You Don't Say No To Yuri Kochiyama (ft. Fred Ho, Diane C. Fujino, Baba Herman Ferguson, Esperanza Martell, Laura Whitehorn)




AAWW Radio: New Asian American Writers & Literature show

Summary: We’re reaching back over a decade into our archives to 2005, when activist and saxophonist Fred Ho invited Yuri Kochiyama's friends & contemporaries Baba Herman Ferguson, Esperanza Martell, & Laura Whitehorn to our space to speak on Yuri's legacy as a radical Asian American political activist. Diane C. Fujino, author of Yuri Kochiyama's biography Heartbeat of Struggle, talks about her political awakening from her early years in a concentration camp, to her friendship with Malcolm X in New York City.