UC Davis students push to license Chinese American attorney 124y after denial due to racism
Hong Yeng Chang’s case is obscure to laypeople, but well-known to students of the law. Chang was among the many…
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The Underappreciated Advocates of Asian Americans with Disabilities | #APAHM2014
The U.S. Census estimated in 2000 that as many as 20% — or 1 in 5 — of Asian American…
132 years ago today, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed | #APAHM2014
The first Asians to arrive in the Americas are believed to be Filipino sailors who landed in North America as…
We Are All Cyborgs: Being Asian American and Doing Organizing Online | #APAHM2014
Guest-post by Cayden Mak (@Cayden), 18MillionRising. I recently remarked to a longtime Twitter friend that I feel we live in…
Faces of Asian America: Being Bald and Bold | #APAHM2014
Traci Lee is a producer at MSNBC, and was diagnosed with alopecia — a condition that results in hair loss…
Judge Mary Yu becomes 1st #AAPI, 1st openly gay judge on WA Supreme Court
Hon. Mary I. Yu has been appointed by Governor Jay Inslee to the Washington Supreme Court, making her the state’s first…
#AAPI: A Community Strengthened by Difference | #APAHM2014
For this year’s Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (#APAHM2014), I will be celebrating by writing multiple pieces throughout May…
Your List of Cool #AAPIHeritageMonth Events Around the Web | #APAHM2014
Today marks the first day of Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. In addition to my month-long blogging…
The Mythical “Maybe-No”: Our Twisted Definitions of Rape | #SAAM #DavidChoe #GameofThrones
It’s poignant that on the start of this year’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), I wrote a post about the…
Reporter blames Vincent Chin for his own murder? | @nealrubin_dn
Published days before 2014’s Asian American Heritage Month opens, Neal Rubin (@nealrubin_dn) of the The Detroit News (one of the…
Review: “9-Man” documentary is a complex, thought-provoking challenge to Asian American stereotypes
Opening to a Boston theatre crammed to capacity with an audience that included current and former players of 9-Man and…
Oh Avril, why’d you have to go and make things so complicated? | #AvrilLavigneHelloKitty
So, this happened. Earlier this week, Avril Lavigne — a self-professed “tomboy” who at one time encouraged young girls to…