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Authors Moon-Ho Jung and Nobuko Miyamoto on a Future Beyond Anti-Asian Violence
May 27 2022
For this year's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, our authors reflect on the the verbal and violent hate crimes against AAPI communities, which increased over the last couple years with the outbreak of COVID-19. With these sad events — the recent expressions of a long legacy of racism in the U.
Not Yo’ Butterfly Virtual Book Tour
Jun 03 2021
Not Yo’ Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto—artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful west coast during World War II, Miyamoto leads readers into the landscapes that defined
Watch: Interview with Asian American Artist-Activist Nobuko Miyamoto, From Internment to Liberation
Apr 08 2021
A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an iconic Asian American artist and activist. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American "without a song of my own," she found her voice in the 1960s through the revolutionary movements occurring in the U.S. and
Announcing Author Nobuko Miyamoto’s New Album, 120,000 Stories
Dec 09 2020
Smithsonian Folkways has just announced artist and activist Nobuko Miyamoto's new album, 120,000 Stories. The album will release January 29th and is now available for pre-order.From the Smithsonian Folkways press release:120,000 Stories is...her first release since 1973’s seminal A Grain of