How SF woman is working to revitalize Chinatown while providing services to businesses, immigrants
Lily Lo, Founder of BeChinatown and CEO of Northeast Federal Credit Union in Chinatown, provides essential services to small businesses and immigrants while working to beautify and revitalize ...
Prominent architect's rare San Francisco Victorian listed at $4.5 million
A decade after a face-lift that took two years to complete, 956 South Van Ness Ave. is ready for her close-up. The Italianate Victorian was designed by a prominent California architect in 1872, and ...
Philly’s Chinatown has a rich tradition of activism – the Sixers arena fight was just one of many to preserve the neighborhood
Like other American Chinatowns, Philadelphia’s formed during an era of virulent anti-Chinese racism. The neighborhood was established in the 1870s as a refuge for immigrants fleeing the American West, ...
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Chinese New Year parade showcases San Francisco’s ‘new leaf’
The raucous annual event broadcast a message of optimism for the Year of the Snake throughout a city that claims to be turning things around.
This man won birthright citizenship for all
In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the SS Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him reentry.