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The signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which many of you supported (thank you!), gave redress to Japanese Americans who were citizens and legal permanent residents when they were interned during World War II, but Japanese Latin Americans (JLAs) were excluded.

To take Afghan money to pay grieving Americans in order to punish the Taliban is nothing less than larceny as collective punishment

Lin, the first Taiwanese American in the NBA, looked back on his meteoric rise in the 2012 season with the New York Knicks, which led to a personal and public racial reckoning.

“As a non-native English speaker myself, I did not appreciate that it was a derogatory term, as I now understand it is. I am very sorry I used it,” professor Franz Werro wrote.

Many of the most populous cities across the country experienced an uptick in hate crimes last year, a trend that has continued since the start of the pandemic, according to a preliminary report from the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino.

North Jersey is home to large swaths of Asian Americans. Areas such as Fort Lee and Leonia are 40% Asian.