California Turns Down Opportunity to Receive Federal Money to Disaggregate AAPI Data
Southeast Asian American and Pacific Islander advocates have said that data disaggregation is one of the core civil rights issues…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
Supreme Court Votes to Protect Abortion Access: Why It Matters for AAPI Women
Today, the Supreme Court handed down another major decision. After they voted last week to protect affirmative action (yay!), but then…
‘Doesn’t Mean We Bang’: Reckless Criminalization and Monstrous Peril in the Case of Dylan Yang
By Guest Contributors: Pao Lee Vue, Bee Vang, and Louisa Schein Last March, Wausau resident Dylan Yang, 16 – who…
Supreme Court Reaffirms Race-Conscious Affirmative Action in College Admissions
The Supreme Court handed down their long-anticipated decision on Fisher v University of Texas II yesterday, eight years after Abigail Fisher (who…
Misguided Protesters Target NYC’s Chinatown Over Dog Meat Festival in China
Since 2009, one festival in China has caused a stir in the animal rights community. The festival — the Yulin…
We Need Comprehensive Gun Control, Not More Racial Profiling
Last week, freshman Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) ended a marathon fifteen hour filibuster demanding that Congress finally do something — anything…
AAPI Civic and Civil Rights Groups Urge Cable News Networks to Improve On-Air Diversity
Mere weeks after Ann Coulter called Asian Americans the racially charged slur “Mandarins” on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, twenty-three of the nation’s…
Zayn Malik opened up about his anxiety. Here’s why that matters.
By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) It’s been a whirlwind fifteen months for Zayn Malik, the suave tenor who first…
#StarringAffirmativeAction: How #StarringJohnCho Debunks Recent Asian American Complaints Against Ivy League Universities
By Guest Contributor: Christopher M. Lapinig Are you all about the #StarringJohnCho posters, the Photoshop phenomenon that reimagines posters for recent…
Forget Leo — One of these actors should play Rumi!
By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) I was slightly jet lagged on my commute home Monday night. So, at first,…
Why We Must Demand that the State #FreeJasmine
If ever you needed more proof that the state will do just about anything to uphold white supremacy, this story…
UCLA Shooting Suspect Identified: Thoughts On Race, Violence, and Graduate Studies
Like many, when I heard that the UCLA campus was on lock-down yesterday due to an on-campus shooting, I braced…