There’s a reason why you won’t see an Asian American on the main tier of CNN’s GOP debate. Or any presidential debate in the near or distant future.
Republican or Democratic, it doesn’t matter. Most people who see an Asian American simply don’t see “president.”
Even with Donald Trump lowering the
If you’re an American Filipino, an Asian American foodie, or anyone who relishes fresh, local food—before you take another bite, take the time to remember who picked it. Then look up to the skies and thank the Filipinos in the fields of California who brought about fairness, civil rights, and social
I read the Wall Street Journal‘s tweet on Sunday night about China’s president, seen by Asians and Asian Americans around the world.
Is there any question the Wall Street Journal must apologize?
And yet by Monday, nothing.
Just this non-apology.
We recently removed a tweet on our Xi Jinping ar
While in college, I was a TV news intern at WNAC, now WHDH in Boston. Later, I was a full-fledged TV professional and worked as a 20-something reporter at KOLO in Reno, KXAS in Dallas, and KRON and KPIX in San Francisco.
I knew the life Alison Parker and Adam Ward were embarking on.
I know what it
One hundred twenty years ago, in the latter part of August, the U.S. picked a fight with Wong Kim Ark, who then took his case all the way to the Supreme Court. Wong was simply coming back from a vacation to China, when he was denied re-entry in San Francisco.
His Chinese parents weren’t citizens,
I’m at the Asian American Journalists Association’s annual convention this week, a time for personal reflection.
Why didn’t I become a doctor or lawyer?
Just kidding.
From Orwell’s “Why I Write:” “From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a wr
At the first GOP debate, as Republicans flooded the stage with presidential candidates on both the varsity and JV level, I didn’t hear a thing about one very important topic.
Did anyone even mention the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act?
This, of course, is what often is referred to as t
Simon Tam isn’t giving up.
But he admits he was taken aback when an unnecessarily harsh amicus brief by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association was filed this week against his efforts to trademark his rock band’s name, “The Slants.”
“I was completely surprised, especially since NAPAB
If we want a new race conversation, we’d better start with a better approach to race polling.
Earth to everyone. It’s not a black and white world anymore. Especially not in the U.S. So why are polls on race, in their execution and their findings, still mired in a polarizing black/white paradigm?
T
Randall Park has had such a big year as the star of “The Interview” and as the comedic anchor of “Fresh Off the Boat.” He even won a V3con award from the Asian American Journalists Association in Los Angeles this year for representing.
But if he wants a shot at an Emmy, he’d better talk to Easter X
This may be the best time ever for Asian Americans to realize what’s really in their best interest.
And though it may surprise you, it could actually be this thing called “affirmative action.”
It sure isn’t suing Harvard for discrimination.
In fact, the U.S. Education Department has done that coa
Korean American Ryan Garner-Carpenter, 27, walked down Market Street at SF Pride, a new man of options.
Ask him what he’s into and he’ll say leather and whips.
But if he was into all things bondage before last week, now he can add something new–the right to marry.
For gay Asian Americans like R
“I’m doing fine,” Ronald Ebens told me on Wednesday, a day after the June 23 anniversary of Vincent Chin’s brutal murder, when I asked how he was doing.
He was quick to add, “I had a good Father’s Day with my kids.”
And when I asked if he did anything special on Tuesday, the actual day Chin’s life
On June 23, 1982, Vincent Chin died in a Detroit area hospital after efforts to revive him failed. Four days before, on June 19, the night of his bachelor party, Chin suffered a brutal blow to the head with a baseball bat in the hands of Ronald Ebens.
I have tried to get back in touch with Ebens to
Rachel Dolezal nearly wrecked everyone’s Father’s Day.
You don’t often see a daughter outed so publicly by her white father for passing as an African American, but I guess post-racial filial love isn’t necessarily unconditional.
I admit to being somewhat sympathetic of Rachel D., at first. The Cen
It’s Loving Day, folks, and we might as well make it a whole darn weekend of happy mixing, because Asian Americans really had more of a role in the legendary Loving case than you think.
It wasn’t just a white/black thing, as I’ll explain in a bit.
For those of you stuck in a Kim and Kanye World, I
Just when you think we’re safe in 2015, and Asian Americans have a real foothold in American society–living stereotype-free without fear of discrimination–along comes a story like this one involving the Hwang family.
It’s like a brick of firm tofu to the side of the head.
How about being referred
China’s recent military change? Bruce Jenner’s sex change got more attention.
But maybe it’s time we all took note.
About China.
Forget the old joke about the Chinese Navy being a bunch of junk.
It’s big and ready to strike in the South China Sea.
According to a new white paper–the first publ
Maybe retirement in May was really David Letterman’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month tribute.
On Monday, the kick-off to the last week of the “Late Show,” Sue Hum, Letterman costume designer, got her send-off in the “Top Ten Things I’ll miss working at the Late Show.”
Her epitaph now should
What’s better: four As or five?
The four As are those who make up what I call the “Affirmative Action Asian Americans.”
The five As would be those I dub the “Anti-Affirmative Action Asian Americans.”
If you haven’t noticed either group, don’t worry, you will. They’re forming our community’s Mason
