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EDITORIAL: Harriet Tubman on a twenty? — It should happen!

May 14, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Polling reveals that abolitionist Harriet Tubman would be a favorite if we had a woman on a 20-dollar bill.  The vote is unofficial, but an online campaign spearheaded by the group Women on 20s resulted in over 600,000 votes for possibilities if we did have a woman on currency. In the final round of voting, […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2015, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Native American, President Obama, Rosa Parks, Underground Railroad, Vol 34 No 21 | May 16 - May 22, Wilma Mankiller, social media

Speak out or clam up? — Part 1 of 2: Why Black and Asian women respond differently when faced with racism

May 17, 2012 By Stacy Nguyen

By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly “Recently, I was hanging out in the library. Somebody came up to be and randomly asked <!–more–>me if I was Korean or Japanese or something like that,” said Michelle Tran. “I said, ‘No, I am half-Chinese, half-Vietnamese.’ They were like, ‘Oh, where were you born?’ And I said, ‘I […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: 2012, Bitter Reproach, Dating Blacks Asians, David Matsumoto, Elizabeth Lee, Harriet Tubman, Janet Swim, Jose Soto, Korean American, Kwangsu Kim, Marquita Prinzing, Michael Bernstein, Michelle Tran, Sam Heyman, Shorewood High School, Tsukasa Nishida, Vol 31 No 21 | May 19 - May 25, West Seattle, William Gudykunst, Yuko Matsumoto

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