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COMMENTARY: Getting asked, “Where are you really from?” is all too common in the AAPI community. It’s time to flip the script.

December 29, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jo-Ann Yoo and Curtis S. Chin There are more than 125,000 Asian Americans living in Seattle, and according to the U.S. Census, a record 22 million Asian Americans trace their roots to more than 20 countries in East and Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Yet, when we are inevitably asked the question, “Where […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2022, VOL 41 NO 1 | JANUARY 1 - JANUARY 7

COMMENTARY: Asian food is not a panacea for Asian racism

September 2, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Like so many first-generation immigrant kids, my elementary and middle school years were plagued by an overwhelming desire to abandon my Chinese roots and embody the platonic ideal of an “American” kid.

Filed Under: Commentaries, Featured stories Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 36 | SEPTEMBER 4 - SEPTEMBER 10

COMMENTARY: JACL statement on Afghan refugee crisis

August 26, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The scenes that have come out of Afghanistan in the last few days are all too familiar to many within the Asian American community, with many people noting the eerie similarity to images from the Fall of Saigon in 1975. Then, just as now, the United States has a duty to help those scared and […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 35 | AUGUST 28 - SEPTEMBER 3

COMMENTARY: New shelter concerns

August 3, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The City of Seattle, in partnership with the Africatown Community Land Trust (ACLT), will open a new 125-room, 24/7 “enhanced shelter” at the former Keiro nursing home site. 

Filed Under: Commentaries, Featured stories

COMMENTARY: Asian American Studies at Bellevue College

June 17, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In the article “Invisible Course at Bellevue College Highlights AAPI Advocacy,” published on June 10, 2021 by Northwest Asian Weekly, that highlights the exclusion of Asian American studies from the 2021-2022 Bellevue College (BC) annual class schedule, BC’s Interim President Gary Locke is found saying that the exclusion happened due to a “misunderstanding.”

Filed Under: Commentaries, Featured stories Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 25 | JUNE 19 - JUNE 25

COMMENTARY: To fight anti-Asian racism, we need to tell our stories

May 13, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

I remember the exact moment I heard the news that the coronavirus had been traced to a city in China. My first thought was that it was just a matter of time before the scapegoating would begin.

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 20 | MAY 15 - MAY 21

COMMENTARY: The big lie in Volunteer Park

May 13, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

After George Floyd’s gruesome killing triggered a national reckoning about anti-Black violence, toxic legacies of slavery, and systemic racism, the recent massacre in Asian-operated businesses in Atlanta has broadened the debate to include endemic anti-Asian violence and hate in America.

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 20 | MAY 15 - MAY 21

COMMENTARY: The fight against anti-Asian hate must include fighting economic racism

May 6, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Shomya Tripathy For Northwest Asian Weekly This past year, the Asian community has experienced a heightened level of racism, violence, and harassment. As a result, community members are rightfully fearful of the physical violence they might encounter on the street, at the workplace, or in their homes. As we honor victims and survivors of […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 19 | MAY 8 - MAY 14

COMMENTARY: An anthology for our times

April 15, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mike Dillon For Northwest Asian Weekly A few weeks after the Biden inauguration, a Japanese American friend was accosted in an Everett pharmacy by two fellows who told him to go back home. In his case, that would have meant the small town in eastern Washington where he grew up. These Covid-scapegoating days remind […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 16 | APRIL 17-APRIL 23

COMMENTARY: Your climate and air depend on clean fuels

April 8, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By State Sen. Rebecca Saldaña, Sam Cho, Port of Seattle Commissioner, and Rich Stolz, Executive Director of OneAmerica For Northwest Asian Weekly Our country is in the midst of a long overdue reckoning with racial injustices and systemic inequality. While those issues have finally moved to the front of our collective focus, environmental justice and […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 15 | APRIL 10 - APRIL 16

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