Many homes have brick exteriors and feature backyard spaces for homeowners to lounge in after a day of work. Bordered by South Broad Street to the west, Washington Avenue to the north, 6th street to the east, and Tasker Street to the south, buyers love this neighborhood because it provides an easy commute to West Philadelphia and Center City. Passyunk holds a place in the hearts of many local residents and tourists because it is the birthplace of the famed Philly Cheesesteak. Introduced in the 1930s by Pat’s King of Steaks, the restaurateur reigned supreme until Geno s Steaks opened up shop just across East Passyunk Avenue.
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May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage month. It’s a time to honor and celebrate the contributions of AAPI people to our world.
San Diegans’ collective culture and economy owe a great deal to our AAPI community, from the Convoy District to Little Saigon and the Japanese Friendship Garden, the Lunar New Year celebrations to Diwali, and from the smell of lumpia wafting through Southeast San Diego to the Asian grocery stores that supplied our families during early COVID-19 quarantine when other shops ran out of supplies.
But the AAPI community is more than just good food, art and celebrations. Asian American and Pacific Islanders make up about 13 percent of our county’s population and own nearly 30,000 businesses. They are members of the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the United States, and play an important role in every sector of our society. And they are, much like Black Americans, brutalized by the structures that uphold White supremacy.
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One by one, the Buddhist priests, nuns and teachers silently entered the Los Angeles temple in similar robes of black and saffron hues, with identical gestures of hands clasped in prayer.
But they represented the dazzling diversity of Buddhist traditions and Asian cultures and languages in a healing ceremony against racial hate a cause so urgent that it recently drew together followers of every major school of Buddhism for what is believed to be the first time since the tradition was founded 2,500 years ago.
There were Japanese Americans from Little Tokyo. Chinese and Taiwanese from the San Gabriel Valley. Vietnamese from Westminster. Koreans from Los Angeles and Garden Grove; Tibetans from Long Beach; Thais from Hollywood and Yucca Valley. Cambodians came in from Santa Ana and Sri Lankans, from Mid-City. Black, Latino and white Buddhists also attended the ceremony Tuesday at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo.
Updated: 5:04 PM PDT May 5, 2021
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, and we are raising a glass to local leaders in our region.
KING 5’s Chris Daniels is back with another round of Drinks with Daniels. He sat down with people who have made an impact in our region.
Watch the segments May 5-28 on KING 5.
Gary Locke
Gary Locke really needs very little introduction as Washington state s former governor, and the first Chinese-American governor in U.S. history.
He later went on to become secretary of commerce and the U.S. Ambassador to China.
We talk about his history making a political run, attacks on the Asian community, and his role now as the interim president at Bellevue College, while drinking a freshly brewed pot of coffee in his backyard on the Eastside.
Westminster teen accepted to 16 universities, including Ivy League schools
High school senior accepted to 16 colleges
This is that time of year when high school seniors are waiting to hear from colleges they ve applied to. So, imagine what it was like for one teenager who was accepted to all the colleges she applied to. All 16 of them!
WESTMINSTER, Calif. - For 18-year-old Julia Do, of Westminster, the good news kept coming.
One prestigious university after another sent her letters of acceptance. Names like Princeton, Stanford and Brown were among the academic institutions sending her the good news.
How many in total? A sweet 16! And with good reason.