A racist confrontation at a North Vancouver café has sparked widespread community support after surveillance footage captured a customer verbally attacking the café owner and telling her to “go back to your country.” Stop Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Advocacy Group is deeply disturbed by the recent racist incident at a café in North Vancouver. Any form […]
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Jane Ying Wu, who took her own life, was cleared of wrongdoing by the US National Institutes of Health. Her family alleges that her employer destroyed her career. By Laurie Udesky Neuroscientist Jane Ying Wu was the subject of an investigation by the US National Institutes of Health as part of US President Donald Trump’s
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By Xintian Wang By Josh Johnson via Unsplash What does it take to be seen as “truly American”? For many, the answer still begins with birthplace. But for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, it suggests a far more complicated reality: citizenship alone does not guarantee belonging; visibility does not always bring understanding; and public perceptions
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By Rick Hasen Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China. In an Instagram video posted on April 1, lifestyle influencer Melissa Strahle poses outdoors before an American flag as soft instrumental music
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By Mark Segraves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mqjMazQCkY A mural going up in the heart of downtown D.C. celebrates women’s suffrage and the Chinese American community as the nation prepares to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. The mural of Chinese American suffragette Mabel Ping-Hua Lee is being painted on the side of Chinatown Garden on H Street. “It’s a great honor,
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By Jessica Xiao Hallmark image promoting All’s Fair in Love and Mahjong A new Hallmark Channel film All’s Fair in Love and Mahjong has drawn criticism from multiple prominent Asian Americans in the media industry. The promotional poster, which was shared on Instagram on Friday, did not feature any visibly Asian cast members or Chinese cultural elements despite
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By Kim Do-yeon The Asian character Chin Zhou (circled) appearing in the film ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2,’ which opens on the 29th. Captured from 20th Century Studios YouTube. Hollywood film “The Devil Wears Prada 2” has been caught up in a racism controversy over the portrayal of a Chinese character, fueling a boycott movement
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Interview by Haiden Bergquist https://youtu.be/tTjAApgK5DU Poetry and Text by Flo Oy Wong Featured Image: They Weren’t Supposed, 1994, 19 x 31″ mixed media (rice sack, sequins, threaded text, silkscreen image). Photo: Bob Hsiang. In 1991, Flo Oy Wong, artist, poet, and educator, was the first Asian American woman appointed by President Helen Klebesadel to the
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By Isabelle A. Lu, Crimson Staff Writer ‘Asian Women I Know’ Dinner Still | By Courtesy of Crystal X. Manyloun Sharing stories of growing up over a dim sum meal: It’s not such a surprising concept — in fact, it feels warm, familiar. There’s also something unplaceably familiar about the title “Asian Women I Know,” and,
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Vancouver, B.C., February 5, 2026 — The Chinese Canadian Museum is proud to announce its feature exhibition Dream Factory: Cantopop Mandopop 1980s–2000 has been recognized with the 2025 Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement: Exhibitions, a national honour presented to institutions that have demonstrated excellence in museum exhibition initiatives. In celebration of this award, Dream Factory, originally scheduled to close