Disrespecting Diwali: A Look at Our Cultural Hypocrisy
By Guest Contributor: Sridhar Karra When I was a college student, I attended my university’s annual Diwali program, organized by…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
Arsonist Burns Nearly 40 Hindu Flags in Queens
New York Police Department officers are searching for a suspected arsonist in a Thanksgiving day attack on a local Queens-area…
Reappropriate’s Top 5 for #GivingTuesday 2015 (and This Year’s Master-List of AANHPI Non-Profits)
This year marks the fourth annual Giving Tuesday, a national day to reject the crass consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. #NotOneDime,…
‘Quantico’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 9, “Guilty”
By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) Lakshmi’s recaps for “Quantico” episodes 1-7 can be found here and for episode 8 onward…
Why It Matters That Both Civilian Victims of the Planned Parenthood Shooting were People of Colour
On Friday, 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear entered a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood and opened fire with a long gun. For…
LifeHack.org Publishes Racist and Sexist Article About Dating Chinese Women
LifeHack.org is one of the web’s largest, and one of its more shameless, generator of those shitty clickbait listicles that periodically pollute your…
Roanoke Mayor Apologizes for Comments Justifying Japanese American Incarceration
Just two days after his absurd statement — wherein he justified turning away of Syrian refugees with the reasoning that…
Shame on Reps. Tulsi Gabbard and Ami Bera for Voting to Block Syrian Refugees
The headline says it all: shame on Asian American House Representatives Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Ami Bera (D-CA) for casting…
6 Questions for “April’s Way”, A New Short Film on Korean American Shopkeepers During The LA Riots
In 1992, the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers who savagely beat motorist Rodney King sparked one of the…
Mayor Justifies Turning Away Syrian Refugees By Citing Japanese American Incarceration
(H/T: Snoopy) Roanoke mayor David A. Bowers, a Democrat who is now in his fourth term in office, joined the growing…
Playwright Takes Stand Against White-washing of His Play
The theatre world is embroiled in controversy right now over the attempted White-washing by Clarion University of Lloyd Suh’s cutting-edge…
Yale’s President Announces Major New Commitments to Diversity Initiatives in Wake of Student Protests
In the wake of the massive student protests that have rocked the Yale campus highlighting the institutional racism of the school and…