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Japanese-American World War II Nisei Soldiers of the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service were recently celebrated in Portland, Oregon. This tribute included bringing together the honored veterans from Oregon and... Read more

Japanese-American World War II Nisei Soldiers of the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service were recently celebrated in Portland, Oregon. This tribute included bringing together the honored veterans from Oregon and... Read more

Japanese-American World War II Nisei Soldiers of the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service were recently celebrated in Portland, Oregon.  This tribute included bringing together the honored veterans from Oregon and... Read more

Tune in to APA Compass this Friday, September 5, 2012, at 9 A.M.  Atsuko Okatsuka, co-founder of the all-female APA comedy group dis/orient/ed, speaks about the challenges of being an Asian-American in entertainment. Local community organizer, Dr. Thuy Tran, encoura... Read more

APA Compass introduces our newest collective member and features two prominent media missteps involving Asians and Asian-Americans:We feature a tribute to our dear friend and colleague, Afifa Ahmed Shafi, a founding member of our APA Compass collective, who passed away July... Read more

We feature a tribute to our dear friend and colleague, Afifa Ahmed Shafi, a founding member of our collective, who passed away July 29, 2013. Produced by Liz Rogers, and content from Afifa Ahmed Shafi and Sarika Mehta. Read more

Asawin Suebsaeng reports on how both new and traditional media misidentified a missing Brown University student, Sunil Tripathi, as the Boston marathon bombing suspect.  Read the Mother Jones article.Interviewed and produced by Andrew Yeh. Read more

Bobby Caina Calvan describes how multiple news outlets were taken in by a racist hoax following the crash of Asiana flight 214, and how similar mistakes could be avoided in the future.  Read the article "Having more diverse newsrooms won’t always prevent errors like KTVU’s,... Read more

Today, APA Compass features two silenced stories:  Professor Linda Tamura, author of "Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River".  She explains the national notoriety which Hood River, Oregon, received after WWII, and how and why she broke the code of si... Read more