Seiji Yamashita is a Japanese-American jazz pianist and a duPont Columbia Award winning video journalist at CBS News based in Washington, D.C.
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The bookstore focuses on AAPI authors and immigrant stories.
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Despite wearing a white coat and scrubs, this Asian woman was beaten and assailed with racial slurs
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The district is home to the oldest town incorporated by freed African Americans.