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The final minutes of the last episode of the new three-part documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” produced by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, are not about the Holocaust. Instead the filmmakers show us the following montage: the signing of the 1965 Immigration Act, whi...

On May 2, 1992 about a week after the so-called Los Angeles Riots, 30,000 Koreans marched against police brutality and for a vision of racial equity that included them. The L.A. Riots were the explosion of a series of heinous events, most known the murder of Latasha Harlins by Soon-ja Du and a sente...

The dragon is awakening I feel it moving, rolling, I feel the heat of its breath against my ribcage I feel its heartbeat quicken Mine quickens in response I thought it would sleep forever Lulled into permanent slumber By the love I found in my family Removing the need To watch it burn Vi...