3 videos for Remembering Vincent Chin

Thanks to Ankur Dholakia, then at Detroit News, for this clip of the Vincent Chin memorial plaque installation in Ferndale, Michigan, in 2010, which includes a short summary of the case and its significance at the beginning by former American Citizens for Justice Executive Director Frances Kai-Hwa Wang (me).

Here's another video clip of the installation ceremony from WXYZ News:
Video: Dec 2010 WXYZ News: Plaque honoring murdered Asian man, Vincent Chin, unveiled in Ferndale  wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/oakland_county/plaque-honoring-murdered-man-unveiled-in-ferndale

And wow, look what I found!  Charlie Chin - "Ballad of Vincent Chin" - live NYC, 2009

We Are Vincent Chin #IAmVincentChin

Check out the new site iamvincentchin.tumblr.com and see what folks are saying this weekend on the 32nd anniversary of the baseball bat beating death of Vincent Chin, #IAmVincentChin on Twitter and Tumblr, curated by

Jenn Fang Reappropriate Remember 32 years of Vincent Chin with #IAmVincentChin! Help trend it! | Reappropriate,

Vanessa Teck Project Ava #IAmVincentChin: Never Forget - Project Ava,

Juliet Shen Fascinasians

on Twitter #IAmVincentChin

and at Tumblr IAmVincentChin.tumblr.com or We Are Vincent Chin.

Updated: with more names and links.

Remember 32 years of Vincent Chin with #IAmVincentChin! Help trend it! | Reappropriate

From Jenn Fang at Reappropriate:

Yet, there are still those who have forgotten about Vincent Chin.Earlier this year, a columnist for the Detroit News published an op-ed that defended Nitz and Ebens, and blamed Chin for his own death by racial hate crime. Although the Asian American community generated a powerful series of writing refuting the Detroit writer’s revisionist history of the Chin case (including this piece by Frank Wu), the fact that a writer would write such a fallacious article thinking it would not impact an entire community of Asian Americans is proof that we cannot let Vincent Chin’s death be forgotten.

We must remind the world that Vincent Chin was us, and we are him.

Check out Jenn's call to action at: Remember 32 years of Vincent Chin with #IAmVincentChin! Help trend it! | Reappropriate

Twitter / reappropriate: Want more resources on the ...

Thanks for the tweet, Jenn Fang at Reappropriate, "Want more resources on the Vincent Chin tragedy? @fkwang curates the definitive blog. http://www.rememberingvincentchin.com/  #IAMVincentChin"

Twitter / reappropriate: Want more resources on the ...

Vincent Chin’s hate crime attack was 27 years ago today | NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog - GIL ASAKAWA'S JAPANESE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE ON POP CULTURE, MEDIA & POLITICS

from Gil Asakawa 2009 Vincent Chin’s hate crime attack was 27 years ago today | NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog - GIL ASAKAWA'S JAPANESE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE ON POP CULTURE, MEDIA & POLITICS

Why Vincent Chin Matters - NYTimes.com

from Frank Wu 2012 Why Vincent Chin Matters - NYTimes.com

Creative Nonfiction Math

Calculating the mathematical possibilities and functions in my Creative Nonfiction class at WCC last night. (Math Asian. Ha!)

Teaching Creative Nonfiction

Teaching Creative Nonfiction tonight at WCC, 6-8:30 pm, LA138. Hope you can join us! (Also, I did not write that course description)

https://washtenaw.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&int_class_id=4607&int_category_id=3&int_sub_category_id=49&int_catalog_id=1

Thoughts from Lee Gutkind: What is Creative Nonfiction? | Creative Nonfiction

Dominic Pangborn Retrospective

Just received an invitation to Dominic Pangborn's retrospective show, "Evolution of Art & Design Through Revolution," at the Ella Sharp Museum. Wow! Congratulations Dominic!

Sewing Dreams of the Diaspora

Sewing book bindings until midnight...



PS if you have one of these chapbooks from the January binding, um, the last line of the book is missing. Pls pencil in "I like who I am when you are in my heart." at the bottom of page 37 and it will make a lot more sense. #Soembarrassing #howdidinotcatchthisearlier #whyweneedcopyeditors These have been corrected.

