An internal awakening to the shadows of history in Little Tokyo and WWII-era Bronzeville. During the WWII Japanese American incarceration, Little Tokyo became known as Bronzeville's center for Black business, culture, and jazz. Yet the hope for a postwar Black and Japanese American community was never realized. to peer through veils awakens this shared experience of racism and the potential power of solidarity. Reckoning with the echoes of ancestral and societal history, how do we move forward?