Garland McLaurin

The FBI has released previously unpublished images of the devastation and grim aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon.

American Airlines Flight 77, commandeered by al-Qaeda terrorists, slammed into the side of the building, killing 184 people, including 59 passengers and crew and the five hijackers.

The plane hit between the first and second floors of the Pentagon.

Modern medical science is absolutely amazing. We are learning so much these days and with ever-growing rapidity. The new information rushes at us like a speeding train. However, that said, our understanding of the brain is in its infancy. We are still in the stone age when it comes to understanding the brain and how it works. The late Carl Sagan once said that as far as we as a species know, the human brain may be the most complex thing in the universe.

THE “ASSEMBLY CENTERS”

“We went to the stable, Tanforan Assembly Center. It was terrible. The government moved the horses out and put us in. The stable stunk awfully. I felt miserable, but I couldn’t do anything. It was like a prison, guards on duty all the time, and there was barbed wire all around us.”

     -Osuke Takizawa

After they were removed from their communities, Japanese Americans were taken to one of 15 temporary holding facilities called “assembly centers.” These makeshift facilities were erected in requisitioned county fairgrounds, horse racetracks, and other large public spaces and operated by the army’s Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA).  All were under military supervision—surrounded by barbed wire and armed sentries.

The “assembly centers” were crowded and uncomfortable. Some residents lived in hastily cleared and painted horse stalls and livestock pens, others in flimsy housing erected in parking lots and other open spaces.  Entire families were crowded into single rooms.  Each person was issued a mattress cover and instructed to fill it with straw to make their bedding. People stood in line three times a day to eat in mess halls and waited in other lines to use shower and toilet facilities.  

The Japanese Americans remained in the “assembly centers” while permanent “relocation centers” were under construction inland. Eventually, they would be transferred to one of these ten permanent camps.

Mahershala, drawn in PS.

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Hidden Figures dir. Theodore Melfi 

A Tribe Called Quest // Award Tour