No Hate Crime Charges After Sikh American Man Beaten Days Before Anniversary of 9/11
A mere three days before the 14th anniversary of September 11th, 2001, the Sikh Coalition reports that 53-year-old Inderjit Singh Mukker —…
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Asian Americans, We Must Stand Strong with our Undocumented Immigrants | #MyAsianAmericanStory
Whether it is Donald Trump’s verbal caricature of overseas Chinese businessmen, or Jeb Bush’s proclamation that when it comes to “anchor…
Study: Asian Americans More Likely to be Charged Higher Prices for Princeton Review’s Test Prep Courses
Propublica released findings today suggesting that the Princeton Review — one of the nation’s top standardized test prep services, which offers…
Wall Street Journal Deletes Tweet That Used anti-Asian Slur To Describe China’s President
Last night, the Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) tweeted an off-colour remark using an anti-Asian slur in a headline about China’s president,…
#WomensEqualityDay Forgets Women of Colour
On August 26th, Americans marked the 95th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, after a long and hard-fought battle by…
Trump Mocks Asian Speech Patterns in Campaign Speech
Oh, hell no. Less than an hour after Donald Trump ejected Univision reporter Jorge Ramos from a press conference in Iowa,…
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Jeb Bush Clarifies his Position on “Anchor Babies”: “It’s more related to Asian[s].”
Snoopy believes Jeb Bush — son of the country’s 41st president and brother to the country’s 43rd president — will ultimately emerge…
Birthright Citizenship and How the GOP is Abandoning Asian American Voters
Asian Americans voters are America’s fastest growing population of voters, growing from 1.6% of registered voters in 1996 to 3.4% in…
The New York Times Doubles Down On Its Erasure of AAPI Student Victims of Suicide
When we were freshmen first entering Cornell, an older student told Snoopy in a dubious effort to introduce us to the…
Jindal Cuts Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood as Senate Efforts to Defund Group Fail
In the wake of a smear campaign against Planned Parenthood — one of the nation’s largest healthcare service providers for…
Why is the New York Times Rendering the Suicide Deaths of Asian American Students Invisible?
This post was written with input and inspiration from Snoopy. Yesterday, the New York Times profiled Kathryn DeWitt, a young University…
AAPI Civil Rights Groups File Amicus Brief Opposing Asian American Band “The Slants”
It’s Asian vs. Asian, once again. Earlier this year, I profiled the Oregon-based Asian American rock band, “The Slants“, whose…