A rise in anti-Asian violence “hits close to home” for Hogan’s Korean-American family.
The three-day program features over 70 Asian-American writers and includes interactive events like literary karaoke and writer-scholar speed-dating.:
After apologizing yesterday to Asian Americans for offending them, Marion Barry went ahead and offended Polish Americans. Today, he apologized to them.
Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) is set to join a coalition of Asian American groups for a press conference tomorrow at a church in Anacostia, where the mayor-for-life is expected to address derogatory comments about Asian American businesses and Filipino nurses he made in April.
Kennedy, the one-time MTV host who now works for Reason, grilled Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) on his comments earlier this month about Asian-owned businesses he called “dirty shops.”
After last week’s controversial comments about Asian business owners in his ward, Marion Barry found himself a “good Asian” and claimed that he was simply doing “God’s work.”
Hours of public condemnation appear to have convinced Marion Barry to finally walk back his comments Tuesday night that Asian-owned businesses in his part of the District are “dirty shops” that “ought to go.”
Not surprisingly, Marion Barry is catching a lot of flak for his comments Tuesday night that Asian-owned businesses in Ward 8 were “dirty shops” that “ought to go.” But he’s standing by what he said.
Marion Barry got a little carried away Tuesday night celebrating his win in the Democratic primary for his Ward 8 seat. In addressing supporters, he said Asian-owned businesses were “dirty shops” and “ought to go.”
DC’s 2004 Asian Pacific American Film Festival is well under way. The festival features screenings of a wide variety of films at venues across the District – from the Smithsonian Castle to the Goethe-Institut. The festival runs through the 16th, when it closes with a blowout party at Panache off Connecticut. (See a Washingtonian review.) Bex Blog is attending the screening tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Goethe-Institut of a series of women’s short films…
