Yuri Kochiyama was a second-generation Japanese American citizen, wife, mother and dedicated activist for human rights and social justice. Her personal experiences of incarceration and displacement during WWII, education under Malcolm X, membership in the Organization of Afro American Unity (OAAU) and participation in the Harlem Freedom Schools and many of the social justice movements and struggles that emerged in the second half of the 20th century would lay the path for her lifelong commitment to studying history, building cross movement, cross racial solidarity and supporting struggles for liberation and human rights in the U.S. and internationally. Over the course of more than 50 years of building community, organizing, marching, speaking, writing, archiving, educating, and hosting guests and gatherings in her Harlem home 365 days a year, Yuri continued to self-educate, “build bridges” and promote radical love and solidarity in defense of human dignity and self-determination for all oppressed people until the end of her life in 2014.