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Phở, fuh, and the secrets of Vietnamese noodles
By Guest Contributor: Nam Le “It’s pronounced phở, not fuh.” It is a joyless sentence to say, if I am ever saying it at all. My first
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☹️THEY WORKED DANGEROUS JOBS, PUT FOOD ON OUR TABLES DURING THE PANDEMIC, & ARE MEMBERS OF A GROUP WHO PAID $9 BILLION IN U.S. TAXES — Their “Reward” Has Been A Short-Sighted “Slap In The Face” That Also Penalizes More Than 1 Million U.S. Citizen Children! — Julia Preston Reports For The Marshall Project
Julia PrestonAmerican JournalistThe Marshall
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Kenny Xu: The Growing Attacks on Asian American Excellence
Kenny Xu is the president of the nonprofit Color Us United, which advocates "for a race-blind America" and the author of An
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🌽🥔🍠🌶🥑FOOD MATTERS! — PORTLAND FOOD PANTRY CATERS TO IMMIGRANT, ETHNIC COMMUNITIES IN MAINE!
Gillian GrahamStaff WriterPortland Press
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Opinion: Asian Americans Matter in NYC Elections
‘Failing to pay serious attention to Asian American candidates and voters is a mistake. There are 1.3 million AAPI New Yorkers who make up 15
Want to Stop Asian Hate? Start by Passing the Build Back Better Act
By Guest Contributor: Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) Last year, on the campaign
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From Crisis to Capacity: 20 Years of Philanthropy after 9/11
Photo by Monstera from Pexels. In the decade following the September 11th attacks, I ran a national nonprofit organization that advocated for the
Asian American Organizations Issue Joint Statement in Support of Haitian and Black Immigrants
By Guest Contributor: GAPIMNY – Empowering Queer & Trans Asian Pacific Islanders As Asian American organizations and communities, we express
Adoptees Call For Boycott of “Blue Bayou”
Last Friday, filmmaker Justin Chon’s latest – Blue Bayou – opened in theatres nationwide, and I interviewed Chon as well as actor Linh-Dan Pham
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Lack of diversity impacts research into Alzheimer’s and dementia
THIS BLOT IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIOCAST ON SPOTIFY A National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases clinical trial admissions coordinator
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Finding Peace in the End: In Conversation with Blue Bayou’s Linh-Dan Pham
Asian American filmmaker Justin Chon’s latest film – Blue Bayou – opens today in theatres nationwide. In the film, Linh-Dan Pham plays Parker,
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Bringing a Transnational Korean American Adoptee Story to Film: In Conversation with ‘Blue Bayou’ Filmmaker Justin Chon
Asian American filmmaker Justin Chon’s latest film – Blue Bayou – opens today in theatres nationwide. Blue Bayou tells the story of Korean
Op Ed: A Pandemic, Not War
5 min readPhoto by: blvdone via Shutterstock I stand fully vaccinated and mask-less on a hot summer day in a never-ending line at Trader Joe’s
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Homegrown Foodways in West Virginia Film Series: “Korean Heritage and Kimchi” Premieres September 1
The following is a guest post by West Virginia State Folklorist Emily Hilliard, who directs the West Virginia Folklife Program, based at the West
Delaware State Representative Who Used Anti-Asian, Misogynistic Slurs in Email Won’t Seek Re-election
Content warning: Racist and sexist slurs In late June, Delaware State Representative Gerald Brady (D) sparked backlash after an email he wrote was