Jojo Tran, a Vietnamese native who once fought deportation, took the oath of citizenship on April 18, 2018. Read the full story next week in the Northwest Asian Weekly
The Seattle Times has Large shoes to fill
By Nina Huang Northwest Asian Weekly After nearly 37 years working at The Seattle Times, the city’s “voice of reason,” Jerry Large, has retired. Friends and family celebrated his illustrious journalism career on Friday, Apr. 6, at the Northwest African American Museum. Born in Clovis, N.M. in 1954, Large and his two brothers were raised […]
Children of Korematsu, Hirabayashi, Yasui file Supreme Court brief challenging Trump travel ban
By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY SEATTLE — Seattle University School of Law’s Korematsu Center for Law and Equality joined an amicus curiae group in filing a U.S. Supreme Court brief on April 5, supporting the challengers in the ongoing Muslim travel ban litigation. The amici include the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality […]
Chinatown’s new beat cop
By Becky Chan NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY As promised, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) delivered, in Officer Young Jun Lim. Lim is one of three additional officers assigned to the redrawn boundaries of the West Precinct, which now includes Little Saigon. In her January announcement of the expanded precinct, Chief of Police Carmen Best indicated one […]
Federal Way’s first Vietnamese councilmember answers the call to serve
By Joshua Holland NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Often framed perfectly in history books, defining moments in action look unassuming as they unfold. This was the scene when Hoang V. Tran decided, after 27 years of working at the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services helping people obtain basic food, medical, and childcare, he wanted […]
Prohibition-era murals found at former Seattle hotel
By NICOLE BRODEUR The Seattle Times SEATTLE (AP) — Tanya Woo used to cry when she started down the basement stairs of the building on King Street, and when you look up, you see why: On a now-faded sign painted on the wall above is a wooden arm that looks to be hanging in midair. […]
A lesson in determination
By Jessica Kai Curry NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Looking at Vera Koo’s achievements, it’s amazing that they’re all attributed to one person. Surely, it would take four or five people to amass that many awards! In fact, it’s all her — Vera Koo, 71 years young, Chinese American, entrepreneur, mother and wife, multi-time world and national […]
Bruce Lee exhibit at Wing Luke continues with 4th installment
By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly “A Dragon Lives Here: Do you know Bruce?” continues its popular run with its fourth installment, featuring more of Bruce Lee’s personal effects at the Wing Luke Museum in the International District. Standup comedian and host of CNN’s “United Shades of America,” W. Kamau Bell provides a video introduction […]
Camas inventor learns hard lesson on protecting patents
By TROY BRYNELSON The Columbian VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — On the first day of the biggest annual convention for their industry, Shane Chen’s wife began to cry. Hoverboards, a rideable toy patented by Chen before they shot to popularity in 2015, whirred around the showroom floor. They were not his, but knockoffs that the couple […]
Filmmaker Long Tran attacks Hollywood’s deep-seated stereotypes
By Jessica Kai Curry NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Asian boy meets white girl. They fall in love. They endure hardship, but in the end, love prevails. It’s a scene that has played out hundreds of times in Western cinema. Oh wait. No, it isn’t. Unless you are watching the upcoming short film by Vietnamese American director, […]
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