Remembering the Hale Mohalu movement on Kalaupapa month

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – January marks Kalaupapa Month — a time to remember the more than 8,000 residents with leprosy or Hansen’s disease who were banished to the Kalaupapa peninsula on Molokai starting in 1866. In 1865, the then Legislative Assembly passed a law that was approved by King Kamehameha…

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