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As we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, we take a look back at the complicated and controversial history of the holiday.
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Who is Olive Percival? An author? A gardener? A toy maker? An advocate for suffrage, animals and trees? An insurance clerk? She's all of these and more.
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Highland Park-Mount Washington Patch readers voted Angelina Saenz, a teacher in Aldama Elemntary's dual immersion program, as "Person of the Year."
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Departures staff member, Kelly Simpson, describes her first singing flashmob on the Metro Red Line.
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The Girl Scouts celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2012 with goals to attract more Latina members.
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After graduating from high school, two youths interned at Heart Mountain concentration camp, went separate directions, one going went into the U.S. Army, the other went to prison. Both fought for their rightful place in the United States.
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Takashi Hoshizaki and his family were interned at Heart Mountain concentration camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. There he was drafted for the U.S. Army, he refused was imprisoned for three years.
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Text excerpts, photos, and an audio narrative of Stanley Hayami's diary recorded during his time as a youth in the Heart Mountain internment camp in 1944.
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Text excerpts, photos, and an audio narrative of Takashi Hoshizaki's diary recorded during his time as a youth in the Heart Mountain internment camp in 1944.
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Stanley Kunio Hayami and his family were forcibly removed from their San Gabriel home and incarcerated at Heart Mountain concentration camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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