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A Decade Later: Assessing Harold T. Yee and His Place in Chinese America

  Harold T. Yee By Douglas S. Chan To recall the untimely passing of Chinese American activist Harold T. Yee at the age of 74 ten years ago is to reflect upon the life and times of an American...

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Congress Must Act Now to Protect Our Right to Vote

  Mee Moua, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC Although spring has just begun, before we know it fall will be here and so too will the midterm elections. If...

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Talking About the Past, and Cooking, With Mother

  “Why don’t you call me anymore?” she asks on the phone, her voice plaintive, barely above a whisper. “No one remembers me, no one cares if I die.” “Mother, I called 3 days ago.” “Liar! That never...

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A Hidden Tragedy: Mental Illness and Suicide Among Asian Americans

    What do Jiwon Lee, Kevin Lee, and Andrew Sun have in common? Sadly, they are three Asian Americans college students who killed themselves in high-profile cases in April at prestigious universities....

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MANAA Slams TMZ For Perpetuating Stereotypes Against Asian Drivers

LOS ANGELES- Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA)–the only organization solely dedicated to monitoring the media and advocating balanced, sensitive, and positive depiction and coverage of...

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Casteism, Lack of Toilets & Poor Policing Claim Lives of Two Girls

    Prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi promised India’s 815 million voters that he would ensure that every home had a potty before he would even build the controversial temple in the town of...

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In Asia, Cheating to the Test

  CNN recently reported that college applications from Chinese foreign students to the US sounded exactly the same. In fact, one admission officer read a phrase in one of the applications that sent up...

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Telltale Signs: Why TPS Matters Even Now

  They are often referred to, half-jokingly, as TNTs, the Tagalog acronym for Tago ng Tago (hiding and hiding) or Takot na Takot (very afraid). But it is no laughing matter to be a Filipino out of...

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Dennis Yang – Why I am Running for San Francisco Board of Education

    Being on the front lines teaching at Lowell High School and building excellent relationships with teachers, administrators, parents, and students, I know what it takes to work effectively and...

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Going Back to Give Back

  Evelyn Abad Landing at the airport near Cebu City filled me with a mix of emotions: happy to be returning to my homeland again, excited for another mission with Rotaplast International that will...

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