Collin Tong
Racist Place Names are Beyond Rick Perry’s Recent Spat
The late journalist, Robert C. Maynard once wrote that as a nation we are divided along the fault lines of race, class, gender, geography and generation. To provide a more nuanced understanding of the...
Discrimination Shapes the Asian American Historic Make-Up of the Central District, Part 1
SEATTLE – The forging of Seattle’s Asian community, particularly its growth in the city’s Central District, was inseparable from the history of racial discrimination and immigration in the Northwest. Indeed for that community, the...
A Childhood Spent Toiling on Washington Farms
SEATTLE – They are as upstanding a group of civic leaders as one might find anywhere. Dr. Lawrence Matsuda, 66, a former educator, was once an assistant superintendent for Seattle Public Schools and visiting...
What’s Happening to our Community Colleges?
SEATTLE – In her ten years of teaching students in Seattle Central Community College’s award-winning film and video communications program, Sandra Cioffi has reason to be proud of her protégés.
Graduates of her two-year associate...
A Threat to Democracy: Journalists of Color Fading from Our Nation’s Newsrooms
SEATTLE – Diversity in the nation’s newsrooms is becoming the latest casualty of the economic woes facing the American newspaper industry. For the third consecutive year, the number of minority journalists continues to decline,...
Minorities Not Utilizing “Death with Dignity” Law
In the two years since Washington’s “Death with Dignity” law was enacted, Asian Pacific Islander use of physician-assisted dying continues to be negligible according to a new report by the state Department of Health.
Only...
Take an Asian American Literary Tour of Seattle’s Chinatown/ID
SEATTLE – A time traveler seeking a glimpse of the International District’s past would do no better than to take its measure through the eyes of its Asian-Pacific Islander American storytellers.
A good place...
Lisa See Spellbinds Audiences Again in “Dreams of Joy”
In her bestselling novel, “Shanghai Girls,” published two years ago to wide acclaim, Lisa See chronicled the lives of two sisters, Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, and their privileged life in pre-World...
Goodwill Building Demolition and Parking Project Underway
SEATTLE – After 12 years of unsuccessful efforts to redevelop its Dearborn campus, Seattle Goodwill Industries has unveiled plans to build a new job training center.
Demolition of its vacant buildings along Dearborn Street has...
Education Leaders Reexamine Strategies To Improve Seattle Schools
With Seattle School Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson’s ouster over a financial scandal last February, community leaders are taking a second look at the structural challenges facing a beleaguered school district.
As Seattle School Board...
