Teens Spray Anti-Asian Slurs in Vandalism Attack on NYC Cemetery
Three unidentified teenagers were caught on surveillance camera this past week vandalizing headstones in a predominantly Asian and Asian American…
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#NotYourWedge Twitter Townhall Features Asian American Panelists in Support of Affirmative Action
Earlier today, Asian American scholars and activists organized a Twitter townhall to discuss affirmative action on the hashtag #NotYourWedge. The…
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (#AAPI) Writing in Support of Affirmative Action | #NotYourWedge #AAPIforAffAction
This post was first published in November 2014. However, with resurgent interest in affirmative action and the Asian American &…
HBO’s APA Visionaries Short Film Contest is Currently Seeking Submissions!
After a successful inaugural year that saw winning short films screened at the 2017 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival,…
BREAKING: Viral Story About “Asian White Supremacist” May Be Fake
Editor’s Note: Minutes after this post was published, @hmasculazn deactivated his Twitter account. Shortly afterwards, the viral Medium essay was…
Dashcam Video Shows Brutal Police Assault of Laotian American Man
Shocking dashcam footage released today by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota shows a police officer brutally attacking a…
Slants Win Supreme Court Case Against US Patent and Trademark Office
In a ruling handed down this morning, the US Supreme Court unanimously sided with Asian American rock band “The Slants”…
Under Trump, Dreamers — But Not Parents — Will Be Allowed to Remain in U.S.
In a surprise announcement on the 5th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Trump administration announced…
Katy Perry (Sorta) Addresses Cultural Appropriation Critiques
In the latest episode of DeRay McKesson’s podcast, “Pod Save the People” (Episode 8: “When You Have to Face Yourself”),…
Trump Will Alienate the AAPI Community with his Anti-Environmentalism
While the week was dominated with giddy speculation over the true meaning of the word ‘covfefe’, a bigger story deserves…
Speaking Truth to Power is not Cyberbullying: On Tone Policing and Respectability Politics
Last week, Deadline broke the story that writer/director Gabriel Robertson (EastEnders, Bucket, The Gift) was attached to write and direct…
Tell the Government that We Need Disaggregated AAPI Data Today
The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community is not a monolith. Representing over 18 million people, AAPIs are a diverse,…