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One pillar of American education is the network of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Founded to give free blacks access to higher education in …
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Discover Nikkei readers may know taiko as an originally Japanese art, heard on obon nights as grandmothers encourage the community to join in a circular …
It’s back to school, and for some, it’s off to college for the first time. My friend, who got a tattoo when she went away …
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My mother passed away last October at the age of 92 and there are so many things about her that I will never know. Mom …
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This spring, ten students in the Occidental College Asian Studies seminar “Japanophilia” had the opportunity to get to know some of the business leaders of …
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