Supreme Court Rules That Census Count Can Be Cut Short
After extending the deadline to count every person in America, a process complicated by the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration reversed course. Critics saw a political motive.
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Report: The Impact of Covid-19 on Asian American employment in NYC
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a record rate of job loss for Asian New Yorkers, with unemployment benefit applications increasing by more than 6000% from February to June of 2020.
In many Asian languages, ‘LGBTQ’ doesn’t translate. Here’s how some fill the gaps.
Many say it’s hard to find accurate and affirming LGBTQ terms in their ancestral languages because existing words are often nonexistent, stereotypical or offensive.
How Asian Americans are fighting bias and racism in 2020
The year 2020 has been a battle for Asian Americans. A battle for their lives in a pandemic. A battle against racial bias and attacks. A battle for respect as essential workers and business owners. Most of all, it has always been a struggle to be seen and heard as Americans.
Trump administration goes to Supreme Court in bid to stop the census
Civil rights groups argue minorities and others in hard-to-count communities would be missed if the counting ended in September instead of October.
New film dismantles South Asian stereotypes tied to spelling bee, mental health
84 percent of recent spelling bee winners came from Indian American families, but director Sujata Day says, “I wanted to depict an Indian family that isn’t out of the box.”