Hansi Lo Wang appears in the following:
Thursday, May 07, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
It's been more than a week since rioting over Freddie Gray's death closed many businesses. Several pharmacies are still not open — leaving the sick and elderly with chronic conditions vulnerable.
Tuesday, May 05, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
During an arrest in Baltimore on Monday, a suspect's gun accidentally discharged. No one was injured. Police quickly held a news conference to clear up the misinformation that someone had been shot.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
In New York City, award-winning poets are sitting in booths Thursday, ready to write poems on demand for passersby. Organizers of the event say they want to bring poetry to everyone in the city.
Saturday, April 18, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
Artworks by Japanese-Americans wrongfully imprisoned in World War II internment camps won't be sold to the highest bidder. The move came after protests from descendants of the internees.
Saturday, April 18, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
You can find food from just about any part of the world in New York City.
The Brooklyn Brewery is trying to push New Yorkers' palates even further by going back in time.
This week, it hosted a dinner party inspired by the local cuisine of Dutch settlers and Native ...
Friday, April 17, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
The recent killings of unarmed black men by police have inspired a Brooklyn theater company to stage new readings of dramas written in the early 1900s about the lynching of African-Americans.
Friday, April 10, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.
Friday, April 10, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
Cell phone video led to murder charges against a S.C. police officer for the shooting death of an unarmed man. Eyewitness videos can be helpful, but they don't always result in criminal charges.
Thursday, April 09, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
Courts have ruled that civilians have a constitutional right to videotape police encounters in public. But civilians are not allowed to interfere with police activity.
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
Sen. Menendez of New Jersey has been indicted on corruption charges. These are the first criminal charges brought against a sitting U.S. Senator in seven years.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
The animals were getting lost in the forest — so the story goes.
A year after Walt Disney made history with the release of his studio's first feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, his artists were struggling to find the right design for the woodland backgrounds of ...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
An LGBT group carried its own banner for the first time ever in New York City's St. Patrick's Day Parade Tuesday.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
Iconic architecture, long a subject for academics and designers, is being explored with sound in a new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York.
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
Some unauthorized immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens and green-card holders are worried they may be forced to leave the U.S. because a court ruling has put a hold on their deportation relief.
Monday, February 23, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
A federal jury has found the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization liable for attacks that occurred in Israel more than a decade ago.
Saturday, February 21, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
Getting ready for the Lunar New Year once meant buying a new set of clothes for many families of Korean ancestry.
For centuries, the costume known as hanbok – a two-piece outfit traditionally made of embroidered cotton or silk worn by men and women – has played a ...
Thursday, February 19, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
According to some East Asian zodiacs, 2015 is the year of the sheep. Or is it the goat? Different cultures will give you a different answer for which animal symbolizes this Lunar New Year.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
Unauthorized immigrants who entered the U.S. as children and have lived here since 2010 now wait to see what will happen to programs that were designed to temporarily protect them from deportation.
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
Four major retailers including Wal-Mart, Target, GNC and Walgreens are accused of selling mislabeled herbal supplements in New York. DNA tests by the state attorney general's office f...
Monday, February 02, 2015
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Hansi Lo Wang
New York City is home to more than 700 languages including distinct "New Yorker" accents. A new exhibit examines how changes in the city's population are contributing to their decline.