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Matter Of Fact Listening Tour To Expand Conversations About Race And Justice With Second Special On Thursday, March 18
Soledad O Brien Hosts To Be an American: Identity, Race and Justice, Across Hearst Digital Media Outlets Reaching Millions of Consumers
Guests Include Judas and the Black Messiah Director Shaka King, Historians Eric Foner and Annette Gordon-Reed, Author Jose Antonio Vargas and 1619 Project Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones
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NEW YORK, March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Matter of Fact Listening Tour, hosted by Soledad O Brien, continues its exploration of difficult issues surrounding race and equity in a new digital presentation, To Be An American: Identity, Race And Justice. The special will stream beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, March 18, on matteroffact.tv and Hearst consumer media digital platforms reaching millions of consumers.
Takano and Hirono Renew Efforts to Award Korematsu Congressional Gold Medal
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Mark Takano (D-Riverside) and Sen. Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) on Feb. 2 introduced bicameral legislation to award Fred Korematsu the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of his legacy of fighting against the illegal incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and for being a staunch defender of civil rights.
Fred Korematsu was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“Fred Korematsu was a fierce advocate for justice, a civil rights icon, and a defender of the rights of all people,” said Takano. “In the face of injustice and while human rights atrocities were being carried out by our very own government, he stood up for the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II. During that time and all these years later, he was and will always be an inspiration to every person fighting to make America a more inclusive, just, and equal
Santa Anita Park in Arcadia and Fairplex in Pomona, then known as the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, were both Civilian Assembly Centers, temporary camps where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities.
Eventually, most were sent to Relocation Centers, also known as internment camps. Japanese Americans considered to be disruptive or of special interest to the government were sent to Detention Camps.
Korematsu lost an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in 1944 that the incarceration was justified due to military necessity.
Legal historian Peter Irons and researcher Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga discovered key documents in 1983 that government intelligence agencies had hidden from the Supreme Court before it made its ruling. They consistently showed that Japanese Americans had committed no acts of treason to justify mass incarceration, leading a federal court to overturn Korematsu s conviction.
Fred Korematsu Day to Be Celebrated Virtually
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The hourlong celebration will mark the 10
th anniversary of the first Fred Korematsu Day in California, which was established by legislation introduced by Assemblymembers Warren Furutani (D-Gardena) and Marty Block (D-San Diego) and signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010. Fred Korematsu Day has since been established in other states and cities.
The day is observed on Jan. 30, the day Korematsu was born in 1919 in Oakland. He passed away in 2005 at the age of 86.
Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized the removal of individuals of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast from their homes and their mandatory imprisonment. Korematsu disobeyed the order and became a fugitive under an assumed identity, but was eventually arrested.