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COMMENTARY: The First Chinese American hero

February 6, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Roger Dong For Northwest Asian Weekly For anyone not familiar with the non-profit organization Chinese American Heroes, Wong Chin Foo was our first Chinese American hero.  Right after Wong Chin Foo came, the 12,000 Chinese Railroad workers built the most difficult and dangerous part of the greatest infrastructure project of the 19th Century — […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2014, CEA, China, Chinese American Heroes, Chinese Americans, Coit Tower, Mr Dong, Roger Dong, SF, San Francisco, Transcontinental Railroad, US, Vol 34 No 7 | February 7 - February 13, Wong Chin Foo

The Lee Family in America

November 29, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By  Foster Stockwell The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), located in New York City’s Chinatown, is holding a unique exhibit of the distinguished Lee family, and chronicles the family’s experiences in America over a period from the late 1860s to the present.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, Bronze Star, Canada, Chin Shee, Chinatown, Chinese American Forum, Chinese Exclusion Act, Foster Stockwell, Guangdong Province, Lee Ling, New York City, Pell Street Photo, San Francisco, Soong Dynasty, Tai Lung Curio Shop, Transcontinental Railroad, United States, Vol 33 No 49 | November 29 - December 5

EDITORIAL: It’s been a long road for those who worked hard to help unite these states

May 15, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Chinese workers helped make the United States a lot more “united” by building the first

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2014, Asian American Studies, Asian Americans, Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act, Deputy Secretary, Magnuson Act, Transcontinental Railroad, United States, Vol 33 No 21 | May 17 - May 23, Washington State Rep

New flavor for remote Wyo.: Vietnamese coffee

September 14, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mead Gruver The Associated Press BUFORD PHINDELI TOWN, Wyo. (AP) — A Vietnamese businessman has raised a few eyebrows among Wyomingites by buying the remote outpost of Buford and tacking the name of a new coffee brand onto a place named 147 years ago for a civil war hero.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, Brazil, CEO, Ellie Prince, Fort Collins, Fred Patzer, Huntington Beach, John Buford, Pham Dinh Nguyen, Transcontinental Railroad, Vietnamese, Vol 32 No 38 | September 14 - September 20

A-POP: And the Asian F goes to …

October 14, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A monthly column about all things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Last month started off with a bang as the media shined a light on those who have wronged the Asian community.

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2011, AMC, Although Korean, Asian American, Aung San Suu Kyi, Central Pacific, Chef Tai, Chinese, Christian Dior, Crystal Renn, Favorite Food Truck, Harry Shum Jr., Joe Gayton, Michelle Yeoh, Mike Chang, Project Runway, Rain, Tai Lee, Transcontinental Railroad, Vol 30 No 42 | October 15 - October 21

Museum of Chinese in America gets a new home

September 10, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

NEW YORK (AP) — In cramped quarters in Chinatown, staff at the Museum of Chinese in America had to be careful not to step on any schoolchildren as they taught a class about the role Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2009, Alice Mong, Ang Lee, Angel Island, Brokeback Mountain, Centre Street, Chinatown, Chinese Americans, David Henry Hwang, Maya Lin, Mulberry St, San Francisco Bay, Taiwan, Transcontinental Railroad, United States, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Vol 28 No 38 | September 12 - September 18, Yo Yo Ma

Editorial: California says sorry to Chinese Americans, country to follow suit?

July 30, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On July 17, California formally apologized to Chinese Americans for racist laws that were enacted starting with the Gold Rush period in the mid-19th century. According to a recent TIME magazine story, the racist laws, some of which were not repealed until the 1940s, prevented Chinese Americans from owning property, marrying whites, working in the public sector, or testifying against whites in courts.

Filed Under: Opinion, Editorials Tagged With: Angel Island, Black Americans, Chinese Americans, Chinese Exclusion Act, Editorial California, Gold Rush, Jim Crow, Paul Fong, President Obama, San Francisco, TIME, Transcontinental Railroad, vol 28 no 32 | August 1 - August 7

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