On Tuesday, San Francisco became the first city to challenge the legality of President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to cut funding from cities that offer protections to undocumented […]
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Long Beach Mayor: ‘Muslim Ban Does Not Reflect American Values’
Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia has a message to the world: The Muslim ban must not stand. “Long Beach has an amazing Cambodian community because we welcomed them as […]
5 Quotes By Fred Korematsu That Remind Us To Say ‘Never Again’
Fred Korematsu was a Japanese American civil rights leader most famous for his refusal to go to the internment camps during World War II, resulting in a controversial (and […]
US Lawmakers Welcome The Year Of The Rooster
Gung hay fat choy! The Year of the Rooster is upon us, and with it Lunar New Year festivities, which begin tomorrow and stretch until the first week of […]
Rep. Ted Lieu’s Twitter Is Leading The Resistance
It seems everyone is having fun on Twitter this week, and Rep. Ted Lieu is no exception. Lieu, who placed a comparison photo of the crowd size from the inaugurations […]
This San Jose City Councilman Brought A Captain America Shield To His Swearing-In
When a person is being sworn into office to serve as a city council member, he or she usually has to recite an oath while raising one hand and […]
We Asked Protesters At The LA Women’s March: Why Are You Here?
The Los Angeles Women’s March on Saturday gathered, by organizers’ estimates, a whopping 750,000 people to Downtown, making it the second-largest march in the country and the largest the […]
Happy Korean American Day
Today is Korean American Day, a celebration of the first Korean immigrants’ arrival in the U.S. on Jan. 13, 1903. “From small business owners to religious leaders to military […]
A Dating App For Asian Americans Is In Development
Are you ready for EastMeetEast, a dating app specifically for Asian Americans? A New York startup company has raised $1 million to create the app. EastMeetEast is a dating […]
Timeline: Asian American Groups On Affirmative Action
Below is a timeline of events, including a case against Harvard with accusations that the school limits the number of Asian American students it enrolls, of affirmative action, a […]
Asian American Band Fights For Right To Be Called ‘The Slants’
A Portland-based Asian American dance-rock band is at the center of an upcoming Supreme Court case that will determine if the group can officially name themselves “The Slants.” Lee […]
Fox News Is Giving Jesse Watters His Own Show
Jesse Watters, who caused an uproar last year by hosting a racially charged Chinatown segment on “The O’Reilly Factor,” is getting his own show on Fox News. The network announced […]
Korean American Professor Accuses University Of Chicago At Illinois Of Racial Discrimination
A Korean American professor of international relations at the University of Illinois at Chicago is suing the school over allegations that he was discriminated against due to his ethnicity. […]
To The Year 2016: You Suck
First we said goodbye to Prince and David Bowie, then to Victoria Wood, Mohammad Ali and Alan Rickman — and now, this month, we’ve been forced to mourn the […]
Top 5 Asian American Social Media Activism Moments Of 2016
1. #Asians4BlackLives Christina Xu, a Chinese American activist, crowdsourced a letter written via Google Docs by hundreds in the Asian American community to support the Black Lives Matter […]
