Fred Ho (1957-2014) was a radical activist, writer, and groundbreaking musician best known for his developments in the field of Afro-Asian American music. After a childhood spent trying to assimilate to the white culture of his Massachusetts College town, Ho read the ideas of Malcolm X for the first time in high school and began forging his political consciousness around dismantling capitalism, imperialism, and white supremacy. A self-taught saxophonist, Ho steadfastly sought to create an Asian American musical identity that was a true radical and multicultural synthesis, discrediting the label of “jazz” as a pejorative European label.
Ho’s music and lifestyle where intrinsically intertwined facets of his dedication to ecosocialism, matriarchy, indigeneity, and creativity. Over his short lifetime, Ho was a grassroots activist, community organizer, political theorist, and creator of several ground breaking Chinese American “jazz” operas and musical works. His projects were recognized and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Duke Ellington Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award, among others. Ho was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006 and spent his eight-year battle against the disease as a metaphoric lens to sharpen his political philosophies, discussed in his books Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior and Raw Extreme Manifesto.
侯维翰（1957-2014）是一位激进的活动家、作家和开创性的音乐家，他最著名的成就是他在亚非裔美国音乐领域的发展。童年时代，他曾努力融入马萨诸塞州大学城的白人文化。在他高中时期，他第一次读到了马尔科姆·艾克斯（Malcolm X）的思想，并开始围绕着瓦解资本主义、帝国主义和白人至上主义，来修炼自己的政治意识。作为一名自学成才的萨克斯管吹奏者，侯维翰坚持不懈地寻求创造一种亚裔美国音乐身份，这是一种真正的激进和多元文化的综合体，将“爵士乐”的标签视为一个贬义的欧洲品牌。
侯维翰的音乐和生活方式本质上是将他对生态社会主义、母权制、独立性和创造性的贡献交织在一起。在他短暂的一生中，他是一位草根活动家、社区组织者、政治理论家，及一些开创性的美国华人“爵士” 歌剧和音乐作品的创作者。他的项目得到了美国国家艺术基金会、洛克菲勒基金会、古根海姆基金会和艾灵顿公爵杰出艺术家终身成就奖等机构的认可和赞助。侯维翰于2006年被诊断出患有结肠癌，他用八年时间与结肠癌作斗争，就像一个隐喻的镜头，锐化了他的政治哲学，在他的著作《激进抗癌斗士日记》（Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior）和《生食极端主义宣言》（Raw Extreme Manifesto）中进行了讨论。
Countdown to the TCS NYC Marathon on November 3, 2019: 216 Days.
2019年是美国第一条横贯大陆铁路建成150周年，为了纪念第一批华人来美建设这条铁路所做出的巨大贡献， MOCA将其2019 TCS NYC Marathon的活动命名为 MOCA Spike 150 – Running Forward With Our Stories！ 鼓励大家通过马拉松公益跑，全国线上接力，以及一天一个故事的方式讲述150个华人的历史故事，敬请大家持续关注， 讲出华人自己的故事，回顾过去，立足现在，展望未来，共同书写美国历史，使之更加充实完整。