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She has been the president of the Puyallup Valley Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) for 17 years. Taniguchi and her colleagues in JACL are now focusing on a subcommittee called “Camp Harmony Committee” to tell the next generation what happened in the incarceration camps in 1942. Bill Tashima, the past president of the Seattle JACL, has known Taniguchi for a long time. In his eyes, Taniguchi is a big part of other organizations as well.
For most Black women, seeing ourselves portrayed in the media is a painful experience. Other people see these stereotypical depictions and set ridiculous expectations that every Black woman should be the same. I am here to tell them otherwise. Through this photo series, I asked a group of young Black women to share their feelings about the way society tells us we should look, think and act, and how they’ve responded to those expectations in their own lives.
Black Al Qaeda, ESL, Riots of the Pirates, ISIS — With album titles like those, it’s clear that Seattle-based rap group Malitia MaliMob doesn’t shy away from controversy. “We’re trying to change people’s perceptions of who Somalis are,” says Chino’o one of the founders and lead MC of the group. Perception is personal for Chino’o — who was born Guled Diriye to Somali parents who fled to a refugee camp in Kenya when he was a child.
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