August 13, 2025

Hello AACP Newsletter Blog Readers.

Hope you are having a good August and summer.

You can now read our July 2025 newsletter by clicking on the above link or this one.

Regarding our article for July’s newsletter, we had a serendipitous phone call right when I was talking with our intern Charles Zhong. The call came from a documentary filmmaker named Gary Ono. Ono’s family was incarcerated at the Amache internment camp in Colorado during World War II, and his film is about his father’s experience during the war working at a radio station that broadcasted propaganda programs to Japan. I asked Gary Ono if he would be interested in doing an interview with our intern and he said yes. So please check out this interesting interview, “An Interview with Photographer and Documentary Maker Gary Ono.”

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For those of you that still have some time for a summer read, check out our July summer reading book selection.

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We received a message from Jiaying Luo, a research assistant at the University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing. She asked for our help in finding Asian American breast cancer survivors for their study. Here is a web page that will give you more information about their needs – click here. Here is another link with information - their flyer. Perhaps you can post it for them.

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We were recently interviewed for an article by Dana Chiueh. Check out “Inside the Oldest Asian American Bookstore in the United States.”

That’s all for now.

Those that are going back to school soon, good luck with your studies. Remember that what’s important is actually learning and not just the grades.

Take care.

Leonard Chan