Folding Dreams of the Diaspora

Folding books today. Second half of the Dreams of Diaspora first printing, with one correction.

PS if you have one of these chapbooks from the January binding, um, the last line of the book is missing. Pls pencil in "I like who I am when you are in my heart." at the bottom of page 37 and it will make a lot more sense. #Soembarrassing #howdidinotcatchthisearlier #whyweneedcopyeditors These new chapbooks have been fixed.

Remembering Yuri Kochiyama

Remembering Yuri Kochiyama. 

From the University of Michigan Yuri Kochiyama Leadership Program - YK Leaders, an A/PIA high school student mentorship program.

Check out http://smithsonianapa.org/yuri and email your #yurikochiyama artwork to curator Adriel Luis.

Also check out the because of yuri tumblr put together by the great folks at 18 Million Rising.

Remembering Yuri Kochiyama. Rest in Power.

Remembering Yuri Kochiyama (May 19, 1921-June 1, 2014). Rest in Power.

from the great folks at 18 Million Rising.  (Update: Also check out 18MR's because of yuri tumblr)

Cool Cover of Kimchi for Life

The cover! So excited to finally see "Kimchi for life," the latest from A Melting Pot of Thoughts 13 Minutes Books - "Pho for Life: A Melting Pot of Thoughts." and so glad to be a part! by Access Group Media and Ahn Mai Xuan Bui. Book release today in OC!

Purchase book at Kimchi for Life Launch with Special Tribute to Kim Pham - ameltingpotofthoughts | Buy Tickets, and attend the book release party at Red Carpet Celebration of the Release of "Kimchi for Life."

Kimchi for Life Launch with Special Tribute to Kim Pham - ameltingpotofthoughts | Buy Tickets

Tomorrow night in OC: Special Tribute to Kim Pham at book launch of "Kimchi for Life," third in the A Melting Pot of Thoughts 13 Minutes Books - "Pho for Life: A Melting Pot of Thoughts." series (in which I have a short short love story of sorts, "Where the Lava Meets the Sea") Thanks Ahn Mai Xuan Bui

Kimchi for Life Launch with Special Tribute to Kim Pham - ameltingpotofthoughts | Buy Tickets

more at fb event page: Red Carpet Celebration of the Release of "Kimchi for Life."

Southern California City Drops Lawsuit Against Sriracha Sauce Maker | NBC Southern California

Breaking News: The great #Srirachapocalypse comes to an end.

Southern California City Drops Lawsuit Against Sriracha Sauce Maker | NBC Southern California

Remembering Maya Angelou

so sad to hear the news about Maya Angelou today. i learned so much from reading her entire collection of (7? 8?) memoirs one autumn, about alternate perspectives and the value of all our stories. i was so proud to learn that an article i wrote that casually mentioned her work in passing that was hit by trolls inspired a lively two-day class discussion about her work and mine in which high schoolers who usually never speak spoke up. a lot. from 2010. #weneeddiversebooks 

Only in the Midwest: Trying to line up stereotypes, cultural background, intuition and reality

http://www.annarbor.com/passions-pursuits/only-in-the-midwesttrying-to-line-up-stereotypes-cultural-background-intuition-and-reality/

"Where the Lava Meets the Sea" in "Kimchi for Life."

Wow, looks great! So pleased to be a part of the A Melting Pot of Thoughts series once again, with "Where the Lava Meets the Sea" in the new book, "Kimchi for Life." Check out this sweet love letter from the editor, Ahn Mai Xuan Bui:

Dear Frances, I'd like to thank you for being a great friend of A Melting Pot of Thoughts. Your leadership in the field of Asian literature is well recognized and appreciated.

the intersections of family stories and history on Memorial Day

Remembering my maternal grandfather this Memorial Day, who was a fighter pilot with Chennault’s Flying Tigers during WW2, who took a train across the American South in 1945 to train in Texas for a year (with Connie Chung's dad!), who flew the last plane out of China in 1949... Thanks to all our vets as we think about the intersections of family stories and history in "Grandfather Walking" on page 109 of Kartika Review http://issuu.com/kartikareview/docs/kartika_issue16

UCSB

My heart is heavy and my thoughts are with all the families in Santa Barbara.