8 Most Popular Posts (Last Seven Days)
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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Do Asians Have Body Hair?
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A Guide To A Buddhist/Chinese/American Funeral
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Ronny Chieng & Old Spice’s “The Expert”
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Hizashi no Naka no Rairu
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Asians Behaving Badly: Edward Younghoon Shin Alledgedly Murders Business Partner & Blogs About It
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Internet Page Reveals How to Talk Dirty in Tagalog
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Author Archives: Jeff
San Jose to Add Delano Manongs Park, named for Filipino American Farm Workers
The City of San Jose is adding a new park called Delano Manongs Park, honoring the Delano Manong farm workers, key players in the founding of the United Farm workers and the Delano Grape strike. According to this City of … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, History, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged Farm Workers, Manongs, San Jose, The Delano Manongs
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Asian Americans raise Visibility at the 2021 Academy Awards
Asian Americans became increasingly visible at the 2021 Academy awards, with Chloe Zhao getting Best Director and winning Best Picture for Nomadland. Youn Yuh-jung won best supporting actress for her role in Minari. H.E.R. won an award for best song … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Academy Awards, Chloe Zhao, H.E.R., Minari, Nomadland, Oscars, Youn Yuh-jung
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Senate Passes COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act by 94-1 Margin
The United States Senate passed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which would improve data collection of hate crimes associated with COVID-19 and expand public awareness of those crimes, in a rare bipartisan vote of 94-1. The bill was sponsored by … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, hate crimes, Jerry Moran, mazie hirono, Richard Blumenthal, US Senate
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From Across the Counter – A Choreography raising funds for Feeding America
With so much negative news about attacks on Asian Americans, to see this dance video choreographed and performed by Fuschia Dance as a fund raiser run by Virtual Arts for Humanity for Feeding America was a refreshing change of pace. … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Entertainment, The Arts
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, dance, Feeding American, food banks, Fuschia Dance, Virtual Arts for Humanity
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The Stories of our Elders: Lola’s Sacrifices and Life Lessons
With our Asian American elders under attack, we should remember that one way to honor them is to preserve their stories. One really convenient and great way to do that is through StoryCorps, which provides apps to record their stories … Continue reading
TurboVax creator Huge Ma honored by New York officials and Andrew Yang
TurboVax is a web site and twitter feed that helps New Yorkers simply and easily find and register for COVID-19 vaccinations. New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang and Congressman Ritchie Torres honored TurboVax’s creator, Huge Ma, for his work … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Local, New York
Tagged Andrew Yang, coronavirus, COVID-19, Huge Ma, Ritchie Torres, Turbovax, vaccination
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“Leave the Door Open” with Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak nears the Top of Charts
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak have formed the group Silk Sonic, and their release of Leave the Door Open is nearing the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart (I put a snippet of the charts below for the week … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Music
Tagged Anderson Paak, Bruno Mars, bts, H.E.R., Leave the Door Open, Olivia Rodrigo, Silk Sonic
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Grieving Asian Widow Receives “Go back to your country” Letter
After burying her husband Byong, Yong Choi received the letter that we have included in this post. Byong and Yong Choi created successful businesses, raised four daughters, and then moved to the retirement community of Leisure World in Seal Beach, … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Southern California
Tagged Perpetual Foreigner, Seal Beach
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Pixar Makes “Float” and “Wind” Shorts Available to All during surge in Anti-Asian Hate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HAGuju_yKY Pixar has made two Asian American themed shorts, Float and Wind, available on YouTube and free to all. In statement on each of the shorts, Pixar explains why they did this: Pixar Animation Studios and the SparkShorts filmmakers of … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Movies, The Arts
Tagged #StopAsianHate, Float, Pixar, Sparkshorts, Wind, youtube
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NBA G League Dealing Internally with Player who called Jeremy Lin “Coronavirus”
The NBA has identified the player who Jeremy Lin said called him “coronavirus” during G-League play. Lin, who went back to the NBA’s development league in order work his way back into the NBA after playing for the Beijing Ducks, … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, San Francisco Bay Area, Sports
Tagged basketball, coronavirus, G League, Jeremy Lin, NBA
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8 Questions with Joses Wong, creator of the game Angry See Lai
In this post, we talk with Joses Wong, creator of the board game Angry See Lai. You don’t see Asian-oriented board games every day, so we took this opportunity to ask him 8 questions. At the end of the interview, … Continue reading
Asian American Youth Poet Laureates winning Recognitions
While Amanda Gorman has become well known for being the first US National Youth Poet Laureate and speaking at the Joe Biden presidential inauguration, cities all over the US also have Youth Poet Laureate programs, with many Asian Americans as … Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Alexandra Huynh, Grace Nakadegawa-Lee, Poetry, Serena Yang, US National Youth Poet Laureate
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