The 2015 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction for young people went to Dash, by Kirby Larson, published by Scholastic Press. In the book it’s January, 1942, and school scapegoating […]
“The Five Essentials: Arts and the movement for social justice” — Keynote Speech by Ron Chew at National Guild for Community Arts Education Conference
By Ron Chew For Northwest Asian Weekly The arts can be an instrument for transforming individual lives, restoring communities, and remaking our society into a more tolerant and inclusive place […]
COMMENTARY: Asian American civil rights group calls on retailers to pull ads targeting Alibaba
The Alliance for Main Street Fairness, which includes retailers such as Target, J.C. Penney, Walmart and Best
Diversity at the top — Brad Miyake steers City of Bellevue
By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly “Organized chaos.”
COMMENTARY: Yellowface in 2014? Is it 2014 or 1914?
By The Chinese American Citizens Alliance For Northwest Asian Weekly The Chinese American Citizens Alliance sees the current production of The Mikado in Seattle as continuing the
Sakata’s play about Gordon Hirabayashi, ‘Hold These Truths’
By Laura Ohata Northwest Asian Weekly Homecoming for a Civil Rights icon Gordon Hirabayashi Imagine that it is April in 1942, and the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor only four […]
Graduation heals Calif. man’s World War II internment wounds
By Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, California (AP) – A California man who missed his 1942 high school graduation because he was locked in an internment camp for Japanese Americans finally […]
$2.9 million will go to Japanese American confinement sites
Last week, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced 21 grants totaling more than $2.9 million to help preserve and interpret the World War II confinement sites of Japanese […]
New bill would ‘properly recognize’ Bainbridge memorial
On May 28, Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA-06) introduced a bill to officially recognize a new name for the Bainbridge Island memorial to Japanese Americans forced from their homes during World […]
Asian American poetry keeps evolving
By Irfan Shariff Northwest Asian Weekly By the late 1890s, Asian Americans were already leaving their mark on the American literary
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