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In 2016, Chin launched the YouTube channel “Asia Minute with Curtis S. Chin” to help bring his message about the importance of the Asia-Pacific region and its development issues to a younger, global audience. Chin is the author of the Japanese bestseller, “Writing your way into business and law school,” published by ALC Press.
A 2022 documentary, Dear Corky, about Lee's life and community activism was made by director Curtis Chin. [25] On May 5, 2023, Lee was honored with a Google Doodle. [26] On October 22, 2023, a street sign for Corky Lee Way was unveiled in New York's Chinatown, at the corner of Mott Street and Mosco Street. [27]
From co-founding the Asian American Writers’ Workshop to producing documentaries like “Vincent Who?” about the 1982 killing of Vincent Chin, Curtis Chin has been championing other Asian ...
Vincent Who? is a documentary film that was released in 2009. It details the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin that occurred in Detroit, Michigan.. Chin was a 27-year-old Chinese-American who was beaten to death with a baseball bat by two Detroit autoworkers, who had mistakenly thought that he was Japanese and, in their minds, was responsible for the loss of jobs in the U.S. auto industry.
Curtis Chin grew up in 1980s Detroit around his family's Chinese restaurant, Chung's. In a new memoir, he explains how it taught him everything he knows.
The landmark documentary explores the fight for justice for Vincent Chin, who went into a coma and died in 1982 after being beaten by two white autoworkers.
Vincent Chin was a victim of brutal, racial violence, but from that tragedy emerged “a chorus of Asian American voices,” Curtis Chin says. Considerable work ahead. The autoworkers who attacked Chin blamed foreign vehicle manufacturers for hardships in the U.S. auto industry.
Cofounders Curtis Chin, Christina Chiu, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and Bino A. Realuyo created AAWW because they were searching for New York City community of writers of color who could provide support for new writers. [2] The Asian American Writers Workshop runs two fellowship programs for emerging Asian American writers. [3]