“Here Lies Love,” the new Broadway musical, plays into the seduction of the notorious Marcos family of the Philippines. That’s what we all care about, isn’t it?
Would there be any interest in Filipinos at all were it not for the Marcos’ domination in Filipino and Filipino American history?
The sho...
I was feeling sad on Monday. After all, it was 9/11. I was in New York. I was dreading it. What do I do to honor the day?
I’ll never forget where I was in 2001. In the San Francisco Bay Area, I was thinking about trading the markets, so I was up way early with CNBC at 5.46 a.m. Pacific time when th...
Are you ready to kill the colonizer?
You can on Oct. 2 from just about any AMC theater in the country.
If you’re Asian American of any stripe, but especially Filipino, you can get the thrill of seeing a Hollywood movie that gets it right.
One with the narrative where we win. And the colonizer los...
Lawsuit argues that Senate Bill 1 violates numerous federal laws
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - A federal judge will hear arguments starting today in a consolidated trial against Texas’ controversial anti-voter law Senate Bill 1. The trial is scheduled to last several weeks.
Texas politicians passed the sw...
What? You working on Labor Day weekend?Well, yes. On the weekend that Jimmy Buffett died, we must be mindful that he was no Margaritaville slacker. He made hundreds of millions of dollars selling the fantasy of not working hard. He worked plenty hard, albeit in flip-flops.
Or you just do what you l...
A graduate student shooting his professor is not model minority behavior.
But given the proliferation of gun violence in America, maybe it is.
Tailei Qi, 34, a graduate student from China attending the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, was charged with first degree murder in the killing of...
It’s been a historic week in America. After a presidential debate featuring eight Republicans who couldn’t get arrested, we now have one Republican who can. Get arrested, that is. Four times.
He’s the Notorious DJT.
And in our strange twisted democracy, a tremendous number of Republicans still can...
By Sian Cobb
A dozen advocacy organizations have sent a letter to President Joe Biden, asking him to publicly condemn a series of Supreme Court decisions known as the Insular Cases that inhibit residents of the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories from accessing certain constituti...
Judge rules in favor of civil rights groups, stating mail-in ballot ID matching provisions of Senate Bill 1 violate federal law
AUSTIN, TEXAS — A federal court ruled late last week in favor of civil rights groups who filed a lawsuit against anti-voter legislation, Senate Bill 1. The lawsuit, file...
By WCJB Staff
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A battle about a new Florida law that restricts people from China from owning property in the state is headed to a federal appeals court.
Attorneys for four Chinese people and a real-estate brokerage that serves Chinese clients will appeal a ruling last wee...
Broadway loves “Here Lies Love,” the musical about the Marcos dictatorship.
But as audiences leave, I hope they understand what happened forty years ago.
On Aug. 21, 1983, Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino, the Philippine political activist in exile in the U.S., went home to win back freedom for Filipinos li...
Plaintiffs Vow to Appeal Ruling
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal district court judge today refused to preliminarily block SB 264, an unconstitutional Florida law banning many Chinese immigrants, including people here as professors, students, employees, and scientists, from buying a home in large sw...
By Randall/AsAm News
A judge in Tallahassee today released a ruling that refuses to block the implementation of Florida’s law that prohibits many Chinese immigrants from buying a home, reports the Commercial Observer.
The law specifically targets those from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and oth...
I’ve read over the latest indictment on the disgraced former president who wants to be president again. Don’t get inured to the shock of it. That’s the real threat to democracy. And yet we also must understand No. 45 is innocent until proven guilty and will no doubt say that his tweets, his misstate...
“This bill is a first step in combatting harmful racial biases in data and making Asian Americans feel seen.”
BOSTON, MA — Yesterday, Governor Maura Healey signed into law a bill that will combat harmful racial biases in data. The new law mandates the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to collect, or...
My father, a fry cook most of his life in union restaurants in San Francisco, didn’t have much. But he had the right to vote.
After coming here as a colonized Filipino barred from voting, he managed to become a U.S. citizen later in life, which earned him the only real opportunity he had in this co...
If you think I mention Harvard a lot, please forgive me.
I did wait until the sixth word in this piece.
This restraint may not be much compared to those (mostly white) who incessantly debate, “When do I drop the H-bomb?” as a social calculation so as not to alarm people they are in the presence of...
By Brahmjot Kaur/NBC News
A Georgia community is rallying around a Vietnamese American City Council member after a colleague said she was “un-American” and “failed as a citizen of this country” for backing a petition for multilingual voting ballots during city-level elections.
Dozens of residents ...
MORROW, Ga. — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) sent a letter to city officials in Morrow, Georgia in response to the anti-immigrant and erroneous comments made by Councilwoman Dorothy Dean earlier this month.
Dean was reacting to a proposal by Councilwoman Van T. ...
If we apply the Florida educational standards of history to Filipino history, I suppose there would be a “positive benefit” of the Marcos dictatorship—the authoritarian singing and the dancing of the Marcoses themselves!
But wait a minute, the history of a Filipino dictatorship funded and propped u...
