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Deadline Detroit | Detroit Book Excerpt: 'From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin'


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April 20, 2021, 11:13 PM
This is an excerpt from the just-released book From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement. Chin s fatal 1982 beating and the cries of injustice that followed still resonate
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Paula Yoo is a former Detroit News reporter, who moved to Los Angeles to author books and write for TV shows.  
By Paula Yoo
When Ronald Ebens swung the Jackie Robinson Louisville Slugger baseball bat one last time at Vincent Chin, it was as if he were going for a home run.
Vincent wasn t supposed to be here. Not Lying in a pool of his own blood in the middle of Woodward Avenue across from a McDonald s in Detroit on a warm June night. He was supposed to be out celebrating his bachelor party with his best friends Jimmy Choi, Gary Koivu, and Bob Siroskey. ....

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Vincent Chin slaying will be topic of virtual event Wednesday


Hate crimes against Asian Americans have soared during the COVID-19 pandemic. Such attacks have a long, tragic history in America, with one of the most infamous incidents happening in Detroit nearly 40 years ago.
The 1982 killing of Vincent Chin will be the subject of a virtual event on Wednesday presented by Cinema Detroit, Over the Moon Detroit and the Freep Film Festival.
The evening will begin with an online screening of “Who Killed Vincent Chin?,” the 1989 Oscar-nominated documentary directed by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Pean.
Chin, 27, a Chinese-American automotive engineer, was out celebrating at his bachelor party when he was assaulted by two white autoworkers. He went into a coma and died four days later. ....

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