By Jane McKinley-Chinn Special to the Northwest Asian Weekly Ken Fugami, 73, is an Army Vietnam veteran who was exposed to Agent Orange, a toxic chemical used to defoliate forest […]
EDITORIAL: Beyond black and white
I’m not a police officer or policy maker; I am not a mental health expert and I don’t have the silver bullet to eliminate gun violence. I am a woman, […]
Dear Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie: Black Lives Matter to us, too
Editor’s note: This letter was drafted by hundreds of Asian Americans to their own elders addressing the recent police shootings and the Black Lives Matter movement. Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie, […]
EDITORIAL: A glimmer of hope
In a letter to the editor last week, a member of the Chinatown-International District Public Safety Task Force, Karen Yoshitomi, wrote, “What is it going to take, if not the […]
COMMENTARY: Jenny Chen’s disappearance and the media’s hierarchy of empathy
By Jeff Dunsavage Director, The Missing Americans Project In the early 2000s, amid several highly publicized disappearances of women in the United States (including Laci Peterson, whose husband eventually was […]
LETTER: Re: Donnie Chin’s Legacy
Dear editor, I attended a ceremony [on June 16] for the renaming of a park in the Seattle Chinatown International District (CID) to the Donnie Chin International Children’s Park. I […]
EDITORIAL: Setback for immigrant families
In a 4-4 decision on June 23 by the U.S. Supreme Court, President Obama’s executive actions for immigration relief remain blocked. “The Supreme Court … failed to act on the […]
EDITORIAL: Embodying the Olympic spirit — New team to shine a spotlight on worldwide refugee crisis
Wikipedia states that the mission of the Olympic Spirit is “to build a peaceful and better world … which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity, and fair […]
EDITORIAL: A milestone and an uphill battle
Whether you hate her or love her, Hillary Clinton made history last week by becoming the first woman to lead the presidential ticket of a major political party in the […]
EDITORIAL: Beyond fighting fists
Muhammad Ali, one of the world’s greatest boxers and one of the 20th century’s biggest personalities, died on June 3 in Phoenix, after being hospitalized for respiratory problems. He was […]
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