Two Asian American women pioneers who built strong relationships with the African American community are being featured in an article by Kathy Ko Chin, published in the News Tribune.
Grace Lee Boggs is still active and passionate at the age of 98.
She has spent her life advocating for civil and labor rights. She authored the book The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century and is the subject of a documentary playing at CAAMFest in San Francisco, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs.
Yuri Kochiyama was forced into an incarceration camp after Pearl Harbor shortly after her father died.
She was an associate of Malcolm X and held him after a gunman shot and killed him in New York City in 1965.
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She is a strong supporter of nuclear disarmament, Asian American and women’s rights at the age of 92.
Chin paid tribute to both women to mark Women’s History Month.
Chin said both inspired her to dedicate herself to the cause of immigrant women.
You can read about Chin’s passion in the News Tribune.
