I saw a crying Asian American woman on the TV news.
She reminded me of my daughters.
What is worse? To kill abortion in America, or to kill our sense of freedom and American democracy?
In Friday’s rulings, the Supreme Court of the United States managed to do both. The court declared itself a poli
This weekend is a confluence of historic moments on one day, June 19th, that should make every Asian American and everyone, not just members of the BIPOC community, pause for meditation.
Sunday is Father’s Day, and for so many of us, we are here because of an action our parents and forebears took t
To paraphrase the Bard, if all the world were a stage–like the Tonys–we’d certainly be better off. Especially if Ariana DeBose emceed everything.
I’ll talk about the necessary diversion that is Broadway in a sec, and the importance of getting our diverse stories—the real narratives of our lives—tol
I’m paying over $6 dollars for gas, am concerned over record inflation, general economic inequity, plus the lack of attention to public health amidst a pandemic, climate change, prospects of greater global conflicts, not to mention racism.
Oh, and gun violence.
How about you?
Think you should vot
The first mass killing I ever covered in my journalism career was in 1980.
It was in East Texas, about 90 minutes by helicopter from Dallas.
I saw a lot of Texas underneath me that day as I landed in a place called Daingerfield.
There, a shooter named Alvin Lee King III, dressed in camouflage gar
I look at the two pictures, one of Amerie Jo Garza, the ten-year-old honor student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The other of her classmate, Xavier Lopez, holding his honor roll certificate.
These students were a big part of America’s diverse future.
And now they are a big part of Am
This week, we all got a lesson about the concept of “strategic ambiguity.”
That’s the strategy that says it’s sometimes helpful to speak out of both sides of your mouth.
Good for international diplomacy, perhaps.
Just not for Covid policy.
I shall explain, and give you a way to develop your own
America is trying to let the three most publicized shooting incidents of the last week fade away.
We can’t afford to let that happen again. Not after Newtown. Orlando. Las Vegas. Not to mention Christchurch, New Zealand. Have you forgotten all those?
The Buffalo supermarket shooting was like an ec
Ten African American people in Buffalo shot dead on Saturday in a shocking racist killing. It was a headline the country didn’t need. We have too many of them already.
Surely, Asian Americans know the violence all too well.
May has been one violent Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander H
If you think democracy is getting tarnished in America, you could be a dual citizen of the U.S. and the Philippines. And then you’d be feeling twice as bad today.
Monday, May 9 is election day in the Philippines.
And it looks like the U.S.’s first colony–which ultimately was modeled to be our demo
I wasn’t thinking about Norm on the first week of what he first coined as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
On my “micro” news/talk show on the web, I was prepared on Tuesday to talk about the Supreme Court leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose.
Did y
Let me be the first to welcome you to May, Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, our month in the nation’s diversity calendar.
It begins as we all wait to see if anyone famous/important tests positive for Covid after the weekend’s 3,000 person indoor celebration of free-speech and normalc
When an Asian American politician accuses an opponent of racism, that’s usually worth a mention.
But it’s worth a double take when the accusation is made by one Asian American against another.
Asian vs. Asian racism? That’s the issue in California, and it’s a situation the entire AAPI community sh
On the week of Earth Day, there was a tornado warning in California’s Central Valley.
A tornado warning in the middle of the farmlands where many of our Chinese, Japanese and Filipino ancestors worked in the 1860s, the 1930s, and the 1940s.
In 2022 there is a tornado warning.
That should be enoug
The day after Easter and a wet egg roll at the White House is the least of Asian Americans’ worries.
Not when a good person is getting rolled in California politics in a raging case of ageism.
Politics is getting nasty in the most populous Asian American state in the nation, with unidentified sour
Of course, Bucha and the atrocities committed by Russia in Ukraine must hold the focus of the free world. We can only interrupt our attention on life and death history with even more history.
And so we do, to cheer a momentous breakthrough for democracy in America.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is the new
This weekend, you could have been celebrating as one of the lucky 3.19 percent to get into Harvard’s incoming freshman Class of 2026.
It’s the lowest acceptance rate ever, which means that of 61,220 people who applied, 1,954 students made the grade. Lucky you?
Or were you in the other pile of 59,2
In anticipation of the Supreme Court review of a lawsuit that claims Harvard’s race-conscious admissions discriminates against Asian American applicants, Harvard College has unveiled a fall class that is 80 percent Asian.
“If the University of California can have 40 and 50 percent Asians at some of
We were all watching the Oscars when Will Smith’s open hand struck Chris Rock. You know Rock felt it.
But I did too. We all did. It wasn’t fake. It was real.
Any Asian American who has lived through the last two years of hate and violence had to flinch. These days, we know about violence in Americ
Ketanji Brown Jackson should be the next Supreme Court Justice of the United States.
Just start calling her KBJ now.
She’s been called, by virtue of her legal experience, the most qualified nominee for the Supreme Court in history. But, of course, she would have to be. People of color always have
