AAPI Run: Helen Gym, Philadelphia City Council Member
What is your full name?Helen Hae-Liun Gym What office are you seeking and/or what office do you currently hold?I was…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
OCA Staff and Interns Demand Accountability in Open Letter
By Guest Contributor: Anonymous For recent college graduates with a passion for social justice, non-profit civil rights organizations make a…
Solidarity is Love: Taking Asian Diasporic Feminists Back to Black and Asian Feminism in the ’60s
By: Victoria M. Huỳnh Nearly eight months into 2020, and there is so much to grieve. We are amidst a…
AAPI Run: Chris Chyung, Incumbent for IN State Representative, District 15
What is your full name?Chris Chyung What office are you seeking?Indiana State Representative, District 15. Running for re-election after winning…
Sen. Kamala Harris is First Black Woman and First Asian American Vice Presidential Nominee on A Major Party Ticket
Ending months of speculation, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Joe Biden announced today that he has selected California Senator Kamala…
Lifting the veil on conditional whiteness: A wake-up call to Asian Americans still holding on to the Model Minority Myth
By Guest Contributor: Dorothy He Over the past few months, many non-Black Asian Americans across the country watched as our…
AAPI Run: David Kim, Candidate for Congress, CA-34
What is your full name?David Kim What office are you seeking?I am running for Congress in California’s 34th District. The…
AAPI Run: Jackie Leung, Candidate for OR House of Representatives, District 19
Jackie Leung is endorsed by Run for Something, which recruits and supports talented, passionate young people who advocate for progressive values…
AAPI Run: Radhika Kunnel, Candidate for NV State Assembly, District 2
Once again, a record number of Asian Americans and a growing number of Pacific Islanders are running for public office…
Hmong Americans Are Not Simply “Caught up” in America’s Racial Conflicts. We are Actively Engaged In It.
By Guest Contributor: Kong Pheng Pha Conversations have proliferated on social media debating Hmong Americans’ position in the ongoing racial conflicts…
AAPI Run: Jeremy Akbar Cooney, Candidate for NY State Senate, District 56
Jeremy Akbar Cooney is endorsed by Run for Something, which recruits and supports talented, passionate young people who advocate for progressive…
Asians 4 Black Lives: Structural Racism is the Pandemic, Interdependence and Solidarity is the Cure
By Guest Contributor: Asians4BlackLives (@Asians4BlkLives) This essay was originally posted on Medium, and is republished here at the request of…