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	OCA Partners with ABC to Nurture New Talent Ming- Na in ER. By May Chow | AsianWeek Staff Writer Television’s four major networks — ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC — have come under attack from various minority communities for their failure to represent the diverse culture of America in their programming. The paucity of Asian Pacific Americans, blacks, Latinos and Native Americans in the entertainment industry has caused many organizations to speak out against the networks. COMPLETE STORY...		In Search of Symmetry (Feature) Thousands Across the Nation Protest INS Special Registration (in National News) First Annual Independent Press Convention To Be Held in San Francisco (in Bay Area News) The Art of Self-Recruiting (in Sports) History in the Making (in A&E) Emil Amok: Shaq's Taunt - Prelude to Hate Crimes? (in Opinion)

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History in the Making Dr. Franklin Odo’s Columbia Asian American History Reader By Terry Hong | Special to AsianWeek Franklin Odo is not one to rest on his laurels. As a man of many firsts — first from his Hawai‘i high school to get into Princeton, first Asian Pacific American to break into the most prestigious, lily-white, eating club there, co-author with Amy Tachiki and Eddie Wong of the first bona fide APA breakout text, Roots: An Asian American Reader, first director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Asian Pacific American Program, and, most recently, the first APA curator at the National Museum of American History — he’s gotten used to being a trailblazer. So it’s no surprise that he has just published the first book that brings together a canon of the documents that are of utmost importance to APA history, the just-released Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience (Columbia University Press). MORE

First APA Multimedia and Books Expo To Be Held in Oakland Hot ‘n Sour Dish: Dead On Arrival Reel Stories: ‘Charlotte Sometimes,’ Take 2 A&E Calendar Arts, entertainment, and community events around the country, listed alphabetically by region and category.

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