KNTV, the NBC O&O in San Francisco, is airing an hour-long special in primetime profiling the first Asian immigrants that arrived in the Bay Area before the Gold Rush and settled in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Asian American Pioneers, part of KNTV’s Emmy-Award winning series Bay Area Revelations, airs Sunday night at 7. Asian American Pioneers […]
KNTV, the NBC O&O in San Francisco, is airing an hour-long special in primetime profiling the first Asian immigrants that arrived in the Bay Area before the Gold Rush and settled in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Asian American Pioneers, part of KNTV’s Emmy-Award winning series Bay Area Revelations, airs Sunday night at 7.
Asian American Pioneers will show how the Bay Area’s Asian immigrant community fought against discrimination and imprisonment and for their right to stay and work in the Bay Area and highlight the important contributions that Asian Americans make to the Bay Area’s political, arts, philanthropic and culinary worlds.
Asian American Pioneers features interviews with some of those pioneers including former Congressman Mike Honda, a survivor of internment camps; Vivek Ranadivé, the first Indian-American to own an NBA team; Dado Banatao, the Filipino entrepreneur who made personal computers possible; and the An family who opened up the very first Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco.
“Our intention with this film is to tell the full spectrum of the Asian American story in the Bay Area and highlight some of the individuals who despite generations of oppression, have persevered and achieved greatness,” said Stacy Owen, KNTV’s general manager.
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