This is Week 25 of AsianWeek’s salute to Chinese American heroes, in strategic partnership with Chinese American Heroes , a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to documenting the contributions of Chinese Americans to America and the world. September 11, 2001 was a national day of infamy. America was brutally attacked with the wrenching blows striking deep into the heart of our Nation. All of us watched repeatedly as four of commercial aircraft were hijacked, and smashed in
This is Week 24 of AsianWeek’s salute to Chinese American heroes, in strategic partnership with Chinese American Heroes , a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to documenting the contributions of Chinese Americans to America and the world. We are all familiar with Chinese Americans as lawyers, doctors, newscasters, and scientists. In fact, especially in the case of female newscasters, they have become so expected that they have become Hollywood clichés. This week we’re looking at Chines
It’s been awhile since I’ve interviewed one of our American Heroes, but I think our readers will be pleased with the Hero that I recently interviewed. J.R. as many of our readers know is a retired Soldier, who was severely injured in Iraq in April 2003, with severe burns over more than 40 percent of his body. J.R. now is acting in the daytime soap opera All My Children, I the role of Brot Monroe. His character served in the Army in Iraq and was injured in combat. He had fell in love with a fe
AsianWeek continues our Salute to Chinese American Heroes The heroic and notable contributions of many Chinese Americans to the United States and the world remain unrecognized and as Helen Zia says, “are missing in history.” Chinese American Heroes (CAH) hopes to change that by documenting the positive impact Chinese Americans have made, beginning with the railroad workers in the 1860s to contemporary icons like historian and journalist Iris Chang, architect I.M. Pei, and to lesser known heroe
