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Census seeks changes in how it measures race

August 18, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys that would treat “Hispanic” as a distinct category regardless of race, end use of the term “Negro,” and offer new ways to identify Middle Easterners …

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, African Americans, American Indian Alaska Native, Angelo Falcon, Arab American Institute, Arab Americans, Asian American Justice Center, Asian Americans, Asian Indian, Census, Census Bureau, Census Director Robert Groves, Middle Easterners, Nicholas Jones, Terry Minnis, Vietnamese

APA civil rights groups file a federal lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration law

June 10, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) and Asian American Justice Center (AAJC) in May jointly filed a federal lawsuit with other civil rights groups

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2010, AAJC, APALC, Arab Americans, Asian Americans, Chinese, Julie Su, Ronald Lee, SB, South Asian, Ted Namba, Vol 29 No 24 | June 12 - June 18, Wen Ho Lee

Editorial: Why is it important to learn history?

May 7, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Many will say that we learn history so that we won’t repeat our missteps. It’s an easy statement to make but is hard to back up with action …

Filed Under: Opinion, Editorials Tagged With: Arab Americans, Asian Americans, Executive Order, Fred Korematsu, Iraq, Japanese Americans, Justice Hugo Black, Manifest Destiny, President Roosevelt, Seattle University, Supreme Court, United States, WWII

SU law center named for civil rights leader

April 4, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

When Fred Korematsu, a Japanese American welder, dared to challenge the constitutionality of his internment in 1942, his objections

Filed Under: Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2009, Arab Americans, Executive Order, Japanese American, Kellye Testy, Korematsu Center, Korematsu Discovery Academy, Korematsu Elementary School, Looking Back, Mace Ranch, President Franklin Roosevelt, Professor Lorraine Bannai, Professor Robert Chang, Public Law, Reaching Forward, Seattle University, Sullivan Hall, Vol 28 No 15 | April 4 - April 10

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