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HORSE’S MOUTH: Different Views for Different Folks

HORSE’S MOUTH: Different Views for Different Folks

By GEORGE YOSHINAGA So I’m sitting at my computer, chewing on my cigar and wondering, “What can I write about today?” The phone rings. It’s friend calling to see how I’m doing. “See you’re... 

JANM to Host Film, Discussion on Santa Anita Assembly Center

JANM to Host Film, Discussion on Santa Anita Assembly Center

Not a lot of people know that during World War II, Santa Anita Park housed approximately 20,000 Japanese Americans. Find out more about it from a short video produced by ESPN and some Japanese Americans... 

DJs Solicit Racist Jokes; MANAA Praises DirecTV for Response

DJs Solicit Racist Jokes; MANAA Praises DirecTV for Response

Los Angeles-based Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) is praising DirecTV for disciplining two on-air staffers who, after discussing New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin, asked their listeners... 

INTO THE NEXT STAGE: 20 Years On; Then and Now

INTO THE NEXT STAGE: 20 Years On; Then and Now

By GUY AOKI (First published in The Rafu Shimpo on Feb. 23, 2012.) === Hard to believe, but it was on Feb. 26, 1992 that “Into the Next Stage” first appeared in the pages of the Rafu Shimpo.  Back... 

JACL Urges Sports Media to Be Proactive

JACL Urges Sports Media to Be Proactive

WASHINGTON — The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) has expressed grave concern that elements within the sports media continue to use subtle and blatant forms of negative racial slurs and insensitivity... 

MANAA Praises ESPN for Firing Over Headline, Pushes for Better Oversight

MANAA Praises ESPN for Firing Over Headline, Pushes for Better Oversight

Ted Chen of NBC4 interviews Guy Aoki of MANAA about the Jeremy Lin controversy. To see the video, click link at the end of this article. Los Angeles-based Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA)... 

ESPN Apologizes, Dismisses Headline Writer

ESPN Apologizes, Dismisses Headline Writer

ESPN posted the following apology on its website Feb. 19 following complaints about a headline regarding Jeremy Lin, “A Chink in the Armor,” that followed the New York Knicks’ loss to the New Orleans... 

AAJA to ESPN: Headline About Lin Inexcusable

AAJA to ESPN: Headline About Lin Inexcusable

The Asian American Journalists Association sent the following letter to ESPN on Feb. 18. — New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin had a bad night Friday. Regrettably, so did ESPN. Using “a chink in the... 

Revival of the Fittest

Revival of the Fittest

Kristan Clever completes a squat snatch in the first women’s singles event of the 2010 CrossFit Games at the Home Depot Center in Carson on July 16. (JORDAN IKEDA/Rafu Shimpo) By JORDAN IKEDA Rafu Sports... 

The Art of Not Gambling

The Art of Not Gambling

Derek, center, plays every friday night with a group of friends, a few of which are sponsoring him in this year’s World Series of Poker $10,000 Omaha high/low tournament set for June 12. (Photos by... 

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