this issue. Nalea J. Ko and Caroline Aoyagi-Stom reported that the proposal…