For over 30 years, AsianWeek proudly chronicled Asian Pacific American history. Today, the AsianWeek Database Project is bringing back three decades of news!
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From the Archives: July 4, 2002: "The Journey Here: Seven Stories of Coming to America"
These are the stories of seven immigrants from different, separate backgrounds and how the came to arrive in the “Land of the Free.”
Happy Pride Month!
As the month comes to a close, we take a flashback look at past AsianWeek covers and stories over the years.
Organized by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, 20,000 garment workers—almost entirely women—marched down the center of Chinatown with banners and picket signs to pressure for the renewal of their union contracts.
The 1998 animated film "Mulan" is based on the Chinese poem "The Ballad of Hua Mulan," making it the first Disney film to be based on a legend; the first Disney Princess film featuring a character of East Asian descent.
June 19, 1982, is a date that lives in infamy for the Asian American community. Chinese American Vincent Chin, 27, was brutally bludgeoned with a baseball bat by two white autoworkers in Detroit in a racially motivated attack.
Ken Tanabe is a second-generation American creative professional from New York. He is the founder and creator of the annual celebration Loving Day, recognized on June 12, the anniversary of the unanimous 1967 U.S.
On This Date in History
June 11, 1989: Michael Chang wins French Open title
At 17 years and 110 days old, Chinese American Michael Chang becomes the youngest male player ever to win a Grand Slam championship—a record that still stands today.
Jeanie Jew is a former Capitol Hill staffer and board member of the OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates. She is recognized for sparking the idea for a nationwide campaign to call for recognition of the contributions and work of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans.
