February 3, 2021
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
A conversation between former national JACL Executive Director John Tateishi (author of Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations — Heyday, 2020) and Duke University Professor William Darity and Independent Scholar A. Kirste…
February 6, 2021
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
A workshop exploring how Buddhist communities in Japan and the U.S. have skillfully adapted to the constraints, suffering, and challenges from the global COVID-19 pandemic. Presentations will include an overview of religious responses to COVID-19 in Japan by Levi McLaughlin (North Carolina State Uni…
February 19, 2021
7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Producer and screenwriter Koji Steven Sakai and Ko Mori of Japan-US film and distribution company Eleven Arts are poised to develop a film based on the Madame Butterfly myth. A new play, “Madame Butterfly,” by internationally acclaimed writer Velina Hasu Houston, revisits the “Cho-…
April 4, 2021
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Is there a Buddhist approach to acknowledging and transforming America’s enduring racial karma? Larry Ward – senior Dharma teacher ordained by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and founder of the Lotus Institute – will share insights from his recently released book America’s Racial Ka…
April 13, 2021
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
A conversation with journalist, MacArthur Fellow, and National Book Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates. During his tenure as senior editor at The Atlantic, Coates wrote the influential 2014 essay “The Case for Reparations” and in 2019 testified in front of a Congressional Ho…
June 15, 2021 to June 15, 2021
4:00 PM to
Please join us for Black + Japanese American Reparations, a special virtual events series and book club. Many Black reparations advocates have pointed directly to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 granting reparations to Japanese Americans interned during World War II as a precedent that can…
