Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos.
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New Report Urges “Safety First” Approach to Government and Nonprofit Data Collections
The report, authored by Adam Beddawi, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Michele Wong, Beth Jarosz, and Jacob Pasner, introduces a “safety first” approach to data collection designed to rebuild community trust and restore participation in public programs and services.
Two Graduate Center Musicians Earn Grammy Nods
Music doctoral candidate Han Chen and Distinguished Professor Emerita Tania León are in the running for the 2026 awards.
U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze to Launch Laureateship with Inaugural Reading, Translation Programs
Sze to Appear at Queens College in New York City, at the Library of Congress and in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Hunter Faculty Member’s Book Is Finalist for National Book Award
Hunter faculty member Megha Majumdar’s second novel, A Guardian and a Thief, has been named a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction.
Key figure in Japanese American civil rights cases, dead at 105
Frank Chuman, a lawyer and longtime advocate for Japanese American civil rights who was incarcerated during World War II and later helped overturn landmark wartime convictions, has died.