By Wayne Chan NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Living in Seattle or near a major metropolitan area, you’ve no doubt seen it — brightly colored bicycles parked randomly on street corners, unchained […]
The Seattle Times has Large shoes to fill
By Nina Huang Northwest Asian Weekly After nearly 37 years working at The Seattle Times, the city’s “voice of reason,” Jerry Large, has retired. Friends and family celebrated his illustrious […]
Dismissing minority-led shows
By Ruth Bayang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Numerous viewers condemned the recently revived TV series Roseanne over a scene in an episode last week. John Goodman’s character, Dan Conner, tells Roseanne […]
Children of Korematsu, Hirabayashi, Yasui file Supreme Court brief challenging Trump travel ban
By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY SEATTLE — Seattle University School of Law’s Korematsu Center for Law and Equality joined an amicus curiae group in filing a U.S. Supreme Court brief […]
Daniel Akaka, first Native Hawaiian in Congress, dies at 93
By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Former Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian elected to Congress who served for more than three decades, died on April […]
43 Cambodians convicted of felonies deported
By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Forty-three Cambodians arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, on April 5, after being deported from the United States under a […]
BLOG: What Panama Canal says about America
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Some travel to escape, others to refresh themselves. Those are my goals, too. I am not hunting for inspiration. But my recent trip to […]