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Ava Chin uncovered a mysterious family history, taking in five generations of her own Chinese-American ancestors over the course of over 150 years as they tried to lay roots in the United States.
In 1955, Emma Thompson sold the Coronado home and the barn next door to the Dongs, who became the first Chinese American family to purchase real estate in Coronado, said Kevin Ashley, a Coronado ...
In 1939, the Dongs, a Chinese American family in Coronado, California, found themselves unable to rent a house amid racially restrictive housing laws that favored white buyers and renters.
A Chinese American family told NBC News that they will be donating $5 million to Black college students around the U.S., and it will be funded from the sale of their home in Coronado, Cali., which ...
A Chinese American investment manager raised in a working-class family says she'd give her parents 3 pieces of money advice. ... in a Chinese immigrant family who lived paycheck to paycheck.
A Black couple rented, then sold, their house to a Chinese-American family in Coronado when no one else would. Now, that family is donating $5 million to Black students.
Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has acquired domestic rights to the critically acclaimed Asian-American family drama “The ...
In 1939, Gus and Emma Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple, agreed to rent and eventually sell the house they owned to the Dongs, a Chinese American family. The Thompsons’ decision touched ...
The Thompsons, a Black couple, rented to the Dongs, a Chinese American family, 85 years ago when nobody else would. Now, the Dongs are donating $5 million to Black college students because they ...
It’s the American dream, said Lloyd Dong Jr., 82, Ron’s younger brother. “The Thompsons gave my parents a foundation to owning a house and sending their kids to college,” he said.