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Feb 2025
29m 46s

Mitsuye Endo (feat. Anna Suzuki)

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Season Finale. Nimene makes a brand new hip-hop track with special guest Anna Suzuki about Mitsuye Endo, a Japanese American who took her fight against racism all the way to the Supreme Court, helping to bring about the end of Japanese American internment during World War II. 

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