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Two friends casually discuss history while weaving in current pop culture and personal anecdotes

Chiyo Matsutani is a young college student in San Francisco and Hiro Fujimoto has nearly paid off the loan on his Sacramento farm. Both are American citizens when they’re rounded up in 1942 and sent to an incarceration camp where they meet, fall in love, and marry. But when they’re released three years later, Hiro’s farm - like the property of so many Japanese Americans - has been seized. They take the only jobs available to them, as housekeeper and gardener for a wealthy family in Oakland where they face casual racism, harassment, and an unending future of dreary servitude. Based on a ...

The People's Dinner Party is hosted by Suncere Ali Shakur. Suncere interviews longtime activists and revolutionaries while sharing food and drink discussing mutual aid, revolutionary ideas, solidarity, and community.