…American releases in film, TV, music and literature to cool off with in the A/C. From a new season of the “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj” to a new album…
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PSA: A New Way to Get Covered
…means different things to different people. For Korean Americans and the broader Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community, the law – officially known as the Affordable Care Act…
Chasing Dreams
…Cho, dubbed the “next generation” by one U.S. national team coach, never planned such activism. But it is a crusade he is embracing with a maturity and sense of responsibility…
#KeepAdamHome Sparks a Dialogue on the Deportation of Adult Adoptees
…does not even speak the language. Immigration activists are now advocating for an amendment to the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 (CCA). While CCA grants automatic citizenship to all children…
CAAMFest Puts On 35th Showing With 11-Day Celebration
…famous for winning “Jeopardy!” 11 times. It’s co-directed by Scott Drucker and Yu Gu. The other gala presentation documentary being screened is “The Chinese Exclusion Act,” by Ric Burns and…
Asian Americans: The New White?
…coming as it did during the age of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the yellow peril and Yellow Peril, an influential 1911 book which argued that, in fulfillment of the Book…
New Chinese Super-Man Story Shows How Far America Has Come Since 1937
…a time before, if you consider, the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act.) “[Ching Lung] is a Chinese super genius bent on taking over the Western world,” Gene Luen Yang,…
28 AAPI Leaders Urge Trump To Dump Travel Ban
…racism, bigotry and xenophobia,” the letter reads, citing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Japanese American internment during World War II. Letter signers include congressional…
Where I Come From
…his Asian identity, but this wasn’t to the exclusion of his black identity. In fact, he cites high school as a period when he was “talking black” and “acting black,”…
Outspoken
…became president. The act transformed him into one of the most prominent gay activists in the country. Once a soldier in southern Baghdad, Choi now crisscrosses the United States, making…
April 2012 Issue: Reflections on the Riots 20 Years Later
…system took advantage of the fact that we didn’t have an articulate voice to speak out against the scapegoating going on. Because of that, it seemed like the media was…
Q&A: Filmmaker Justin Chon Talks Storytelling In the Indie Darling ‘Blue Bayou’
…actor and your work on “Gook” and “Ms. Purple,” why was it important for you to direct, write and act in “Blue Bayou?“ JC: There’s a common thread, you know?…
A Look at Same-Sex Marriage in the Korean American Community
…followed by Proposition 22, the original California ban on same-sex marriage. Academic and lesbian activist Ju Hui Judy Han has written extensively over the years about the role of Korean…
June Cover Story: New Jamie Chung Film Brings Attention to Sex Trafficking
…the end, the hardest scene to shoot actually didn’t even involve her. She sat off to the side while a group of male actors playing frat brothers rehearsed a scene…
Patricia Park’s Korean American Retelling of ‘Jane Eyre’
…to me in her limited English, ‘You act like an orphan!’ This never made sense to me,” Park, 34, tells KoreAm via email. “How do you act like an orphan?…
