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Professor Linda Tamura, author of "Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River" explains the national notoriety which Hood River, Oregon received after WWII, and how and why she broke the code of silence surrounding the situation.  Tamura's related exhi... Read more

We feature interviews with several APA authors in this month's APA Compass program.ABA Award and Pushcart Prize winning author, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni speaks of how she portrays the complex mixture of the contemporary and the traditional which is found in today's Ind... Read more

Author and storyteller CP Chang speaks about the challenges of interracial relationships and the challenges of telling those stories.  CP is with the Chicago storytelling collective, 2nd Story, and a contributor to the anthology, "Briefly Knocked Unconscious By A Low Fly... Read more

ABA award winning author and film maker Ruth Ozeki presents her latest novel, "A Tale for the Time Being", which brings together themes and personalities from Tokyo and British Columbia.  Interviewed by Marie Lo; produced by Marie Lo and Kushlani de Soyza. Read more

Tune in to APA Compass this Friday, May 3, 2013 at 9 AM.  We feature * An APA Call to Action from Grant High School student Sara Onitsuka on proposed cuts to next year's Japanese program* Comedian Jenny Yang, co-founder of the first-ever, all female, Asian American stand... Read more

Award-winning children's author, illustrator, and designer, Salina Yoon, chats with producer Andrew Yeh at the annual Wordstock Festival in Portland.  Salina explains how she chooses the ethnicities of her characters and why her work is the antithesis of electronic books... Read more

Writer and comedian Jenny Yang’s live performances draw from her experiences as an immig­rant, Asian American and recov­ering overa­chiever. Jenny co-founded the first-ever all female, Asian American standup comedy tour, Dis/orient/ed Comedy, which highlights the powerfu... Read more

In this month's PopWatch segment, Kushlani takes on racism in a recent Chevy ad and discusses the latest news about Lela Lee's Angry Little Girls comic strip and Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin. Post-show edit from Kushlani: Someone just asked me why "ching chong"... Read more

Grant High School, Portland, has proposed cuts to its well-regarded and well-loved Japanese immersion and language program for the upcoming academic year.  Student Sara Onitsuka presents this APA Call to Action, and encourages everyone to show support for the program at ... Read more

Tune in to APA Compass this Friday, April 5, 2013 at 9 AM.  We feature segments with* Professor Ann Wetherell tells us why Portland had an unusually large number of Chinese-American pilots in the early 1900s.  Professor Wetherell is the curator of "Flying Tigers: Chinese... Read more