Cover Story – AMERICAN DREAM
Jackie Kojima
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
For professional opera singer Nina Yoshida Nelsen, the path of life has been full of unexpected twists and turns. But she would not have had it any other way.
Born...
Cover Story – BEING BLASIAN
Summer Nakaishi
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
In the midst of the global pandemic, Sascha Koki discovered something unexpected — her curls. Sascha, a thirty-something Japanese and Black woman, had been straightening her hair as soon...
Dialogue – SOLIDARITY
Kristen Nemoto Jay
Commentary
Growing up in Hawai‘i, I never really felt “othered” in terms of my race. As a mixed plate of Japanese, Okinawan, Hawaiian and Norwegian, my background wasn’t questioned as most of my...
Rainbow Connections – THE GIFT OF GAMAN
Trisha Y. Nakamura
Hawai‘i Herald Columnist
In photos of Malcolm X taken after he was murdered, a young woman is cradling his head. She is wearing cat-eye glasses and has a scarf on her head. She...
Cover Story – WE ARE BG
Lindsay Kagawa Colas
Commentary, Republished with permission
Los Angeles Times, April 26, 2022
Editor’s note: It’s been nearly a year since Brittney Griner, the 32 year old two-time Olympic gold medalist, was detained in Russia on Feb....
Dialogue – CHOOSE LOVE NOT WAR
Kristen Nemoto Jay
Commentary
It’s quite unbelievable how the effects of war can have on everyone. Whether you’re a descendent of a soldier, a veteran yourself, or lived during the conflict, the tentacles of a war’s...
Cover Story – HAPPY 2023!
The Hawai‘i Herald’s Year to Shine
Kristen Nemoto Jay
Commentary
If I had to sum up the past three years in three words for The Hawai‘i Herald, it would be: adapt (2020), learn (2021) and grow (2022)....
Rainbow Connections – LOVE WITHOUT APOLOGY
Camaron Miyamoto
Hawai‘i Herald Columnist
"Love without apology.” That is a lesson I learned from my Nisei grandparents, Toshi Oshima Miyamoto and Mikio Miyamoto. They dared to embrace love at a time of war, and even...
Cover Story – ALOHA ‘OE, DR. FRANKLIN ODO
Remembering a Brilliant Scholar and a Special Mentor and Friend
Karleen Chinen
Commentary, Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
“If you don’t control your own culture and your own vision of life, and your own participation in life,...
Dialogue – IN MEMORIAM
Kristen Nemoto Jay
Commentary
Every New Year’s Eve since I can remember, I watched the ball drop in New York City’s Time Square on television. I loved watching the people, bundled up in their marshmallow jackets,...
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