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EDITORIAL: Let’s retire “Chinaman”

April 14, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Yao Ming was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on April 6. The headline in the Washington Post now reads, “How Yao Ming subverted stereotypes and brought basketball to millions.”  But only because the original headline, “Hall of Famer Yao Ming redefined ‘Chinaman’…” generated a huge backlash on social media. In an attempt to […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2016, Asian Americans, China, Chinese Americans, NBA, Ni Hao, Perhaps Yao, Steve Kerr, TNT, TV, Tell Yao Ming, United States, VOL 35 NO 16 APRIL 16 – APRIL 22, Washington Post, social media

Connecticut groups say they’re ready for more refugees

January 9, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Alaine Griffin Hartford Courant HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Amid growing debate over the country’s immigration policies in the aftermath of recent terrorist attacks, Connecticut is preparing for a new wave of refugees who will arrive here in 2016. “There’s been overwhelming support recently from churches, mosques, individuals, people calling saying, ‘We want to help […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, 2016, Bloomberg Politics, Catholic Charities, Chris George, Congo, David Dearborn, Erika Mendelsohn, Eritrea, Hartford Courant, Homeland Security, IRIS, Integrated Refugee Immigrant Services, Jama Ahmed, Jenny Velecela, South Sudan, Syria, United States, Vol 35 No 2 | January 9 - January 15, Washington Post

EDITORIAL: Not fair — More concerns about standardized testing

April 9, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The statistics are staggering. At Stuyvesant High School in New York City, a public school, in a body of 3,000 students there are seven (yes, believe it or not—SEVEN out of 3,000) African American students. Admittedly, there is a high population of Asian Americans at Stuyvesant, but certainly the number of African Americans is clearly […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2015, African Americans, Andy Russell, Asian Americans, College Board, Common Core State Standards, New York City, PSAT, SEVEN, Seattle Public School, Vol 34 No 16 | April 11 - April 17, Washington Post

Understanding immigration reform and its local impact

January 16, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Minal Singh Northwest Asian Weekly Since this is the time of the New Year, people may want to set their affairs in order.

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2010, 2014, 2015, AILA, Chinese, Homeland Security, Korean, New Year, Northwest Asian Weekly, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, President Obama, Seattle, Vietnamese, Vol 34 No 4 | January 17 - January 23, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Washington Post, Washington State

Cyrus Habib appointed to Whip by Democrats

December 29, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Senator-elect Cyrus Habib was named to the key leadership position of Whip by his fellow Senate Democrats this December. The position, which is responsible for party discipline and strategy, is considered one of the top leadership positions in the Senate. Habib was recently elected to the State Senate to replace Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom, […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: Cyrus Habib, Governing Magazine, Rising Stars, Senate Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom, State Legislators, State Senate, Washington Post

COMMENTARY: The siren song of “Hello Kitty is not a cat”

September 5, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Tiffany Ran For Northwest Asian Weekly “Ceci n’est pas une pipe (This is not a pipe),” a cheeky statement made famous by Rene Magritte’s painting The Treachery of Images came to mind recently. But Magritte’s painting is of a pipe. It is very clearly a pipe, despite it saying otherwise. Mais non, argued Magritte, […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2014, Badtz Maru, Hello Kitty, Hello Kitty-gate, Japanese American National Museum, Kitty White, Los Angeles, Princess Jasmine, Rene Magritte, Vol 33 No 37 | September 6 - September 12, Washington Post, attention

Dealing with death—and harassment: Zelda Williams suffers from the loss of her father and internet abuse

August 23, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Zachariah Bryan Northwest Asian Weekly When renowned comedian and actor Robin Williams committed suicide from asphyxiation, daughter and half Filipina Zelda Williams discovered a hard truth about social media. It has two sides. There’s a nice, caring side and a downright ugly side. Zelda is the daughter from Williams’ second marriage to Filipino American […]

Filed Under: News, Features Tagged With: 2010, 2012, 2013, Amanda Todd, British Columbia, Del Harvey, Disease Control, Filipina Zelda Williams, Filipino American Marsha Garces, George Washington Bridge, Hudson River, Northwest Asian Weekly, Peter Pan, Robin Williams, Rutgers University, VP, Washington Post, social media

“Documented” by Vargas gets to heart of immigration debate

April 18, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Evangeline Cafe Northwest Asian Weekly Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas spurred conversations about what it means to be American when he outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in an essay published in the New York Times Magazine in June 2011. Vargas is now shedding more light on his story of heartbreak and […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features Tagged With: 2011, 2014, Eric Liu, Evangeline Cafe, Jose Antonio Vargas, Mitt Romney, New York Times Magazine, Northwest Asian Weekly, Philippines, President Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize, Seattle, Senate Judiciary Committee, Social Security, United States, Vol 33 No 17 | April 19 - April 25, Washington Post

BLOG: The Washington Post, my muse

August 8, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng The news of Amazon’s founder buying The Washington Post made me realize how much I owe its late publisher Katherine Graham and her paper.

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2013, Assunta Ng, Bill Gates, Georgia, Jeff Bezos, Katherine Graham, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle Chinese Post, Unity Convention, Vol 32 No 33 | August 10 - August 16, Washington Post, Wedgwood Public Library

Ex-DC journalist admits to being an illegal immigrant

June 30, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Brett Zongker The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the past eight years, journalist Jose Antonio Vargas worried about a looming deadline: the expiration of an illegally obtained Oregon driver’s license that had allowed him to get his first full-time job at a top U.S. newspaper. The 30-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winner who covered the Virginia […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2011, ABC, Claremont Graduate University, Define American, Huffington Post, Jose Antonio Vargas, Kris Coratti, Mountain View High School Principal Pat Hyland, New York Times Magazine, Peter Perl, Post Chairman Don Graham, Superintendent Rich Fisher, United States, Virginia Tech, Vol 30 No 27 | July 2 - July 8, Washington Post, White House, William Perez

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