Monthly Archives: March 2025

Alysa Liu Wins the 2025 World Figure Skating Championship

After retiring in 2022 and then unretiring in 2024, Alysa Liu has won the 2025 World Figure Skating Championship, which was held in Boston this year.  She is the first American to win in 19 years.  She is from Richmond … Continue reading

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Status of Laws Requiring the Teaching of AAPI Studies

The Committee of 100 recently released data and a visualization of that data on the status of laws and proposed laws and academic standards regarding AAPI subjects. This is an update on these laws standards since October 3, 2024. I … Continue reading

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Purging (and Restoring) Asian American History on US Military Websites

After reading that references to Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in baseball, were deleted from US Military websites, as part of the Trump Administration’s war against DEI and then restored after some outcry, I wondered if anything happened … Continue reading

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Opinion: More Asian Students Should Embrace CalStates

Prestige: it’s what every high school graduate wants when picking a college to go to, and it is especially true for Asian students. Being Asian myself, I am no stranger to the pressure put on students to attend a high … Continue reading

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The Long History of Chinese Americans in Texas and the Pershing Chinese

We have talked a fair amount about the history of Asian Americans in California and New York, but what about those in Texas, which has the third largest Asian American population in the United States?  This Voice of America (VoA) … Continue reading

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The Accidental Getaway Driver

The Daughter asked me if I knew anything about a movie called The Accidental Getaway Driver, and I had to confess that I had never heard anything about it. Following the link she sent, I was pleasantly surprised by the … Continue reading

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The Rock Springs Massacre and “The Driving Out”

When I saw this story about historical archeologists digging in Wyoming to study a massacre of Chinese residents that happened in 1885, I thought that the Rock Springs massacre was just one of a few massacres of Chinese, such as … Continue reading

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