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‘There is a bigger picture understanding of how we want to function as a society’ — This Asian American Harvard grad says that the affirmative action cases being heard by SCOTUS will have a greater societal impact that extends past…
For Amos and Mickey Lim, a married gay couple who live with their 14-year-old daughter in San Francisco, the road to love was filled with challenges.
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,…
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…
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 for the…
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