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COMMENTARY: Support health equity by supporting Apple Health

December 31, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

We all hope that our communities, state, and nation will enjoy a resurgence of health, optimism, and healing in 2021.

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 1 | JANUARY 2 - JANUARY 8

COMMENTARY: The art of being

September 3, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ruth Bayang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY As I start to resume my social life and re-engage with friends in real life after almost two months in relative pandemic isolation, a popular question seems to be, “What have you been doing?” or “What are you doing lately?” Up until recently, my answer had been, “Not much.” […]

Filed Under: Editorials, Commentaries Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 36 | SEPTEMBER 5 - SEPTEMBER 11

Local public housing leaders criticize rollback in fair housing rules

August 6, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By: Andrew Lofton Executive Director, Seattle Housing Authority Stephen Norman Executive Director, King County Housing Authority Michael Mirra Executive Director, Tacoma Housing Authority Mark Gropper Executive Director, Renton Housing Authority As leaders of public housing authorities in the Puget Sound region, we are distressed that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is enacting […]

Filed Under: Commentaries, This week's issue Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 32 | AUGUST 8 - AUGUST 14

COMMENTARY: My Asian privilege

July 9, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

It can be uncomfortable to look in the mirror and acknowledge, “Yes, I am privileged.”

Filed Under: Commentaries, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 28 | JULY 11 - JULY 17

COMMENTARY: JACL: Our outrage for George Floyd’s murder is not enough

June 11, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

It has been weeks since George Floyd was lynched by four Minneapolis police officers. The death of George Floyd was preventable, as were the deaths of Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Nina Pop, Breonna Taylor, Sean Reed, Charleena Lyles, and countless other Black lives who have been lost to systemic racism in the United States.  Officer […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 24 | JUNE 13 - JUNE 19

COMMENTARY: Asian bashing and lessons from Loving

May 28, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By James K. Doane In 1967, the United States Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, unanimously struck down a Virginia law that banned marriage between persons classified as “white” and  persons classified  as “colored.” Virginia residents Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Loving, an African and Native American woman, had been convicted of violating […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 22 | MAY 30 - JUNE 5

COMMENTARY: The future of work: An epidemic of inequality? — Without action to close equity gaps, the world of work won’t change for the better

April 30, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

COVID-19 has exposed deep inequities in Washington’s economy and health system.

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 18 | MAY 2 - MAY 8

GUEST EDITORIAL: A time to remember what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II

April 9, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mike Dillon It’s been a year since my slender book, “Departures: Poetry and Prose on the Removal of Bainbridge Island’s Japanese Americans After Pearl Harbor,” was published by Unsolicited Press in Portland. I wrote most of “Departures” in the first half of 2016, during the rise of Donald Trump. Here we go again, I […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 15 | APRIL 11 - APRIL 17

COMMENTARY: A time for solidarity between the Asian American and Jewish American communities

March 26, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A little more than a month ago, the COVID-19 crisis was seen as an East Asia problem. Two weeks ago, here in the United States, it was viewed as a Seattle-centric issue.

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 13 | MARCH 28 - APRIL 3

COMMENTARY: Asian people are not a disease

March 26, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

As terms like “Chinese Virus,” “Wuhan Virus,” and “Kung Flu” are increasingly used by the president and other leaders in our country, so do we see the increase of racially-based hate crimes and xenophobia against people of Asian descent. While President Trump has defended his usage of these types of terms, as “not racist at all,” the impacts on our communities tell a different story.

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 13 | MARCH 28 - APRIL 3

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