When Barack Obama first won the presidency in 2008 in an electoral landslide, there was much talk about how the Republican Party needed to do some “soul searching.” People spoke […]
EDITORIAL: It should not take a tragedy for a community to come together
On our front page this week, we ran a story about Danny Vega, a Filipino American who died from injuries sustained during a beating by three young men. Though a […]
First Asian American serial killer movie begins fundraising drive on new crowd-funding site
Los Angeles – The filmmakers responsible for independent hit, The People I’ve Slept With, are joining together again to make Chink, the first Asian American serial killer movie. It is […]
Affordable Care Act to improve data collection, reduce health disparities
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created new draft standards to improve the monitoring of health data by race, ethnicity, sex, primary language, and disability status.
Gender-bending APIs spotlight overlooked segment of Asian population through pageant
That’s what the night called for at Purr, a local bar on Capitol Hill. Purr was one of the many bars that teamed up to help David Luc Nguyen
The first national Asian American civil rights conference to be in L.A.
The 2009 Advancing Justice Conference: Asian American and Pacific Islanders Building New Foundations for Civil Rights is an inaugural national civil rights and social justice conference expected to draw community and government leaders and legal professionals from across the country.
Singapore’s gay community holds first-ever rally
SINGAPORE (AP) — The gay community in tightly controlled Singapore held its first-ever rally on Saturday, May 16, taking advantage of looser laws on public gatherings to call for equality.