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Florida College Fires Chinese Professor Under State’s ‘Countries of Concern’ Law

New College of Florida fired Kevin Wang, a professor who sought asylum and is authorized to work in the US.  By Maya Yang The New College of Florida has fired a Chinese language professor under a...

Potential Impact of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order on AA+PI Communities

Written by Michelle De Pacina  In 1898, a young Chinese American cook from San Francisco named Wong Kim Ark stood at the center of a landmark legal battle defining what it means to be American. Born...

Bill to Ban Chinese Nationals from Receiving US Student Visas Sparks Alarm

By Rebecca Trager The US research community has been appalled by legislation that would block all Chinese nationals from receiving student visas. The bill’s sponsor, West Virginia Republican Riley...

Exploring the Hidden Racist Past of the Looney Tunes

By Matt Crowley I have an uncomfortable confession to make: I have never liked the Looney Tunes. Despite the cultural pervasiveness of these characters and a lifelong love of animation on my part...

Son Lux on scoring the multiverse of Everything Everywhere All At Once

By Anton Spice Watching Everything Everywhere All At Once is a bit like being hurled backwards through an amusement arcade in a spinning teacup. Or being sprayed in the face with a confetti gun full...

Remembering Atlanta and the 8 people killed 4 years later

By Kimberly Szeto   The Takeaways Honouring the Victims: Remembering the eight who lost their lives in the 2021 Atlanta Spa Shootings. Continued Advocacy: Emphasizing the need to sustain efforts...

Assaulted. Harassed. This is the reality for Asian Americans a year after the Atlanta spa shootings

By Nicole Chavez and Natasha Chen, CNN Robert Peterson struggled for months to stop thinking about the day his mother and seven other people, mostly Asian women, were shot and killed last year at...

Atlanta spa shootings: Georgia hate crimes law could see first big test

By Lois Beckett and agencies A hate crimes law passed in Georgia amid outrage over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery could get its first major test as part of the murder case against a white man charged...

A Lessonin Shared History

by ZOE VOSS LEE Asian Americans are the fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States. As a community, we come from countless countries, have a diversity of immigration stories, some recent and...