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‘Why is the story still unknown?’: ‘Free Chol Soo Lee’ co-directors refuse to let America forget Korean American wrongfully convicted of murder in 1973
Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s six-year journey to illuminate the life and legacy of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean American man falsely convicted of murder, began at the end of his story.
While Ha first learned of him through her mentor K.W. Lee, a journalist who played an instrumental role in raising awareness of the injustices that plagued the wrongly convicted man, she truly came to grips with the gravity of Chol Soo Lee’s situation at his funeral.
Cleveland Chinese Americans to make a documentary about the 150-year history of AsiaTown
The Organization of Chinese Americans of Greater Cleveland (OCAGC) is making a documentary to educate the local community about the history of Cleveland’s AsiaTown.
The project will document how Asian Americans settled and established themselves within Cleveland’s community over the last 150 years.
