Japanese American National Museum Stands Up for DEI

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The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) made headlines last week after the board chairman Bill Fujioka told the Los Angeles Times that JANM would continue to embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the face of widespread federal funding cuts and pressures. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in, Fujioka told the LA Times. The museum received notice on Friday that its $190,000 NEH grant to hold workshops on the history of the Little Tokyo neighborhood had been terminated “due to a change in the administration funding priorities." The institution said it would continue to embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in the face of widespread government funding cuts and pressures. An anonymous donor has since contributed enough to replace  costs for the workshop.