Reprinted in full is an essay published March 27 on the New America Media website. A Shared History And Vision By Stewart Kwoh & Julie A. Su, APA Legal Center Editor’s Note: A column published in Asian Week entitled “Why I Hate Blacks” promoted dismay across the ethnic media and prompted NAM to host aContinueContinue reading “Essay on Asians and Blacks Sharing a Civil Rights History and Vision”
Author Archives: Keith Kamisugi
Chronicle Brief on Editor Changes
Excerpt from Chronicle brief in today’s paper: AsianWeek Editor Samson Wong has been removed as editor in chief of the publication and reassigned as a result of the furor that followed publication in late February of a column titled “Why I Hate Blacks.” Wong has been reassigned to a job of “senior editorial consultant,” AsianWeekContinueContinue reading “Chronicle Brief on Editor Changes”
AsianWeek Removes Editor-in-Chief
Leaders of the civil rights organizations that initiated the protest against AsianWeek’s publication of a hate speech column against African Americans today noted the newspaper’s decision to remove Samson Wong as editor-in-chief. The masthead of the newspaper’s March 30 issue shows that former editor-in-chief Samson Wong’s title is now “Senior Editorial Consultant.” “We asked AsianWeekContinueContinue reading “AsianWeek Removes Editor-in-Chief”