Mayor Marty Walsh took photos Feb. 24 with Chinatown residents at an open house at the Josiah Quincy Elementary School.(Image courtesy of Yiming Zhao.)
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh held his first 2020 open house Feb. 24 at the Boston Centers for Youth and Family Quincy Community Center.
City departments set up booths and handed out flyers, with staffers answering questions from residents. Walsh made the rounds, speaking to and taking photos with residents at the event.
“I’m always thinking about, ‘why are we doing this play now?’,” actor Michael Hisamoto told the Sampan of the Lyric Stage production of “Yellow Face.” Hisamoto has a key role in the play, written by David Henry Hwang. The semi-autobiographical show is about the playwright, who appears in the play and is the narrator. It’s about Hwang’s life, his father, and the period of the 1990s and the 2000s. It covers big themes like the “yellow peril” and the Asian […]
A recent Supreme Court ruling that could influence the lives of thousands of people seeking immigration to the U.S. via consular offices gives renewed life to legal precedents built on anti-Asian discrimination of the 1800s, say advocates and legal experts. The case, decided late last month, was “Department of State v. Muñoz.” It centers on a U.S. citizen’s years’ long attempts to sponsor her husband from El Salvador to live with her and their child. A consular official denied their […]
