Asian Americans, dutifully trying to meet early decision college deadlines last week, may have found themselves–like my daughter—on the Common App website.
After the experience, I’m not sure if any of the apps got to the colleges to which she applied.
But she did get this notice: “Congratulations
“You go to the United States where they pick money on trees,” Larry Itliong, the Filipino American labor leader and the equal to Cesar Chavez, says on a special tape recording of a classroom talk at Debra Panganiban Louie’s Asian American class at UC Santa Cruz in 1976.
“Did that happen? Hell, no,”
Bullies had their way with the public last week in Congress and on a highway in New York City.
I thought that for inspiring real rage, there could be nothing quite like watching video bits of the Sen. Ted Cruz filibuster on C-SPAN. Cruz frivolously compared this publicity stunt to the Bataan Death
It’s hard not to think of the final episode of “Breaking Bad” right about now, because its recent shutdown is all very natural.
The federal government’s isn’t.
And in the interest of our democracy, it is worth a spoiler alert.
The hit TV show, which is really about what good moral desperate peopl
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler saved an awkward Emmy show opener with a few well-timed twerk jokes. But then Fey stumbled onto the stage throwing her cleavage out of alignment, and the show never quite regained its footing.
No matter how badly Neil Patrick Harris (nee TV’s “Doogie Howser, M.D.”) tried to
For those of us who scan mainstream American culture for blips of Asian American life, it was quite a wild weekend when the two biggest stories in our universe–Julie Chen’s secret revelation of double-eyelid surgery and the unprecedented Asian American representation on the once lily-white Miss Amer
It was practically the impossible dream, to think that President Obama could match the oratorical greatness of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech—even on the 50th anniversary of its delivery at the March on Washington.
I would have been happy with something like a “state of the stat
As the speeches ended, Asian Americans were at the start of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
I was in front of the march banner and took this photo. I could see Rev. Al Sharpton and Rep. John Lewis. For a brief moment, they held the pose and then it began–a massive non-stop flow o
If you’re a card-carrying member of the Model Minority, the ones always vying to be first, then why aren’t you at the front of the line for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington?
The historic march in 1963–that galvanized a movement and brought on such landmark measures as the Civil Right
Too bad law enforcement agents never seem to profile the likes of Whitey Bulger and James Lee DiMaggio.
For some reason, the white bad guy stereotypes just don’t stick like the black, Latino hoodie hood.
But this week, we got lots of bolts of reality. Bulger finally was convicted after 16 years on
If you haven’t noticed, in one week the anti-Asian/Asian American meter was off the charts and maxing out in the red.
But it’s likely that you, like everyone else, probably didn’t even notice.
Asian American cultural slights? Are you kidding? Who takes those seriously as civil rights violations?
If you’re a CNBC watcher, chances are you barely have the attention span for a stock ticker. So here’s an executive summary: The phrase “Chink in the Armor” shouldn’t be used–unless you’re complaining about how Guinevere screwed up your dry cleaning.
Remember the big race conversation that Presiden
Three mid-level managers at KTVU-Oakland, CA were fired over the broadcasting of fake Asian names in the coverage of the Asiana Airlines crash Wednesday, according to reports on SFGate.com.
It was first reported on Rich Lieberman’s 415 Media website.
Years ago, I knew professionally one of those f
If the George Zimmerman verdict doesn’t feel like justice, it’s because his legal team in the Trayvon Martin killing focused on a self-defense strategy.
Nothing wrong with that; it proved to be a good one for Zimmerman. Especially when the prosecution went along with the idea, essentially cancellin
Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, the two 16-year-old Chinese school girls who died in the Asiana Airlines crash this weekend, aren’t around to experience the kind of knee-jerky modern racism toward Asians the tragedy inspired in both mainstream and social media.
They’ve been spared.
But 14-year-old Mi
Sandra Hernandez and Mailee Wang finally got their June wedding–to each other.
San Francisco got the jump on history, opening its City Hall for business over the weekend with the Supreme Court ruling on Prop 8 having cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California.
On Saturday, nearly 250 marr
It was like an early Independence Day celebration.
Pride parades took place in New York, Houston, and San Francisco over the weekend. As a straight male, I witnessed the scene in all three cities in the past. (I remember going to the Farm House in Houston in 1975!) As a journalist in San Francisco,
To me, Supreme Court rulings always tend to be so Solomonic.
But in Fisher v. University of Texas, SCOTUS, in its wisdom, actually found a way to cut the baby in half without cutting up the baby.
Instead of using Fisher as the case to end affirmative action, SCOTUS chose to vacate the ruling that
The Supreme Court has a flair for the dramatic. But it’s not quite “Waiting for Godot.” We do know all the critical decisions people have been waiting for will be decided before the Court’s summer recess. Besides, those robes need to be dry-cleaned.
Since technically you don’t need to have a law de
If you’ve had time to let it sink in this weekend as you touched and manipulated your second brain–a/k/a your smartphone–then you know Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old CIA operative out of Hawaii, really shouldn’t be in hiding.
He should be hailed as a 21st century patriot, a latter-day Paul Revere
