Asian Americans

People walk past a board full of pictures celebrating AAPI heritage month

Students push for adding Asian American history to school curriculums across the US

History

Asian Americans face growing discrimination over COVID-19, but racism against the community in the US is nothing new. Now, students are pushing for better representation in the classroom.

Mother of the groom Eleanor Sung-Young (Michelle Yeoh)

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is a big win for Asian American representation in Hollywood — but what about Singaporean representation?

Media
Man in sunglasses in dance pose in front of white, brick wall

He’s the first Asian American dancer in ‘Magic Mike Live’ and his fans are proud of him

Arts
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For immigrant Republicans, Trump’s turn to limit legal immigration creates divisions

Global Politics
Young man at podium in press conference with signs behind him

This college freshman is worried about affirmative action — but not that it will keep him out of Harvard

Education
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What to say when you’re Asian American and someone calls you ‘exotic’

Culture

Paula Williams Madison wasn’t on a panel, but she brought a different take on race to the audience at Asian American ComicCon.

Diabetes test

‘Implicit bias’ may account for a glaring disparity in health care screening

Health

Asian Americans are screened for Type 2 diabetes at lower rates than other groups. Researchers want to know why.

An unfinished painting of a woman

How art can help us better understand the fastest growing group of undocumented immigrants

Justice

For this organization in San Francisco, it’s about reform, breaking stereotypes and building community. And painting.

The cover image of the New Super-Man comic by DC Comics and writer Gene Luen Yang.

DC Comics’ Chinese Superman rights a wrong dating back to 1937

Books

Kenan Kong is the New Superman. He’s a kid from Shanghai. And he represents a huge change in the DC universe.

People in crowd hold up cellphones

How Donald Trump ended up at a Bollywood-themed Hindu rally in New Jersey

Global Politics

It’s not that Indian Americans favor Trump. It’s that Trump reminds many of his Hindu supporters of a political movement in India.