Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples, hosted a 4 series panel between March to May 2022, on ‘The intersections of Trafficking & Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People (MMIWG2)’ (MMIWG2 now known as Missing and Murdered Indigenous People MMIP) Listen to Cari Herthel Tribal Vice Chair, The Esselen Tribe of Monterey County … Continued
Morning Star Gali and Yuki Committee discuss the passage of AB 1936 and the difficulties in communicating with UC Hastings regarding changing the school name. AB 1936 authorizes the University of California Hastings Law College of the Law to remove the name of its founder, Serranus C. Hastings from the school’s name and specifies restorative … Continued
Morning Star Gali & Assemblymember James C. Ramos discuss Tribal Bills including AB 2022 that removes the slur S**AW from California public lands, landmarks, and geographic locations. *The story is fully introduced and credited, plus a full song by Calina Lawrence is included at the end, with permission by Calina. Calina provides the music bedding … Continued
We bring you a story from producer Elizabeth Santos, who traces the roots of one Filipino tradition, balikbayan boxes, to a complicated history while exploring a personal family mystery. Photo: Exterior view of San Francisco International Airport. From Pixabay.
Colonial Donuts is a 24-hour donut shop in Oakland by Lake Merritt. It’s also one of many Cambodian immigrant-owned donut shops in California. That’s thanks to Ted Ngoy, also known as the Donut King, a Cambodian-American refugee. In the 1970s and 80s, he helped other Cambodian refugees run and buy donuts stores across the state. … Continued
In Berkeley, in front of a house on Hearst Avenue is a small plaque that proclaims “Birthplace of the Asian American Movement.” It was here in May of 1968 where Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee, two UC Berkeley students, called a meeting with other students of Asian descent to form a political organization – the first … Continued
In this episode of KPFA Presents, we have a story about one of the oldest and largest surviving Japanese districts in the United States: San Francisco’s Japantown. Here to show us more about that neighborhood and its history is KPFA’s Scott Baba. Photo: View of Japan Center Mall in San Francisco. Credit: by Michael Ocampo … Continued
KPFA brings you a special hour-long show about Asian-American heritage and identity in the Bay Area. We’ll take you to a street in Berkeley named after a South Asian activist, to San Francisco Airport where Filipino Americans are waiting for a twice-daily flight to Manila, and the family story behind one of Oakland’s only 24-hour … Continued
For the month of May, KFPA radio is celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage month! The Powerleegirls from APEX Express will be hosting a series of shorts on Asian American activists – both elder and present day change makers – and making some guest appearances. In this short, the Powerleegirls present Anirvan Chatterjee co-founder of the … Continued
For the month of May, KFPA radio is celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage month! The Powerleegirls from APEX Express will be hosting a series of shorts on Asian American activists – both elder and present day change makers – and making some guest appearances. In this short, the Powerleegirls present Hāwane Rios, Native Hawaiian singer, … Continued
