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
My older Filipino American friends who fought and escaped martial law in their native land know it when they see it–democracy in turmoil.
Now it’s America’s turn.
Can our country survive the final weeks of the Trump stress test?
While hundreds die every day of Covid, our nation is dying political
I was trying to drink up all the leftover vegan eggnog from the holiday parties I didn’t have, when, of course, Donald Trump signed the $900 billion pandemic relief bill.
Why? He’s setting us up for the real con.
You can’t be the hero of the pandemic you helped spread if you don’t pass out some mo
When I talked about a pro-democracy movement in a recent column, that was no idle chit-chat. If you’re one of the nearly 160 million who voted in the last election, it’s time to protect your franchise and let people know that the votes have been counted. Now that the electors have certified the Bide
After one memorable visit, I unabashedly love Hong Kong and still keep a watch on what’s happening there. But the story there is often overshadowed by the dual viruses affecting our world, Covid and Trump.
If you’ve wondered about the conservative response to the recent arrests of Hong Kong pro-dem
History is always worth reading simply because you’ll never know the new things you’ll learn. Or the old beliefs you’ll have to revise.
That’s especially true with subjects you think you know so much about. And that might make you marvel at how miraculous it is that we can even have a coalition of
A Filipino American friend, an ardent Republican, posted online something about voter fraud and election theft. He’s one of the 30 percent of Asian Americans who are Trump supporters, and he was hopping mad.
He believes the election was stolen and he has proof! Information from a conservative websi
Donald Trump has finally acknowledged the exit sign.
After nearly a month, reports say someone on his staff, plus other top Republicans, finally appealed to his vanity and convinced him that he was doing more harm to himself than to our democracy.
Always putting himself first, making Donald Trump
