Akira Olivia Kumamoto

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Akira is a writer based in Long Beach, California. She is currently a video producer for Humankind/USA Today.

Stories

Cover Photo: photo via wikimedia
What Internment Did to My Family

The court finally condemned Korematsu v. US, but the lessons of history are being overlooked by those claiming to have recognized them.

Cover Photo: photo courtesy of the author and her mother
My Mother’s Secret Garden

The students turned a gray patch of earth into their own tiny Eden, a secret oasis of their own.