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Doris Koo Appointed to AARP Board of Directors

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Koo recently retired from a 13-year career with Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit specializing in affordable housing advocacy and development, having served in a variety of roles, including that […]

COMMENTARY: What I have learned from Mary Yu

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By Jamie Sun Northwest Asian Weekly Mary Yu is an inspiring role model. On June 13, I was one of the guests at a conversation with the newly appointed Washington […]

COMMENTARY: Hire local workers on City of Seattle public works projects now

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By Michael Woo, Got Green Jobs that should be given to Seattle residents are being given to others. The City of Seattle spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually on […]

The Asian Hall of Fame

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The Asian Hall of Fame honored four Asian Americans at its annual event at the Fairmont Olympic in Seattle on May 31. Since its founding in 2004, the mission of […]

New report on language diversity and English proficiency among AAPIs

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The Center for American Progress, in conjunction with AAPI Data, released a report in May on language diversity and English proficiency among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. This release is […]

Asian American poetry keeps evolving

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By Irfan Shariff Northwest Asian Weekly By the late 1890s, Asian Americans were already leaving their mark on the American literary canon. The writer Sadakichi Hartmann, a Japanese-born American of […]

A-pop! April’s pop notes — Prom, TV, and the passing of a musical legend

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By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Can you believe that it’s May already? April zipped by so quickly, and with it, a few notable stories that include prom and a […]

Past, present Asian activists connect and share insights

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By James Tabafunda Northwest Asian Weekly Speed dating brings total strangers together to meet each other and talk about themselves, all within one five-minute round after another with new partners. […]

EDITORIAL: It’s been a long road for those who worked hard to help unite these states

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Chinese workers helped make the United States a lot more “united” by building the first transcontinental railroad, linking the east and west coasts and bringing people and prosperity across the […]