It started with chatter on Chinatown street corners, and soon, the conversations moved into neighborhood community centers.
Hold the terror trials here? In my neighborhood?
Apparently so.
Federal officials had announced in November plans to hold the trials of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other self-professed 9/11 terrorists in a federal courthouse – right in the middle of [...]
by SUZANNE MA (Associated Press Writer)
NEW YORK (AP) — In cramped tenementlike quarters in Chinatown, staff at the Museum of Chinese in America had to be careful not to step on any schoolchildren as they taught a class about the role Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad.
For years, they dreamed of a bigger [...]
Is “sorry” better late than never?
Last week, the California legislature apologized to the state’s Chinese-American community for racist laws barring Chinese from owning land or property, marrying whites, working in the public sector and testifying against whites in court. That was back in the mid-19th century during California’s Gold Rush. About 25,000 Chinese crossed the Pacific [...]
Earlier this month, when sister-brother team Tammy and Victor Jih won The Amazing Race, I was cheerleading for them, dancing in my room, in my pajamas, in my small NYC apartment.
In the 14th season of the show, in which 11 teams compete in a race around the world, the Jihs – Chinese born Americans and [...]
I’m going home this weekend to visit my parents.
The International Herald Tribune published this op-ed today. I often think about how hard my parents worked so my brother and I could have a good life.
Chinatown – 唐人街
By PETER ENG
HONG KONG — She’s an immigrant of the most traditional, stubborn sort, my mother, who [...]
Hello, world. I’m finally starting up a new blog. It’s been awhile. I was an avid blogger years ago during my first year of university. I wrote about some news but blogged mostly about my personal comings and goings. This time around, I’m going to be blogging about two of my interests that have developed [...]
Suzanne Ma is a journalist in New York City. She is a multimedia reporter and producer for DNAinfo.
She is the recipient of a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for 2009-2011.
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