Month: March 2021

Less than 24 hours after targeted attacks on Asian Americans in Georgia, representatives in Illinois discussed a proposal to require an Asian American history curriculum in schools. Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz says this is personal, as she’s a third-generation Chinese American. The bill sponsor said her own family faced discrimination and deportation under the Chinese Exclusion … Read more

Grant makers should follow the lead of President Biden, who said last week, “It’s wrong, it’s un-American, and it must stop.”

A bevy of Asian American leaders and activists on Thursday are poised to testify before a House panel on civil rights about the rise in discrimination and violence against their communities amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“There is an intersectional dynamic going on that others may perceive both Asians and women and Asian women as easier targets,” one professor said.

Although there are so many charming and poignant layers in “Minari,” the critically acclaimed film by Lee Isaac Chung about a Korean immigrant farming family, most describe it as an American Dream story. While others have rightly argued that it’s notat all about the dream (spoiler alert: think lost lifelines, lost marriages, lost identities), one … Read more

If you see someone and automatically assume that they don’t belong, you are already, perhaps unknowingly, part of the problem. That’s at the core of the behavior that allows someone’s friend, sibling or grandparent to get attacked on the subway or verbally abused on their neighborhood block.