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 a … Continue reading Essay on Asians and Blacks Sharing a Civil Rights History and Vision

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 a … Continue reading Essay on Asians and Blacks Sharing a Civil Rights History and Vision

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," AsianWeek … Continue reading Chronicle Brief on Editor Changes

In the most articulate summary to date of the issues related to the AsianWeek publication of hate speech, Erin Aubry Kaplan writes in today's LA Times: The column, published in the San Francisco-based AsianWeek newspaper in the waning days of African American History Month, was so astonishingly hateful that activists of all stripes immediately rushed … Continue reading Excellent opinion piece by Erin Aubry Kaplan of the LA Times

Ellis Cose writes in a web commentary that the hateful column in AsianWeek should never have been printed. But  it touched on a subject—tensions between blacks and Asians—that could benefit from some clear, constructive thought.

UPDATE 3/15: Neela rescinds her comments about David Lee here. Neela Bannerjee, a former editor-in-chief of AsianWeek, writes about the Friday forum: This forum was organized by New America Media (where I work) and also with help from David Lee of the Chinese American Voters Education Committee, who is one of the people who stood … Continue reading Former AW editor on the NAM forum

"For AsianWeek newspaper for publishing a column titled 'Why I Hate Blacks.' The column's author, New Yorker Kenneth Eng, wrote 'a list of reasons why we should discriminate against blacks.' The newspaper's editors have said they made a lapse in judgment by publishing the piece," wrote the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.

In her column today, Mercury News columnist Lisa Chung shares her thoughts on the hate speech printed by AsianWeek: Even if you think newspapers are dead, this is what happens when an editor falls down on the job. And this is what happens when a callow young writer -- or the Net-loving public at large … Continue reading Mercury News’ Lisa Chung: ‘Blog-style column falls way short’