Chetanya Robinson

Today the King County Council released a proclamation recognizing Filipino World War II veterans who will receive the Congressional Gold Medal. Congress will hold a ceremony recognizing these veterans on October 25. A single gold medal will be minted, and bronze replicas distributed to surviving veterans or their next of kin

Ji Soo Kim came to the United States from South Korea with her parents when she was two years old. Now 21, she recently graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in...

Since 2004, a historical marker recognizing the Chinese community of Olympia has stood in the city’s Heritage Park. In the past few years the marker has been vandalized, including by a rock and. Most recently, someone used a Sharpie marker to scribble fake “Chinese” characters over a Chinese poem written in calligraphy on the marker.

Marcus Choi was walking his dogs in the Bitter Lake neighborhood in North Seattle when he heard a man shouting behind him. “I turn around and he’s right up in my space with his forehead on mine,” Choi said, recalling the incident. “And then he’s yelling at me, he’s like, ‘You’re going to prison just like all the rest of you and your passports are gonna be taken away.’”

For more than 20 minutes, there was silence as City officials explained that zoning in parts of the Chinatown International District (CID) needed to change, to allow developers to build higher. “We are asking...

Community organizations and businesses in the Chinatown International District (CID) are hosting a town-hall style forum to communicate their fears of displacement and gentrification. All nine City Council members have been invited

The City Council unanimously approved an income tax for high-earners in Seattle. The tax is expected to raise $140 million per year by imposing a tax of 2.25% on those earning over $250,000 per year, or $500,000 for married couples who file a joint income.

How easy should it be for the city to forcibly move homeless people from the encampments where they live? This question lay at the heart of a City Council hearing in September 2016.  Council...

At the end of May, long time activist and CID community leader Frank Irigon was presented the Martin Luther King, Jr. Medal of Distinguished Service by the King County Council, which honors people have improved the lives of communities in King County

Community organizations must apply for this grant in a competitive process; if approved, the fund will allow them to hire immigration attorneys and legal staff for immigration cases in the Seattle or Tacoma immigration courts