Public opinion pollsters in the United States survey adults of every racial and ethnic group. Historically, though, while the attitudes of white, Hispanic and Black adults are readily reported, those of Asian Americans are not. That raises a question: If Asian Americans are part of the survey sample, why don’t analysts report their views in […]

Wearing their masks, Donalene Ferrer and two other generations of family members were walking along an Oceanside neighborhood in April when a car pulled up and a woman yelled: “You started the corona!” The accuser, with a baby and a toddler in tow, turned out to be her mother’s neighbor, Ferrer said. Still in shock, […]

APAPA Takes a Stand and is Proactively Involved in Support in November Ballot Initiative to Restore Equity and Opportunity in California SACRAMENTO, CA – One of the most active grassroots organizations of Asian Pacific Islanders Americans (APIA), Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs (APAPA) releases the first of three videos to help educate the APIA […]

Matthew Hubbard, a mathematics professor in Oakland, Calif., said his emails to Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American college freshman, were both a “mistake” and “offensive.” A community college professor in Oakland, Calif., is on administrative leave after asking a Vietnamese-American student to “Anglicize” her name because he felt it sounded “offensive” in English. In […]

The face of Tou Thao haunts me. The Hmong-American police officer stood with his back turned to Derek Chauvin, his partner, as Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds and murdered him. In the video that I saw, Tou Thao is in the foreground and Chauvin is partly visible in […]

With just over four months to go before Americans cast their ballots in the 2020 election, the campaigns of both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will court Asian American voters at a virtual town hall on Saturday, June 27. Biden will make his case directly to the forum, while the Trump […]

The Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and the Black List are listing the best unproduced scripts by and about Asian Americans. Tiffanie Hsu is one of 20 AAPI screenwriters spotlighted by the annual Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment List, which promotes some of the best unproduced scripts of the year. Hsu previously directed […]

Indian Americans are indifferent to the history of Black liberation struggles that paved the way for their own families to immigrate & enjoy benefits in America. For South Asians committed to ending state violence against Black people, it has always been clear that our work goes further, that we must also work to undo anti-Blackness […]

“Many of us wouldn’t even be in this country, if not for Black struggles for justice,” one Asian American activist said. In the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing, teenager Mandy Zhang grew frustrated with the media. Its portrayal of the protests sweeping the country negatively shaped her friends’ and family’s perception of the Black Lives […]

“In Asian families, there’s a lot of this rhetoric of ‘don’t make waves’ and ‘respect your elders.’ Having a conversation where you will make waves and challenge your elders is the first barrier of entry,” one expert said. Kat, a 24-year-old New Yorker, has been talking to her parents about racism since she was 11. […]

Dear Sacramento Bee readers, I’m here to introduce myself. I will be covering Sacramento’s Asian American and Pacific Islander community for The Bee in partnership with Report for America. I’ve previously covered housing and gentrification in Oakland for East Bay Express and tech companies and artificial intelligence for USA TODAY. Most recently, I worked on statehouse […]

There’s a quote from Cathy Park Hong’s provocative and brilliant essay collection “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning” that’s one of the most jarringly apt summaries of the insidious nature of silence I’ve ever read.”The problem with silence is that it can’t speak up and say why it’s silent,” writes Hong. “And so silence collects, […]