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May 6, 2024
Book takes off at launch events coast to coast
UPDATED MAY 10 Kicked off the National book tour with capacity crowds in DC, New York, LA, and Seattle! See photos below. More events...
Apr 10, 2024
PBS will show two films about Corky in May
Curtis Chin's DEAR CORKY will start streaming in May on PBS American Masters new short documentary series. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/ameri...
Apr 10, 2024
Book reviews and interviews
Gil Asakawa reviews the book for Center for Asian American Media https://caamedia.org/blog/2024/04/03/vision-of-photographer-corky-lee-th...
Mar 17, 2024
NATIONAL BOOK TOUR
UPDATED APRIL 9 See below for book launch events April - June. Sponsored by Corky Lee Estate and friends. Programs will feature...
Mar 17, 2024
Curtis Chin's DEAR CORKY will air on PBS in May
Curtis's brilliant doc on Corky--shot entirely with Corky's own voice--will be one of PBS's new American Master's short film series. All...
Mar 17, 2024
AsAm News previews Corky's book
AsAm News reviews Corky's amazing career and talks with book co-editor Mae Ngai https://asamnews.com/2024/03/09/aapi-photographer-book-pu...
Feb 11, 2024
National Book Tour
UPDATED MARCH 15 The Corky Lee Estate and Friends are organizing a national tour to launch the publication of CORKY LEE'S ASIAN AMERICA...
Feb 2, 2024
DocumentedNY honors Corky
Published on Jan. 26, for the third anniversary of Corky's passing, a tribute and an early review of CORKY LEE'S ASIAN AMERICA...
Jan 26, 2024
Where's Corky? Thoughts on the third anniversary of his passing
By John Lee, Corky's brother and estate executor for the late Corky Lee Last year, concurrent with the premiere of a long-awaited...
Jan 17, 2024
Corky Lee profiled in NYS MLK program
Governor Kathy Hochul's Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute featured CORKY LEE as an emblem of RESILIENCE. Virgo Lee narrates in the video...
Dec 26, 2023
NATIONAL BOOK TOUR
Updated Feb. 7, 2024 The Corky Lee Estate and Friends are organizing a national tour to launch the publication of CORKY LEE'S ASIAN...
Dec 26, 2023
Kinding Sindaw exhibit to feature Corky's photos
Corky was a longtime friend and photographer of Kinding Sindaw, the dance performance group dedicated to the indigenous cultures of the...
Dec 26, 2023
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul will honor Corky on King Day
New York's annual Martin Luther King, Jr. program will feature a special tribute to Corky Lee. January 8, 2024, at 6 pm, in Albany at the...
Nov 14, 2023
Corky Lee Way unveiled in NYC Chinatown
Thank you to Think!Chinatown, OCA, and others who led the campaign to get Mosco Street in Chinatown co-named Corky Lee Way. A large...
Oct 8, 2023
Curtis's book launch!
Curtis Chin, director of award winning documentary, Dear Corky, will be at the Strand bookstore on October 17 to launch is new book,...
Oct 8, 2023
"Corky Lee Way"
...will be officially unveiled on Sunday October 22, 2023, at the corner of Mott and Mosco in NYC Chinatown. Come down for the sign...
Jun 30, 2023
Corky's photo of anti-police brutality march to be on permanent display at Obama Center
The Obama Center, the official museum of President Barack Obama in Chicago, will feature Corky's iconic photo of the 1975 march in New...
Jun 30, 2023
Corky's Railroad photo to be on permanent display at Promontory Point
Corky's iconic re-enactment (2014) of the "golden spike" photo at Promontory Point, Utah, will be on permanent display at the National...
Jun 30, 2023
"Corky Lee Way" coming in NYC Chinatown
The New York City Council passed an omnibus co-street naming bill on June 22, 2023, which includes co-naming Mosco Street in Chinatown...
May 31, 2023
WEST: poetry inspired by the transcontinental railroad
In 2018, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental...
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