Did you go to church on Easter Sunday?
Did you feel like Vilma Kari?
If you hadn’t heard, Kari, widely identified as “Asian American Woman, 65,” is the Filipino American who was viciously attacked as she walked to church on Easter Monday of Holy Week in New York City.
Her attacker, arrested last ...
As an Asian American Filipino (that’s my new term, I’m an AAF), I’ve been fascinated by the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer accused of murdering George Floyd.
All of the country has. It’s modern America’s racial reckoning.
But I got distracted when I saw reports of two new vicious attac...
Rob Bonta?
Asian Americans around the country better get to know Bonta, nominated on Wednesday to be the first Filipino American Attorney General of California.
Good timing, I’d say. Just when the focus in the news has drafted from Atlanta to Boulder, here comes the announcement that California’s ...
I’m all for recycling. The good kind. Paper. Plastics. Just not the hate.
But what do we have with us in Atlanta?
It’s Vincent Chin with the names changed.
Soon Chung Park, 74, who worked at Gold spa.
Hyun Jung Grant, 51, the single mother who worked at Gold Spa to support herself and her two so...
Suddenly, they see us. We’re in the news. Six Asian American women are dead after a mindless, despicable killing spree in Atlanta. Even President Biden and Vice President Harris will visit the scene on Friday.
Here’s how significant this all is.
In Atlanta, the place where MLK is entombed, we’ve j...
We wait for more details from Georgia. But what we know should put every Asian American on high alert—if you weren’t already.
Eight people are dead in a shooting spree at three massage spas around Atlanta. Six of the victims have been identified as Asian women. Four of them have been confirmed by S...
Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson may be the hope we are looking for.
The part-Black, part-Filipino singer-songwriter–better known as H.E.R.–won a Grammy for song of the year for the George Floyd-inspired protest song, “I Can’t Breathe.”
She is the embodiment of the harmony that comes when we take a love...
Not to brag, but I got the vaccine.
I’m not a food worker, an educator (not presently), or a med worker. Just an unboomed Boomer waiting for my needle. And I finally got it. The Moderna, the one that sounds like it belongs on the shelf next to Gucci and Dolce Gabbana. Pfizer? They didn’t offer it a...
The AALDEF Lunar New Year Gala is coming up on Thursday, March 4 with a difference. You’re going to have to bring your own dinner. It’s an online event, so you’re in charge of your own glam and chow, on your personal sliding scale. You still can see some great awardees on your screen, like the Daily...
Tiger Woods got major media coverage this week. And now everyone knows about Woods’ roll-over accident in Southern California that nearly killed him. Thankfully, he’ll walk again.
But Angelo Quinto won’t.
Woods wasn’t the only Asian American who deserved some headlines.
This week, Quinto got loca...
On the day we remember Executive Order 9066, the act of governance by President Franklin Roosevelt that rounded up and incarcerated innocent Asians, we must acknowledge we live in times when Asian Americans are simply randomly beaten up and killed in public.
Xenophobia lives.
And now, just this we...
Rep. Ted Lieu was a House Manager for the second impeachment. And Sen. Mazie Hirono was there to vote to convict. The diverse Democrats led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, did a great job in presenting the case for truth. But it appears that nothing will put an appropriate close to the nightmare in American d...
Super Bowl LV was not very lively. As the Weeknd and his masks began to outshine the super-spreader game itself, I kept thinking of another more appropriate Tampa Bay champ, at least for the first week of Black History Month.
You do want to properly appreciate a significant Asian part of Black hist...
I didn’t have a photograph. But on my podcast, I can hear his voice.
I’m still thinking about my old pal, the Asian American photographer Corky Lee, and the injustice of his life ending to Covid.
It’s been just about a year since the first U.S. Covid death (Feb. 6, 2020, Santa Clara, Calif).
The ...
“Hey, Emil,” Corky would say.
It was always the opener from my pal Corky Lee, our self-described Asian American photographer laureate. After 73 years, he earned that title for being the man who always had a camera and was always there at every significant Asian American moment.
He saw it all, docu...
If you need a night and day moment on how the nation changed between the last administration and the present, look at one of the four executive orders President Biden signed on Tuesday, January 26.
It’s a memo that lifts up the shade that covers us and lets everyone see us for once. Titled “Memoran...
On Inaugural Day, Kamala was the best Asian American among us. All day. Hooray.
As an Asian American of Filipino descent with a sense of history, I couldn’t keep my eyes off her as she graced my screen adorned in purple, or was that royal blue? It all depended on the light. It was enough to drive m...
I keep thinking of Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ), who made the front page of the Wall Street Journal as he went to his knees to pick up the pieces in the Capitol after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Two weeks later, we’re all still picking up the shards of our shattered democracy. And as we reassemble for a more v...
As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi began the impeachment debate, she quoted Abraham Lincoln, “We cannot escape history.”
Still, Republicans tried in vain to escape truth, justice, and the Constitution, as they attempted to defend the indefensible, Donald J. Trump.
If you have any doubts about impeachin...
In the aftermath of last Wednesday’s insurrection, I’ve had the luxury of nursing a stunned silence. Perhaps to pray. Was I seeing this correctly—Trump declaring war on Congress? That’s what it seemed like. It leaves us with this dilemma: Can we allow the president to stay in office after he urged h...
