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How Basketball Helped Revitalize the Yellow Brotherhood

Nick Nagatani played on the Dorsey High basketball team as a teenager and went on to use the sport as a way to renew the Yellow Brotherhood as an adult. Nagatani, alongside Nathan Masters, revisits his old stomping grounds to shoot hoops and reflect on his experience as a Japanese American growing up in Crenshaw.

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