The LAPD is looking for three men who ransacked and stole cash from two Korean restaurants that were open for business Monday night. The suspects distracted employees and got away with $3,500 in cash from Chef Kang Sul Box and $2,800 from Shuto, according to CBS Los Angeles. They also took car keys, credit cards, checks […]

Our 10-year, billion-dollar sojourn into Building Healthy Communities (BHC) taught our foundation a great deal — with community leaders, grantee-partners, and young people as our Professors-in-Residence.  We learned early on that one’s zip code should not determine one’s health destiny – but in America, it does.  We learned that power, voice, and agency at the […]

The teenage suspect reportedly said he thought the family was Chinese and spreading the coronavirus. Federal investigators determined that the man who stabbed an Asian American family out shopping at a Sam’s Club last month committed a hate crime fueled by coronavirus panic, according to an FBI report obtained by ABC News. Three members of […]

Incidents of racist and xenophobic attacks against Asian Americans have surged as cases of COVID-19 escalate in the U.S., which became the new epicenter of the global outbreak last week. As of this writing, the U.S. tops the rest of the world with more than 203,000 cases, followed by Italy (110,574), Spain (102,136), China (82,361) and Germany […]

While viruses and other pathogens do not discriminate between hosts based on race, ethnicity, nationality or immigration status — stigma and misinformation certainly do. I watched the fear spread as public perception of me shifted.Rose Wong / for NBC NewsMarch 9, 2020, 8:22 AM PDTBy Matthew Lee, health policy researcher On the same day that federal […]

With limited English, 10-year-old James Kim broke the ice at lunch with his new classmates talking about Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal, and how they took the Los Angeles Lakers to the championships in 2001. Now living in Long Beach, cheering for Bryant was how Anne Milo Shanahan’s family still connected with cousins back home […]

As she walks through campus and sits in class, Rosen Huynh tries extra hard to suppress her coughs. Fear of the coronavirus, which was first detected in December in China, has spread around the world, and many people like Huynh are suddenly hyperaware of their East Asian roots. Every cough, every wheeze, the 22-year-old says, […]

With the Nevada Caucus quickly approaching next month, numerous political groups are stepping it up in hopes of engaging voters across the state. That’s why the Asian American Pacific Islander Democratic Caucus hosted a mock caucus Monday night at the Divine Dosa and Biryani India restaurant. It was the first time the Asian arm of […]

Last Updated: January 14, 2020 @ 11:44 AM Awkwafina is enjoying a hell of an 18-month run, as are film and TV projects with Asian-American leads and creators. The rapper/actor was asked Tuesday at the Television Critics Association press tour to reflect on the previously marginalized group’s recent progress, which includes projects like her new […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday sent a congratulatory message for Korean American Day, noting the contributions Korean Americans have made to the country, the South Korean consulate in Los Angeles said. In 2005, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution to commemorate Jan. 13 as the day the first […]

At the end of 2018, I looked back on my favorite first-time reads for the year was struck by something interesting. Four out of seven of them were written by authors of Asian descent: Elif Batuman (The Idiot), Aja Gabel (The Ensemble), Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go), and Weike Wang (Chemistry).  Although I’m Asian […]

Raina Huang films a segment for her YouTube channel, which has more than 600 videos. The former UC Riverside student, 25, is one of the few Chinese American competitive food eaters in the U.S.(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times) On a stormy Saturday, Raina Huang settled into a corner at the La Habra Crab Shack and gorged […]