9-Man: A bad-ass 80-year-old Chinese American version of volleyball!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YumoQVJdK4U You’ve probably never heard of Nine-Man. I know I never have. But Ursula Liang, a sports journalist turned filmmaker,…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
Please help fund The Voices of Korean Adoption!
Since the start of the Korean War in 1953, over 200,000 children of Korean ethnic descent have been put up…
The Unseen Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence in the #AAPI Community
Today is April Fools’ Day, but it’s also a day for contemplation of a far more serious topic. Today is…
How Colbert Report’s “funny” tweet is actually really racist and anti-Asian; but no, we shouldn’t #CancelColbert
Yowza. So, I just got off the treadmill and checked into my Twitter, only to discover that Stephen Colbert —…
I’m an Asian American woman, and I’m not your happy ending
I remember seeing this billboard on my first trip to Las Vegas. I was really young — maybe a teenager…
AAJA seeking applicants for several scholarships and grants for journalism students!
The Asian American Journalists Association is currently seeking applicants for several scholarships and grants aimed at promoting and supporting journalism…
CA State Sen. Leland Yee arrested, charged with corruption and illegal trafficking of guns
State Senator Leland Yee, who recently made news on this blog for his flip-flop-and-then-flip again on SCA5, was reportedly arrested…
Affirmative Action: When class is not enough
Over the last two weeks, I’ve written a series of posts about affirmative action initiated by the fight over SCA5,…
Top 5 things #SCA5 are totally not like…
SCA5 — Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 that was recently tabled and then withdrawn in California — would’ve done one thing:…
Donate to support education of API prisoners!
I’m a runner, and I write an AAPI political advocacy blog. How could I not be all about this campaign? In…
SCA5 withdrawn, task force called for to address affirmative action | #edu4all
Following Speaker Perez’s halting of SCA5 — a bill that would repeal Prop 209 for institutions of public education in…
Efforts to repeal Prop 209 halted; voters will not vote on #SCA5 this November | #edu4all
Fresh off the presses, California State Assembly Speaker John A. Perez has caved to political pressure levied upon him regarding…