24-09-2025 11:00 via npr.org

NPR's middle school champion: A moving podcast about Japanese American incarceration

For the first time, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge has a returning champion: a California fifth grader who explored a dark chapter in U.S. history during World War II.(Image credit: Talia Herman)

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