@DMo
DMo is a writer based in Los Angeles, specializing in the arts and the nonprofit sector. A Sansei and a native of Southern California, he has written for UCLA and the Japanese American National Museum, where he serves as a volunteer. He currently works in fundraising and external relations for Art Center College of Design.
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Summer of the Big Bachi: Naomi Hirahara’s Japanese American Mystery
In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Naomi Hirahara’s first Mas Arai novel, Summer of the Big B…
Dec. 30, 2024
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A Chilling Nikkei Detective Thriller: Cold to the Touch by Kerri Hakoda
Anchorage Homicide Detective DeHavilland Beans looks forward to starting every morning with coffee …
Dec. 16, 2024
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Stories of The Unsung Great: Author Greg Robinson on Exploring Japanese American History
“I have told many times the story of how years ago I came across some of Franklin D. Roosevelt's wr…
May 28, 2021
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Echoes of History: Sound Artist Alan Nakagawa and the Hiroshima Legacy
“You could feel everyone in the park staring,” Alan Nakagawa says. “Why do they get to go in the Do…
March 10, 2020
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atomic bomb
Atomic Bomb Dome
Enola Gay (bomber)
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Genbaku Dome
Hiroshima (city)
Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Hiroshima Prefecture
historic sites
history
Japan
Japanese American National Museum
Japanese American National Museum (organization)
memorials
monuments
Under the Mushroom Cloud (film)
war
war memorials
World War II
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Visual Communications and 50 Years of Asian Pacific American Stories
“Growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s, we were subjected to stereotypical portraits or invisibil…
July 30, 2019
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Faces of Civil Rights, Then and Now: Paul Kitagaki Jr.'s Gambatte! Project
“The faces from the photographs staring up at me as I searched for my family in the National Archiv…
Jan. 24, 2019
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Commemorating a Justice Landmark: 30 Years of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
It took just seconds for U.S. President Ronald Reagan to sign the document. Yet the journey to that…
Dec. 12, 2018
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California
Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Common Ground (exhibition)
Daniel K. Inouye
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Go For Broke National Education Center
Japanese American National Museum
Japanese American National Museum (organization)
Japanese Americans
John Esaki
law
legislation
Little Tokyo
Los Angeles
Mitchell T. Maki
Redress movement
retired military personnel
Spark Matsunaga
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U.S. Senate
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World War II
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Q&A with Artist Kip Fulbeck: The Continuing Legacy of The Hapa Project - Part 2
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DN: Now that you’re a parent, are the conversations about identity you may have had…
June 28, 2018
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Q&A with Artist Kip Fulbeck: The Continuing Legacy of The Hapa Project - Part 1
Artist/writer/performer Kip Fulbeck launched The Hapa Project in 2001, photographing more than 1,20…
June 27, 2018
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Transpacific Borderlands: Behind the Scenes with Artist Shinpei Takeda
“Some people think my work looks like it’s speaking something like a megaphone,” says Shinpei Taked…
Feb. 2, 2018
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