#NotYourModelMinority: Asian Americans Are Not Your Proof that Donald Trump Isn’t Racist
Asian Americans are not your model minorities. We are not your wedges. We are not your license for guilt-free anti-blackness.…
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Over 100 Cambodian American Refugees Face Deportation after Targeted ICE Round-Up
The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) reports that over one hundred Cambodian American refugees have been arrested and detained…
University of Maryland Students Organize Rally for Immigrant Rights as Part of Week of #AAPIAction
This past week, Asian American scholars and activists (organized under the group, AAPIVoices) staged a nationwide week of action (#AAPIAction)…
Families of Plaintiffs in Iconic SCOTUS Japanese American Incarceration Cases File Joint Brief Against Trump Muslim Ban
In an historic move, the families of Gordon Hirabayashi, Minoru Yasui, and Fred Korematsu — the three men behind three…
Asian American Advocacy Group Launches 22-Day, 24hr White House Vigil to Defend Immigrants | #DREAMAction17
Asian American advocacy group, National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), is currently one week into a marathon 22-day vigil…
Kal Penn, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Rest of President’s Arts Committee Resign in Protest of Trump’s Response to Charlottesville
Yesterday, all seventeen private members of President Trump’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities jointly resigned in protest of the…
Trump Will Alienate the AAPI Community with his Anti-Environmentalism
While the week was dominated with giddy speculation over the true meaning of the word ‘covfefe’, a bigger story deserves…
US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Dismissed by Trump Administration
US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, the nation’s youngest and first Indian American Surgeon General, was asked to resign on Friday…
BREAKING: Most of President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Just Resigned in Protest
In a joint letter delivered to the president yesterday (and shared to NBC News Asian America), 10 out of the…
Senator Hirono, Will You Join Our Resistance? | #DearMyAAPIRep
By Guest Contributor: Mark Tseng Putterman (@tsengputterman) Dear Senator Hirono (@mazieforhawaii), On inauguration day, you promised your commitment to “resist…
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Why I Will Join Thousands of Women as we March on Saturday
When I first heard about a planned march to amass the nation’s women to highlight women’s rights and in protest…
#DearMyAAPIRep: Please Join Your AAPI Congressional Colleagues in Boycotting Trump’s Inauguration
To encourage better and broader civic engagement within the AAPI community in Trump’s America, #DearMyAAPIRep is a new feature that…