Carl Samson

How Janet Yang is preserving the future of Asian cinema

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently announced the creation of the Janet Yang Endowment to Celebrate and Preserve Asian ...

Trump defends blocking Harvard’s foreign students amid legal challenge

President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his administration’s decision to block Harvard University from enrolling international students am...

DOJ probes top Virginia high school over alleged anti-Asian discrimination in admissions

The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Virginia over allegations tha...

UCLA med school accused of discriminating against white, Asian applicants

A federal lawsuit filed against UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine claims that the institution continues to consider race in its admissi...

Democrats target Orange County’s Asian voters in first paid 2026 election ads

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has reportedly launched its first paid advertising campaign of the 2026 election cycl...

Wisconsin celebrates 50th anniversary of Hmong resettlement

Wisconsin commemorated the 50th anniversary of Hmong resettlement on May 14, celebrating a statewide community that has grown to over 55,000...

US rice found to have high levels of arsenic, cadmium

New testing reveals that virtually all rice sold in the U.S. contains arsenic and cadmium, with one-fourth of samples exceeding federal safe...

China steps up to fill US leadership void with $500 million WHO pledge

China has pledged $500 million to the World Health Organization over five years as the country is set to replace the U.S. as the agency’s to...

Fear grips Hawaii’s Filipino teaching community after ICE home raid

A federal immigration raid at a Maui residence housing Filipino teachers has heightened anxiety among educators and drawn sharp criticism fr...

Judge rules Trump admin’s deportation of immigrants to South Sudan violated court order

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration breached his court order when it sent immigrants — including from Asian countr...

Deaf Mongolian man faces deportation without due process

A deaf Mongolian man has spent over 80 days detained at California’s Otay Mesa Detention Center without seeing an immigration judge or acces...

Vietnam approves $1.5 billion Trump Org development amid trade negotiations

The Vietnamese government has approved a $1.5 billion proposal by the Trump Organization and its local partner to build golf courses, hotels...

Stop AAPI Hate calls $2 million grant termination by DOJ an ‘authoritarian overreach’

The Department of Justice has terminated a $2 million grant to Stop AAPI Hate alongside funding for 33 other community organizations as part...

Meet the Asian American woman breaking barriers in Las Vegas politics

Francis Allen-Palenske, who made history as the first Asian American woman elected to both the Nevada state legislature and Las Vegas City C...

Road rage suspect who attacked Asian mom, daughter is assaulted by inmates in Hawaii

Serial road rage suspect Nathaniel Radimak, 38, who allegedly attacked an Asian American mother and daughter in Honolulu earlier this month,...

Supreme Court weighs Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship

Supreme Court justices on Thursday expressed concerns about President Donald Trump’s attempt to enforce his executive order limiting birthri...

Japanese American professor who lectures on racism is targeted in racist attack

A 71-year-old Japanese American professor who teaches about racism was deliberately struck by a vehicle while cycling in Montebello, Califor...

Father of Google teen engineer rejected by multiple universities slams DEI

Palo Alto father Nan Zhong, who has sued multiple universities for allegedly racially discriminating against his son Stanley, has criticized...

Terminal Island’s last Japanese American buildings are under threat

The last two surviving buildings from a once-thriving Japanese American fishing village in Terminal Island, Los Angeles, have been included ...

Texas House passes bill barring Chinese citizens from owning property

The Texas House of Representatives voted 86-59 on Friday to advance legislation that would bar citizens from China and other nations from pu...

Uncertainties linger as US, China agree to 90-day tariff truce

President Donald Trump and China reached a dramatic de-escalation in their trade war, slashing tariffs by 115 percentage points effective We...

Tsuru Aoki, the forgotten first lady of Asian American cinema

Tsuru Aoki quietly carved a path through the silent film era, becoming likely the first Asian actress to achieve leading-lady status in Holl...

Immigrant values, innovative vision: How Passes’ Lucy Guo carved her own path to tech leadership

A narrative version of this interview is available in The Rebel Yellow newsletter. Lucy Guo, who recently surpassed Taylor Swift as the youn...

First K-pop concert in mainland China in 9 years is postponed

An upcoming concert by K-pop boy group Epex in Fuzhou, China, has been “canceled due to issues in the local region,” label C9 Entertainment ...

Seattle author Tessa Hulls wins Pulitzer for debut graphic memoir

Seattle-based Chinese American author Tessa Hulls has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for memoir or autobiography for her graphic memoir “Feedin...

Trump’s attempt to deport Asian immigrants to Libya blocked

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration’s plan to deport Asian immigrants to Libya would violate an existing court ord...

Asian American group sues Yale for alleged discrimination

The Asian American Coalition for Education (AACE), a nonprofit focused on Asian American equal rights in education, filed a federal civil ri...

Chinatown businesses from coast to coast sound alarm over Trump’s China tariff

President Donald Trump’s tariff on Chinese imports continues to impact small businesses in Chinatowns across major cities, threatening their...

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to have more friends … but AI

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has embarked on a media blitz promoting his vision of artificial intelligence companions as a solution to the U.S.’...

Vietnam races against time as Trump’s tariff deadline looms

The U.S. and Vietnam have kicked off critical trade negotiations as the Southeast Asian nation faces a potential 46% tariff that could signi...

Trump freezes funds to clear unexploded mines in Vietnam

The Trump administration has suspended funding for clearing thousands of unexploded mines in Vietnam, threatening reconciliation efforts fiv...

ICE raids Irvine couple’s home over son’s alleged involvement in personnel doxxing

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a couple’s home in Irvine, California, last week as part of an investigation into po...

Philadelphia’s ‘Chinatown Stitch’ project threatened by federal funding cuts

Philadelphia’s $160 million “Chinatown Stitch” project, designed to heal the neighborhood divided decades ago by the Vine Street Expressway,...

Vietnamese refugee suffering from dementia dies in ICE custody in Texas

A 55-year-old Vietnamese refugee with dementia reportedly died of natural causes while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cus...

Indian American student wearing pro-Trump hat attacked near WSU

A Washington State University (WSU) electrical engineering student was reportedly assaulted by a graduate student and a staff member while w...

Michigan lawmaker responds to colleague’s insults that she is ‘very low IQ’

Michigan State Rep. Mai Xiong (D-Warren) issued a forceful response after House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) publicly called her ...