The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) has joined 77 other organizations to honor community advocate Fred T. Korematsu ...

Born to Japanese immigrants in Oakland, he was arrested for refusing to be incarcerated based on his ethnicity.

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86.

Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution was established under a bill by Assemblymen Warren Furutani, ...

A Lansing road continues to have lane closures and today is Fred Korematsu Day across Michigan. Find out what is happening today in your neighborhood.

California on Thursday will observe Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, remembering the shipyard welder who challenged the constitutionality of the incarceration of Japanese ...

Nineteen people received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, conservationist Jane Goodall, science educator Bill Nye, basketball legend "Magic ...

Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi didn’t set out to be a civil rights hero. And she didn’t promote herself as one. But she played a key role in ending the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans – many of them U ...

The inspirational story of Fred Korematsu, who challenged the mass imprisonment of over 125,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, will be the subject of a special lecture by his daughter at ...

Bush (l) presents Pope John Paul II with the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in the Sala Clementina, June 4, 2004, in Vatican City. (photo: TIM SLOAN / AFP via Getty Images) ...

President Joe Biden honoured Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the highest civilian award, recognising his faith, hope, and love impacting the world.

President Joe Biden on Saturday honoured Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the highest civilian award given by the president, saying the pontiff was “a light ...