How to Fight Asian Stereotypes: Disaggregate Data on Asians
Mar 24 2016
This year’s Academy Awards telecast was a perfect opportunity to show how people of color have nuanced, fascinating stories to share with mainstream America.
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Chinese Daily News Workers Win Settlement
Mar 19 2016
LOS ANGELES — A diverse crowd of workers, advocates and journalists gathered at the UCLA Labor Center to celebrate a class action victory for more than 200 employees of Chinese Daily News.
After more than a decade of hard fought litigation, they obtained a $7.8 million settlement against one of the leading Chinese language newspapers in the country. This class action victory represents one of the largest wage justice settlements in Asian American history.
Tagalog Legal Assistance Helpline Launched in LA County
Mar 18 2016
To expand its reach of legal services in the growing Filipino community, non-profit organization Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Los Angeles has launched a free Tagalog helpline to assist the community with citizenship issues.
Why Is It Still Okay to Make Fun of Asians?
Mar 16 2016
At the Oscars last month, in a performance for which he’d be praised for skewering Hollywood’s lack of diversity, host Chris Rock took a moment to introduce PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm that tallies the votes. “They sent us their most dedicated, accurate, and hard-working representatives,” he said. “I want you to please welcome Ming Zhu, Bao Ling, and David Moskowitz.” Three Asian kids in tuxedos walked onto the stage, briefcases in hand. “If anybody is upset about this joke,” Rock added, “just tweet about it on your phone, which was also made by these kids.”
Academy Apologizes For Asian-American Jokes During Oscars Telecast
Mar 15 2016
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- The motion picture academy has apologized for jokes made about Asian Americans during last month's Oscar telecast.
The show drew low ratings while the lack of African American nominees had prompted complaints about diversity prior to the broadcast.
But jokes told by host Chris Rock during the show also prompted complaints from prominent Asian-American members of the entertainment industry.
API’s and Prop. 47 – Overcoming the Stigma of Incarceration
Mar 10 2016
Pictured: Members of ALOFA, an organization spreading the word on Prop. 47 to API’s in Long Beach.
LONG BEACH, Calif. — In middle school, Nicole Bennett-Pote was an honor roll standout even as the walls around her appeared to be crumbling. Her brother was a gang member and her mother was an addict.
Bennett-Pote, who is part Japanese, made a vow then that she would never fall into that life. She stuck to softball and stayed at school everyday until the sun went down to avoid trouble at home.
OC 아시안 커뮤니티도 목소리 높여야
Mar 10 2016
정치인·공직자 배출 통한 파워업 목적 멘토링 계획
캐나다 법조계 활동하며 북한주민인권단체 설립
Asian Americans Now the Fastest-Growing Demographic Group in North Carolina
Mar 9 2016
Amid the demographic shifts transforming North Carolina and its electorate, one has been widely overlooked — the rise of Asian Americans.
'I Have Freedom Now': Service Organizations Unite to Combat 'Modern Day Slavery'
Mar 8 2016
Angela Guanzon remembers learning about human trafficking growing up in the Philippines, but she never imagined that one day she would be a trafficking survivor.
"All I heard about was human or sex trafficking—not labor trafficking," Guanzon, 38, told NBC News.
After graduating from college, Guanzon struggled to find work to support her parents and five siblings. With her father's health rapidly deteriorating, she looked for opportunities outside of the Philippines. In 2005, she was recruited to work as a caretaker at a residential care facility in Long Beach, California.
Asian Student Reports Racial Slurs, Eggs Thrown at Him at USC
Mar 7 2016
EXPOSITION PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An investigation is underway into a possible hate crime at the University of Southern California after a suspect used racial slurs and eggs as a weapon against a student.
USC's Cardinal Gardens is a student housing complex where coeds pay more than $10,000 a year to live. That is where business major Ivan Tsang said he was targeted with eggs and racial epithets over the weekend.
He posted pictures of the egg assault on his Facebook page.
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