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Seattleites rallying for Liang clash with counter-protesters

February 26, 2016 By John Liu

By John Liu Northwest Asian Weekly On Feb. 20, a rally protesting the recent conviction of 28-year-old New York Police Department (NYPD) officer Peter Liang, who shot and killed an unarmed Black man, Akai Gurley, also 28, started peacefully at the Westlake Downtown Park. More than 500 people showed up to the rally at 1:00 […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2016, Akai Gurley, Asian Americans, Bellevue Councilmember Conrad Lee, Black Lives Matter, Hing Hay, John Liu, Komo Plaza, Local Chinese American, Martha Lee, NAACP, Palca Shibale, Peter Liang, Phillip Yin, Seattle, Vol 35 No 9 | February 27 - March 4, Westlake Downtown Park

AZ abortion law affects Asian Americans

December 17, 2015 By Jason Cruz

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied an effort to revive a lawsuit challenging an Arizona state law banning abortions based on the race or sex of the child. The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum and the NAACP’s Maricopa County branch sought to oppose the law which is […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, ACLU, API, AZ, African American, Asian Americans, China, Circuit Court, Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, India, Jason Cruz, Maricopa County, Miriam Yeung, NAACP, National Asian Pacific American Women, Representative Steve Montenegro, Vol 34 No 52 | December 19 - December 25

Editorial: False cries of racism will come back to bite

July 29, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By now, we have all heard at least some of what Shirley Sherrod has gone through. Not too long ago, she was leading a quiet life as a rural development director in Georgia

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2010, Andrew Breitbart, Editorial False, Eloise Spooner, Georgia, Marysville School Boardmember Michael Kundu, NAACP, President Obama, Roger Spooner, Seattle Police Department, Shirley Sherrod, USDA, Vol 29 No 31 | July 31 - August 6, White House

School board official under fire for writing racial e-mail

July 1, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Tiffany Ran Northwest Asian Weekly The Marysville School District is one of many districts in the nation tackling an issue that is considered to be among the most important and current civil rights issues. Academic achievement gaps and the disparities in academic performance between low-income and minority students and their white counterparts has been […]

Filed Under: Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2010, AGOAC, American Indian, Board Director Michael Kundu, Board President Sherri Crenshaw, Chris Gregoire, Chris Nation, Darci Becker, District Goals, Janice Greene, John Philippe Rushton, Kinuko Noborikawa, Kyle Kinoshita, Lillian Ortiz-Self, Michael Kundu, NAACP, Vol 29 No 27 | July 3 - July 9, poverty

Activists diversifying ranks in traditionally Latino-led movement: immigration reform

December 3, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

WASHINGTON (AP) — Beyond the noisy town hall meetings, Tea Party protests and sky-is-falling speeches characterizing much of the health care debate is a less visible, but an intense push to broaden the face of the immigration reform movement.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2009, Arturo Vargas, Asian American Pacific Islanders, Bishop Orlando Findlayter, Black Latino, California Democratic Rep, Caribbean Americans, Carribean American, Democrat Barack Obama, Hillary Shelton, Lennox Abrigo, Mike Honda, NAACP, Tea Party, Thomas Saenz, Vol 28 No 50 | December 5 - December 11, White House, Yvette Clarke

In response to Mark Lee’s “Hutchison” column …

June 4, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

To the Editor: Mr. Mark Lee seems to either forget or ignore the recent history and events preceding this lawsuit in making his assumption that race was not a factor in considering the choice of Kristy Lee to replace Susan Hutchison.

Filed Under: Opinion, Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Kristy Lee, Kweisi Mfume, Mark Lee, NAACP, Susan Hutchison, William Turnbull, vol 28 no 24 | June 6 - June 12

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