1940s 'Safe Spaces': The Man Who Tried to Save His Students From Internment

Berkeley’s Daily Gazette didn’t publish Sunday editions. So on Monday, December 8, 1941, area residents found something interesting in their newspapers. For the first time in years, the Gazette offered an extra section — one detailing the enormity of what had happened the day before: Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. One of the readers was University […]

What it’s like inside the internment camps China uses to oppress its Muslim minority, according to people who’ve been there

Kevin Frayer/Getty Images China is accused of detaining up to 1 million Uighur Muslims in internment camps in the western region of Xinjiang. Two Uighurs who had been inside those camps have told BBC Newsnight about the physical and psychological torture that goes on there. One described being shackled to a chair, deprived of sleep, […]

1940s 'Safe Spaces': The Man Who Tried to Save His Students From Internment

Berkeley’s Daily Gazette didn’t publish Sunday editions. So on Monday, December 8, 1941, area residents found something interesting in their newspapers. For the first time in years, the Gazette offered an extra section — one detailing the enormity of what had happened the day before: Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. One of the readers was University […]

Google’s latest doodle honors Fred Korematsu, the activist who fought against Japanese internment camps (GOOG)

Google Call it Google’s first sub-doodle. In the week following President Trump’s orders to build a border wall with Mexico and a ban of immigrants from seven predominately Muslim countries, Google’s Doodle Monday celebrated Fred Korematsu, the civil rights activist who fought against Japanese internment camps in the US during World War II. Korematsu would’ve […]