Quebec Artist Series | Arts Midwest

Finally found them! Check out these two feature articles I wrote for Arts Midwest about Quebec artists Annabel Soutar and Webster (click on the pink bars). these must have been published sometime in October 2021.

Quebec Artist Series | Arts Midwest

Aging Infrastructure Highlighted By Benton Harbor’s Continued Water Crisis | One Detroit

I'm talking w Bill Kubota on his story re Benton Harbor on One Detroit for Detroit Public Television 

Aging Infrastructure Highlighted By Benton Harbor’s Continued Water Crisis | One Detroit

Here's the whole program

11/11/21: Benton Harbor Crisis / Low Voter Turnout / Mariam Noland / Gabriel Duran Performance | One Detroit

Panel: ENGAGE: The Rise of Anti-Asian American Sentiment and Community Resiliency , 11/11/2021 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST | University of Michigan School of Social Work

I'll be a panelist for University of Michigan’s Social Work’s ENGAGE virtual discussion, "The Rise of Anti-Asian American Sentiment & Community Resilience," happening Thursday, November 11th, 2021, at 12-1 pm EST/ 9 am PST/ 7 am HST. Open to the public, come join us!

ENGAGE: The Rise of Anti-Asian American Sentiment and Community Resiliency , 11/11/2021 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM | University of Michigan School of Social Work

Reading: You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids at Detroit Writing Room

Excited to have just scheduled the first reading of my book tour, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids, at Detroit Writing Room book club virtual event and Asian Pacific American Heritage month on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 7-8 pm EDT

https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/you-cannot-resist-me-when-my-hair-braids

You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids | Wayne State University Press

Join the 2022 Book Club — The Detroit Writing Room

1990 Institute Newsletter: Vol 1 Issue 20

My essay and curated news for 1990 Institute newsletter, Vol 1 Issue 20: Want to write (or get your elders to write) the Great Asian American Memoir?

1990 Institute Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 20

Cancelled: Writing from the Heart & Telling the Stories of Your Life but 2 new classes in December

Sorry these two classes have been cancelled by WCC for low enrollment, but I have two new classes starting on Saturdays in December

Cancelled: Saturday 11/6/2021

Writing from the Heart - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & College Development

Cancelled: Monday 11/8/2021

Telling the Stories of Your Life - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & College Development

Coming 3 Saturdays December 4, 2021 at WCC

Ethical Wills: Writing a Love Letter to Your Family 10am-12pm

Writing to Change the World 1-3pm

Arab American and Muslim mayors sweep local elections in Detroit suburbs | PBS NewsHour

My article for the PBS NewsHour

“Because [of] the lack of Census data on the Arab American community, there are debates about its size, but after the election of three Arab American mayors in the region yesterday, there is no debate about its growth and impact.” Matthew Jaber Stiffler, a research and content manager at Dearborn’s Arab American National Museum, told the PBS NewsHour after the election.

Arab American and Muslim mayors sweep local elections in Detroit suburbs | PBS NewsHour

Rep. Hammoud mentioned on the Broadcast at 6:52 mark

November 3, 2021 – PBS NewsHour full episode | PBS NewsHour

And don't forget this older article from 9/20/2021

Decades after ‘the Arab problem,’ Muslim and Arab Americans are leading political change in Metro Detroit | PBS NewsHour

Detroit just decriminalized psychedelics and ‘magic mushrooms.’ Here’s what that means | PBS NewsHour

My article for the PBS NewsHour

“Detroiters voted in high numbers in support of further decriminalization,” Michigan State Sen. Adam Hollier of Detroit told the PBS NewsHour after the election. “The war on drugs was a war on Black and brown communities and it’s good to see Black communities pushing back.”

Detroit just decriminalized psychedelics and ‘magic mushrooms.’ Here’s what that means | PBS NewsHour

Here's much more background from before the election from 11/2/2021

Why the push to decriminalize psychedelics is growing in Michigan | PBS NewsHour

Why the push to decriminalize psychedelics is growing in Michigan | PBS NewsHour

My article on the PBS NewsHour

“It is important to recognize that, while we need to learn from the past, the current era of psychedelic research is well regulated and scientifically rigorous.”

“We should view this research in the same way that we do for other drug classes or disease states — we should neither stigmatize psychedelic research, nor should we romanticize it,” he said.

Why the push to decriminalize psychedelics is growing in Michigan | PBS NewsHour

Here's the follow up after election day 11/3/2021

Detroit just decriminalized psychedelics and ‘magic mushrooms.’ Here’s what that means | PBS NewsHour

Classes: Writing from the Heart and Telling the Stories of Your Life at WCC this Nov

Write with me this November at Washtenaw Community College! 3 Saturdays or 3 Mondays on Zoom.

Saturday 11/6/2021

Writing from the Heart - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & College Development

Monday 11/8/2021

Telling the Stories of Your Life - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & College Development

UPDATE 11/5/2021: Sorry these classes have been cancelled by WCC for low enrollment.

And coming up in December, 3 Saturdays December 4, 2021 at WCC

Ethical Wills: Writing a Love Letter to Your Family 10am-12pm

Writing to Change the World 1-3pm

Understanding media literacy and the role of local journalists - PBS NewsHour Classroom

VIDEO of Speaking at PBS NewsHour Classroom Extra on Wed: 10/27/2021

In celebration of Media Literacy Week, NewsHour Classroom hosted its Educator Voice Zoom series with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, one of the NewsHour’s newest community correspondents, and Liz Ramos, history teacher at Alta Loma High School in Rancho Cucomonga, Calif., and curriculum writer for Classroom’s Journalism in Action website.

