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· Heather Johnson Yu
The live-action “Mulan” movie has been fraught with troubles since its inception. At first, Disney was entertaining a script that featured Mulan falling in love with some random White merchant. Then we discovered that they would adhere to the original a bit more with Mulan…
· Ryan General
Arizona’s Republican party was recently called out for featuring a photo of a fictional family from a 90s sitcom in its website to illustrate its “love” for diversity. The ill-considered image, posted with the caption “Asian Americans”, was apparently taken from 1994 sitcom…
· Ryan General
ESPN reportedly decided to remove an Asian-American college sportscaster from covering an upcoming University of Virginia football game simply because his name is Robert Lee, a namesake of a Confederate general during the Civil War. According to the Washington Times, the…
· Heather Johnson Yu
To my future children, I think about you often; you don’t even exist yet, but you have a way of sneaking into my daydreams and unconscious thoughts. I often imagine what you’ll look like, who you’ll take after, and if you’ll have the same interests I did as a child.
· Aileen Fang
“Hi, would you like any help with directions?” I looked up from my malfunctioning phone and saw an older White woman smiling at me. I forced a smile as I replied, “No thanks, I’m fine.”
· Heather Johnson Yu
Recently, Hong Kong singles have encountered a short video upon logging into Tinder that subliminally discriminates against Asian men. The video features several men as potential matches and the user swipes right on all of them — except the Asian man. This video appears to be…
· Bryan Ke
Two men accused of “bank jugging” in Houston were arrested by the authorities after they followed a Middle Eastern man from a bank to the nearby business district on Richmond. Jamarcus Wilson and Ricky Harrell, both 21, were caught by Houston police last Wednesday, Click 2…
· Ryan General
Firefighters in Taiwan encountered a delay in their attempt to rescue an injured man after a superstitious homeowner reportedly refused to let them pass through. Her reason? She didn’t want her house to become “unlucky.” The rescue team’s first responders who needed to reach a…
· Ryan General
After being dumped by its Internet service provider GoDaddy and many others, neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer soon found itself a new home — under the welcoming arms of Asian American entrepreneur Nick Lim. According to Lim, founder of BitMitigate, he offered his firm’s services…
· Heather Johnson Yu
If you currently exist (and chances are you probably do), you know about the solar eclipse happening today. The celestial event happens every couple years; this one’s path of totality will stretch from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina.
· Ryan General
A former Google employee recently revealed how racial discrimination prompted her to leave the multinational technology company. Qinchen Zhang spoke with Sam Levin and The Guardian to shed light on her departure from working as a technical specialist in the firm’s New York…
· Heather Johnson Yu
“Do you have any birthmarks?” a coworker behind me randomly asked aloud. My ears perked up and I turned my chair around to face his general direction. It was a boring day in the office, as per usual, and any distraction was a welcome reprieve from the dull monotony of the job.
· Max Chang
Editor’s Note: The NY Times has since issued a response to criticism received by readers. We’re in 2017, but The New York Times is in 1997.
· Heather Johnson Yu
An Asian customer received a receipt with the name “Ching Chong” on it when they visited Cornerstone Cafe in New York City, New York. The female customer, who wished to remain anonymous, was shocked when she received the receipt naming her “Ching Chong”, a derogatory term for…
· Ryan General
Just a week after President Donald Trump castigated Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, expressed her support for both the president and her husband. Trump, who had demanded last week that McConnell should “get back to work” on…
· J. Maraan
From robberies targeting Asian-owned businesses in Philadelphia and Sacramento to sexual assaults and rapes targeting Asian women in New York City and Seattle, crimes that target our community are more common than we are led to believe. Earlier this year at the OC Night Market,…
· Ryan General
Three racist teens were caught on video desecrating headstones and mausoleums with Asian names at a cemetery in New York. Security footage in Cypress Hills Cemetery revealed how the still unidentified men went about defiling and damaging over 40 headstones, reports CBS New York.
· Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Dear fellow Asian Americans, Modern day Ku Klux Klan members marched through Charlottesville this past weekend, emboldened, in their own words, by our current President. They lacked hoods but if anyone doubted their intentions, they carried torches and Nazi and Confederate flags…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Meet Niket Biswas. He’s a Manager of Software Engineering at Facebook from New York and uhh… ladies, he’s single.
· Kyle Encina
A recent survey shows that Asian American millennials share similar views with Caucasians in regards to racism, since both groups don’t see it as a top concern. GenForward released a poll which asks millennials what they believe is the most pressing issues of today.
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