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Category Archives: Current Events
Lawsuit Targets One of Harvard’s Last Bastions of Affirmative Action – Legacies
After losing its affirmative action case in the US Supreme Court, Harvard is seeing one of its last bastions of affirmative action – legacy admissions – become the target of a lawsuit. Lawyers for Civil Rights filed the civil rights … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Education
Tagged college admissions, Harvard, legacies
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Randall Park’s UCLA 2023 Commencement Address
This past week, actor, comedian, writer, director, and UCLA Alumnus Randall Park delivered the keynote speech at all three UCLA 2023 college commencements. In this speech, he walks through his career ups and downs and how they shaped himself to … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Education, Entertainment, Local, Southern California
Tagged Randall Park, ucla
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125th Anniversary of Wong Kim Ark Day [3/28/1898] – Celebration & Commemoration
Another blog post I am woefully late on (but did post the video on YouTube shortly afterwards). I had attended the 125th anniversary back on March 25th commemorating and celebrating the landmark Supreme Court decision of U.S. vs. Wong Kim … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, History, Local, Politics, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged immigration, wong kim ark
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Andrew Yang & Moving Forward Together with the Common Sense Party – San Francisco (4/21/23)
Speakers in the video above – in order of appearance: (click on “Watch on YouTube” for entire timestamped video segments in the video description) Sara Lashanlo, Northern California Volunteer Coordinator, Common Sense Party Andrew Yang, Co-Chair, Forward Party Tom Campbell, … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Local, Politics, San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California
Tagged Andrew Yang, Forward Party
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CAAMFest and Disney+ preview American Born Chinese
Perhaps one of the most anticipated young adult Asian American media releases this year is Disney+’s upcoming streaming series American Born Chinese, The series, set to release on May 24 on Disney+, is based on Gene Luen Yang’s award … Continue reading
C100 & Columbia University: The State of Chinese Americans
Recently, the Committee of 100 and Columbia University published a report on “The State of Chinese Americans”: “New York, NY (April 27, 2023) – Columbia University’s School of Social Work, one of the world’s leading research universities, and Committee of 100, … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, History, Observations, Politics
Tagged #StopAsianHate, chinese americans, demographics, income disparity, StopAAPIHate, voting
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The Attractive, Accomplished, and Fake Chinese Women who want to connect with me
Almost every week, I get a new LinkedIn connect request from an attractive and highly accomplished Chinese woman. When I finally got around to looking in detail at the profile of one of these requestors, it was fake. I figured … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events
Tagged human trafficking, LinkedIn, pig-butchering, scam
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Harvard Asian American Admissions Up in 2023 as Supreme Court Decision Looms
Harvard’s Asian American admissions, subject of a lawsuit that accuses of Harvard of suppressing Asian American admissions, rose to 29.1% for the incoming class for 2023. This is an increase from 2022’s 27.1% of the admitted class, a absolute percentage … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Education
Tagged Affirmative Action, College Admissions Game, Harvard
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Asian American Civic Involvement: A California Study
Although we have talked about Asian American voter apathy for years now, recent elections in places like Georgia are said to have swung based on increased Asian American voter turnout. Does that mean that Asian American civic involvement, which more … Continue reading
California Shootings Highlight the Struggles of Asian American Seniors
After the initial shock about hearing about the Half Moon Bay shootings, my next reaction to hearing that Chunli Zhao actions were related to his work on a farm was “why is a 66-year-old working on a farm?” This shooting … Continue reading
Asian American Candidates Tie after Recount – Winner Determined by Drawing Lots
I wrote before about how every vote can make a difference, and when I wrote the story, Murali Srinivasan was beating Justin Wang for Sunnyvale City Council by just one vote. A recount found 3 more ballots – two for … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Local, Politics, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged Justin Wang, Murali Srinivasan, Sunnyvale
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