The PBS conversation was hosted by Sari Beth Rosenberg, NYC public school history teacher, and was attended by dozens of educators across the country.

The conversation focused on the role of journalism in the past up to the present and Classroom’s Journalism in Action: Civic Engagement and Primary Sources Through Key Moments in History, a fun, interactive website based on resources from the Library of Congress. (We are looking for teacher testers for the site. Choose one of the activities, tell us how it went with your students, and we’ll send you a $50 VISA gift card. Email vpasquantonio@newshour.org for more information.)

You can watch the full discussion, or summary highlights below.

Understanding media literacy and the role of local journalists - PBS NewsHour Classroom

PBS NewsHour Classroom on Twitter: ""Detroit versus everybody"

Speaking to teachers on PBS NewsHour Classroom Extra this Wednesday

Short video clip:

PBS NewsHour Classroom on Twitter: ""Detroit versus everybody" @fkwang quotes Detroit teacher in @NewsHour Classroom chat on perils of journalists who parachute in, report only doom, and leave often missing the 'beauty and joy' of the city #medialiteracy #MediaLitWk https://t.co/Pe9I7Rp0Ty" / Twitter

Full video recording:

Understanding media literacy and the role of local journalists - PBS NewsHour Classroom

<3 Janet Cho

Janet Cho on Twitter: "“If the journalists only stay on the coasts, they don’t even know what’s happening in the rest of the country. Or they don’t have the ability to understand and interpret what’s happening… “ @fkwang 🙌🏼" / Twitter

PBS NewsHour Classroom on Twitter: "@fourgreenis @janetcho @fkwang Your tweet put our research skills to work, Barbara. You're definitely right about the 4 pylons! This @WVIZ story gives some great background that #arthistory teachers may want to share w/ their students. https://t.co/2g36XKq7oV @janetcho, we also love that quote by @fkwang" / Twitter

Speaking on PBS NewsHour Classroom for Media Literacy Week

Speaking with teachers on PBS NewsHour EXTRA Wednesday 10/27 7pm zoom on how I accidentally became a journalist and media literacy tips

1990 Institute Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 19 How will ethnic studies and Asian American studies affect my child?

1990 Institute Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 19 Oct 22, 2021 asks How will ethnic studies and Asian American studies affect my child?

When my son, who we all call Little Brother, was in fifth or sixth grade, he was having trouble getting his homework done. So in order to get him to sit at a desk where I could keep an eye on him, I started taking him with me to the evening class that I was team teaching at the University of Michigan. I thought that I could just park him at the back of the classroom with his math book and papers, and he could quietly work on his homework without disturbing anybody. It never occurred to me that he would find an upper division university course on Asian American and Pacific Islander civil rights interesting.

1990 Institute Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 19

How ‘segregation, disinvestment, and concentrated poverty’ preceded lead troubles in Benton Harbor | PBS NewsHour

My article for PBS NewsHour on Benton Harbor and lead in the drinking water

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — Two bridges stretch across the winding St. Joseph River to connect the Twin Cities, or the Little Twin Cities, of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph in southwestern Michigan.

From the Benton Harbor side, one bridge leads to the hospital that serves all the people in these two communities, where in the past, Black residents have complained of disparate treatment.

The other bridge leads to the jail. 

How ‘segregation, disinvestment, and concentrated poverty’ preceded lead troubles in Benton Harbor | PBS NewsHour

Sikh Americans push for greater visibility, awareness against years of hate crimes, misunderstanding | PBS NewsHour

My article for PBS NewsHour re the Sikh American community and history of activism

“When I went back to work, people in passing cars on highways rolled down their windows to yell at me and flip me off,” Singh said. “Out on the streets, people gave me angry and anxious looks. It was almost everyone. Women, men, white, black, young and old. It was one of the most unsettling times of my life.”

Sikh Americans push for greater visibility, awareness against years of hate crimes, misunderstanding | PBS NewsHour

1990 Institute Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 18 How can finding more cousins help us see ourselves more clearly?

My 1990 Institute Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 18 for October 8, 2021, which asks
How can finding more cousins help us see ourselves more clearly?

1990 Institute Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 18

October 6, 2021 – PBS NewsHour full episode | PBS NewsHour

They showed a picture of my article on the broadcast last night, it's only like 3 seconds at the 53:41 mark, but still fun to see...

October 6, 2021 – PBS NewsHour full episode | PBS NewsHour

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/october-6-2021-pbs-newshour-full-episode

Flipboard - Stories from 28,875 topics personalized for you

My article on the Arab American National Museum is featured in Flipboard's daily pick!

Flipboard - Stories from 28,875 topics personalized for you

The only Arab American museum in the nation is ‘much more than a building’ | PBS NewsHour

My article for PBS NewsHour about the Arab American National Museum 

“It’s vital that our young generation grow up with the knowledge that they are an integral part of this great American mosaic and be proud of the fact that their ancestors have contributed extensively to the formation of our modern-day society,”

The only Arab American museum in the nation is ‘much more than a building’ | PBS NewsHour

and on Canvas Arts too!

The only Arab American museum in the nation is 'much more than a building' | CANVAS Arts