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COMMENTARY: Suicide: Let’s talk

June 28, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Randon Aea The deaths of American designer Kate Spade and celebrity gourmand Anthony Bourdain draw attention to suicide as a growing U.S. health issue. At the same time, they open uncomfortable and hard-to-answer questions. Not least is reconciling the dissonance of such finality from two people who appeared to “have it all.” Bourdain and […]

Filed Under: Commentaries, Feature stories Tagged With: 2018, Randon Aea, VOL 37 NO 27 | JUNE 30 - JULY 6

COMMENTARY: Roseanne reboot gets the boot!

May 31, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ruth Bayang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Ding dong, the witch is dead! OK, not really. But the ‘Roseanne’ show has been cancelled. And kudos to ABC for having the cojones to do what’s right. In case you haven’t heard, Roseanne Barr went on a racist Twitter rant on Tuesday morning. In it, she referred to […]

Filed Under: Commentaries, Feature stories Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 23 | JUNE 2 - JUNE 8

COMMENTARY: AAPI health disparity intersects disability and civil rights

May 18, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nadine Shiroma HBV civil rights advocate & Hepatitis B Foundation policy adviser Between 1991 and 2012, many medical and dental schools in the United States accepted students with chronic hepatitis B (CHBV) — most of them Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) — only to prohibit their enrollment due to the disability. Over the […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 21 | MAY 19 - MAY 25

COMMENTARY: Implicit bias

May 11, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Akemi Matsumoto APACEvotes and APACE Board Member Faculty Emeritus, Bellevue College There has been a lot of talk about implicit bias because of the recent incident at Starbucks in Philadelphia, when Dante Robinson and Rashon Nelson were arrested for merely sitting at a table waiting for a business meeting without purchasing anything. So what […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 20 | MAY 12 - MAY 18

COMMENTARY: Automatic Voter Registration

April 13, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Derek Lum APACEvotes Community Organizer It has been a historic session in the Washington state legislature. Four laws passed this year that will make Washington one of states with the strongest access for voters. APACEvotes worked to pass one of these laws, Automatic Voter Registration (AVR). Through this new law, the voter registration process […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 16 | APRIL 14 - APRIL 20

Dismissing minority-led shows

April 12, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

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 they “missed all the shows about Black and Asian families” because they fell asleep in between Wheel of Fortune and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, referencing ABC’s […]

Filed Under: Commentaries, Feature stories Tagged With: 2017, ROSEANNE, VOL 37 NO 16 | APRIL 14 - APRIL 20

Don’t whitesplain food to Southeast Asians

April 6, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ruth Bayang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY This outrageous story came into my radar because I am from Malaysia. Two white judges on the cooking show, BBC’s MasterChef UK, insisted a Malaysian contestant’s chicken rendang curry should have been crispy. The contestant, Zaleha Kadir Olpin, was eliminated from the competition. Her offending rendang was presented as […]

Filed Under: Commentaries, Feature stories Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 15 | APRIL 7 - APRIL 13

COMMENTARY: Breaking the cycle of opioid addiction requires federal partnership

March 30, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Troy Christensen Executive Director of the Korean Women’s Association Innovation around opioid abuse prevention is happening in Washington state, and the Korean Women’s Association (KWA) is collaborating with partners in the regional “Accountable Community of Health” to find solutions to one of the most pressing healthcare equity issues of our time. There isn’t a […]

Filed Under: Commentaries, Feature stories Tagged With: 2018, TROY CHRISTENSEN, VOL 37 NO 14 | MARCH 31 - APRIL 6

COMMENTARY: Reader commentary on the bill to reinstate affirmative action

March 30, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Linda Yang WA Asians For Equality Proponents of the repeal of I-200 tried to use a 2006 study, entitled “Affirmative Action in Washington State,” to justify their cause. We’d like to add data that were left out in the original article in the Northwest Asian Weekly (Bring back affirmative action? March 17, 2018) to […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 14 | MARCH 31 - APRIL 6

COMMENTARY: Earth to Bruno Mars — Cultural appropriation or appreciation?

March 23, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Peggy Chapman Bruno Mars (Peter Gene Hernandez) won six Grammy awards this January, including Best Album for 24K Magic and Best Song of the year. His background is eclectic — his mother was Filipina, and his father is from Puerto Rico and also part Jewish. He was raised in Hawaii. His father nicknamed him […]

Filed Under: Commentaries, Feature stories Tagged With: 2018, Bruno Mars, VOL 37 NO 13 | MARCH 24 - MARCH 30

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