10 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know about HIV/AIDS in Asia | #WorldAIDSDay
Today is World AIDS Day, a day to raise awareness about the global fight to end new HIV infections and…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
Please donate NOW to support Grace Lee Boggs’ hospice care!
Earlier this year, the AAPI community was devastated to learn that revered civil rights icon Grace Lee Boggs was in…
Patsy Mink to be post-humously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Obama is scheduled to honour 19 individuals today with receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award…
Dim sum workers win landmark labour victory against Yank Sing restaurant in San Francisco
Last week, nearly 300 dim sum workers won a landmark $4 million dollar settlement from major San Francisco-area restaurant chain,…
Help Hyphen make an important magazine issue on AAPI health go to print! | #APIHealthTalk
Hyphen Magazine, the nation’s premiere Asian American magazine needs your help to help fund their next print issue, which will…
Obama makes a small – but necessary – first step towards comprehensive immigration reform
In a speech — less than 20 minutes long and snubbed by the country’s major cable networks — President Barack…
#AAPI groups & writing in support of affirmative action | #IAmNotYourWedge #BlockBlum
With Monday’s news of two lawsuits filed by a conservative anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum hoping to challenge affirmative action…
Rep. Ami Bera wins re-election, sets new record for #AAPI in Congress
Yep, my Midterm Elections wrap-up post was wrong on Bera’s race. Bera, who was running for re-election while holding what some…
#IAmNotYourWedge: Lawsuits against Harvard & UNC assert anti-Asian discrimination in admissions
On Monday, a newly formed group called Students for Fair Admissions which was created by Edward Blum — a Republican…
Suspect arrested and charged with murder in Sunday’s NYC subway shoving death
A man suspected of pushing 61-year-old Wai Kuen Kwok onto the subway tracks to his death in the Bronx on…
Sunday’s attack means last 3 victims killed in NYC by being pushed into subway tracks were all Asian American men
I hate to write a sensationalized headline like this one, but I can’t help but ask: why have the last…
Missing tech worker’s body found; here’s how to donate to the Ha family
(H/T Angry Asian Man) Stanford alumnus Daniel Ha ’10, who worked as an iOS developer at local start-up Metromile, went…