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By Devika Koppikar As a young man, Bill Imada didn’t want to identify as a Japanese American. “I wanted to be white,” said Imada. But on October 9, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)  recognized him for not only his leadership in the Asian American community, but also for promoting diversity in the media field.  Imada was one of four …

Association of Chinese American Physicians (ACAP) celebrates service, friendship and year of the horse     On 15 February 2014, approximately 60 ACAP members, family and friends rung in the year of the horse by highlighting past and future ACAP activities.  Outgoing president Jay He reported on community engagement activities from 2013.  These included two health fairs in collaboration with Chinese …

Washington, D.C. – On Saturday, May 18th, 2013, KOWIN DC hosted a benefit concert at the Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center of Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Campus. The evening’s program, Opera Gala: Aria and Love Duet, directed by Sung Hee Rhee, included emblematic pieces from Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Puccini’s Tosca, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, …

After finishing up a regular Chinese language class on Sunday, February 10, Hope Chinese School College Park staged its annual Spring Festival Gala in a multi-level, tiered classroom at the University of Maryland in College Park. Principal Qun Gao gathered all the kids into the room, transformed from a lecture hall to a lantern-filled, Chinese-themed theatre. Several hundred people, including …

300 party-goers attended the Hawaii Presidential Center Inaugural Gala at the top of the Hay Adams Hotel, overlooking the White House, during Inauguration Weekend. The five-star affair raised money for the Hawaii Presidential Center Initiative, a community-wide project led by the University of Hawaii to compete for the location of Barack Obama’s Presidential Library against Chicago. Dignitaries from Obama’s birth …