Though 70% of Asian Americans support affirmative action, factors like pressurized school systems in Asia, immigrant trauma and a lack of firsthand knowledge of U.S. racial history have impacted the opposition.

The lawsuit against Harvard is not the first time an elite university has been accused of discriminating against Asian Americans in admissions. In the 1980s, Asian American scholars, parents and activists made similar accusations against more than a dozen universities, including Harvard.

Several students who say they personally benefited from affirmative action testified in federal court in 2018 on behalf of Harvard. One was Sally Chen, the daughter of working-class Chinese immigrants who speak very little English.

Asian Americans as the “model minority” being harmed by affirmative action policies is a myth, Sally Chen said.

On Monday morning, as the justices heard arguments in cases challenging whether race can be a factor for admissions at the University of North Carolina and Harvard, a diverse group brandished signs reading, “I am not a wedge,” “Not your…

The throughline for much Spanish, Vietnamese and Chinese misinformation found on social media is communism. Scammers, religious movements, US right-wing political groups and other countries sow distrust in American institutions and create discord with the claim that they're fighting communist influence in the US political system, though that's far from the truth.

Disinformation is saturating the widely used social media platform WeChat and poses a growing threat to Chinese American voters in the November midterm elections, a new report says.

Under pressure from residents throughout the Monterey Bay area who spoke out at public hearings, organizers in February canceled the Feast of Lanterns. And after more than a century of silence, city officials finally issued a public apology this spring…

Two bills backed by Stop AAPI Hate passed the California State Legislature Tuesday without any opposition.…

Two cases will determine if universities are legally able to consider race as a factor in university enrollment…

Noncitizen voting isn’t a brand new idea. White, landowning, noncitizen men were once allowed to vote in 22 states.…

LGBTQ Asian and Pacific Islander Californians are part of a coalition of community groups and state lawmakers pushing to stem a tide of hate crimes against API individuals and others that has been rising since the start of the COVID-19…

San Francisco’s Superior Court revoked the right to vote in school board elections from non-citizen parents on Friday in response to Orange County lawyer James V. Lacy’s lawsuit against the city over three months ago.…