🍵 Details from Half Moon Bay

🍵 AAPI restaurants lost $7.4 billion

🍵 Details emerge from Monterey Park

🍵 Remembering Monterey Park victims

🍵 The hero in the Monterey Park shooting

🍵 Troubling survey on AAPI mental health

Discrimination leads to depression, anxiety 🍵

🍵 ‘Equity and Justice’ for AANHPIs

🍵 Michelle Go’s father speaks

🍵 First Fil Am Miss Universe

🍵 Muslim orgs support fired professor

🍵 The most AANHPI members in congress ever

🍵 Crime pushed Asian voters right

🍵 Fear over Covid discrimination returns

🍵 Professor fired over Islamic art

🍵 Japanese internment sites preserved

🍵 Asian scientists rejected the most

🍵 US bans goods from North Korean slavery

🍵 Hollywood failed in diversity for 2022

🍵 U.S. News’ school rankings to change

🍵 Happy New Year

🍵 Jeremy Lin to leave CBA

🍵 TikTok ban moves step forward

🍵 AAPI votes are swinging elections

🍵 Congress members call for more AAPI TV

🍵 Happy Holidays and thank you so much!

🍵 Trustees back Purdue chancellor

🍵 Young Indian Americans vulnerable

🍵 DDK’s ‘AAPI House’ at Sundance 2023

🍵 NY Chinatown gets $20 million

🍵 Asian American Awards celebrates 20 years

🍵 “Everything Everywhere” snags 14 noms

🍵 Big AAPI voter turnout in LA

🍵 Bill to ban TikTok

🍵 Hate crimes on minorities undercounted

🍵 Racism now a public health crisis

🍵 AAPI Golden Globe noms

🍵 2x AAPI immigrants on TV

🍵 Chinese Americans in the crosshairs

🍵 Pacific Islanders stopped 3x more

🍵 Simu Liu official with girlfriend

🍵 Jeremy Lin fined by China

🍵 Biased NYC health inspectors?

🍵 Not enough AAPIs in local TV news

🍵 Democrat ads in Asian languages

🍵 Law for Native Hawaiian survivors

🍵 Obesity in Asian Americans

🍵 Georgia’s AAPI voters double

🍵 Mandatory training after hate crime

🍵 Win for Sikh students

🍵 NYC Asian voters reject left

🍵 Trump brings ‘China Virus’ back

🍵 AAPIs and poor sleep study

🍵 Yale and Harvard law are out

🍵 Advanced Asian youth

🍵 GOP Rep. wins in California

🍵 23-year-old Indian American flips district

🍵 AAPI businesses warned in Pennsylvania

🍵 More Indian Americans in Congress

🍵 AAPIs voted Democrat

🍵 AAPIs make history in midterms

🍵 ATL’s oldest Japanese restaurant turns 50

🍵 Majority of AAPIs vote in person

🍵 74% of AAPIs support abortion rights

🍵 AAPI celebs want your vote

🍵 CA vs. Hate resource line

🍵 Lead in Hawaii’s school water

🍵 Fake election news on WeChat, WhatsApp

🍵 Spike in Asian, minority homeownership

🍵 SCOTUS hears affirmative action case

🍵 AAPI mail-in voting in danger

🍵 White House’s largest Diwali ever

🍵 Pro-China propaganda in midterms?

🍵 Anti-Asian hate used in political ads

🍵 Seattle defunds anti-Asian hate prevention

🍵 First Indian American on US team at World Cup

🍵 Diwali now a NYC school holiday

🍵 SCOTUS denies Samoans citizenship

🍵 Bias against Asian American students

🍵 ‘Julia Child’ supports Chinatown activist

🍵 Elderly Asians struggle with hunger

🍵 UCLA's $3 million hate study

Asian American students between the ages of 13 and 17 experienced significantly more cyberbullying than their counterparts.

🍵 Asian Americans targeted for cyberbullying

Bernice Bing was an Asian American woman, lesbian, community activist, and artist. Like many of her peers, Bing’s work was overlooked for a long time.

🍵 Forgotten Asian American lesbian artist

“The Joy Luck Club" is getting a sequel in a joint-writing effort by novelist Amy Tan and Oscar-winning screenwriter Ron Bass (“Rain Man”). 

🍵 ‘The Joy Luck Club’ sequel

In fact, almost 72% of corporations admitted that they give less than 10% of their business to Asian American lawyers. 

🍵 Asian female lawyers chosen the least

In Chicago, local Chinatown residents are pushing for more police presence and legal accountability after a recent carjacking and home invasion. 

🍵 Chicago Chinatown gets serious on safety

At times, the perpetrator would break their wrists and brutalize their husbands to steal their bracelets. 

🍵 Bay Area serial robber caught

In Thailand, a mass shooting and stabbing at a daycare center in northeast Thailand’s Uthai Sawan province killed 34 people, including 23 children. 

🍵 Tragedy in Thailand

Last Friday, Black and Asian American employees who filed a class action lawsuit against NASA for discrimination were granted a class certification.

🍵 Asian Americans discriminated at NASA?

R’Bonney Gabriel, who we covered in yesterday’s newsletter, won the national competition became the first Filipino American to win Miss USA. 

🍵 First Filipina wins Miss USA

For the first time ever, the Miss America and Miss USA pageants in Texas have Asian American title holders.

🍵 As-Am beauty queens repping Texas

Today marks the third day of this celebratory month, which first started in October 1992.  

🍵 Happy Filipino American Heritage Month!

San Francisco City Supervisors Shamann Walton and Connie Chan announced their plans to develop a cultural district for Pacific Islander residents.

🍵 SF’s first Pacific Islander district

Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing received a $5.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute.

🍵 $5.1 million for As-Am breast cancer survivors

While many communities may culturally shun the use of marijuana, for Asian Americans, the story is much more complex. 

🍵 Weed’s history in Asian culture

The Association of Asian American Finance Managers (AAAIM) found that 80% of Asian American women in the industry experienced the bamboo ceiling. 

🍵 80% of Asian American women left behind

Twenty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander organizations have banded together to advocate to designate Lunar New Year as a state holiday.

🍵 Lunar New Year a state holiday?

Texas A&M professor and NASA researcher, Zhengdong Cheng, was accused of wire fraud, conspiracy and false statements in August 2020.

🍵 NASA researcher guilty of China ties

This hand-bound 1,000 page book, along with an online searchable database, will be unveiled this Saturday at the Japanese American National Museum.

🍵 125,284 Japanese Americans remembered

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