Editorial director of @NBCAsianAmerica. Founder and former executive editor of HuffPost Asian Voices.
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Amid the year-end busyness, I missed this @kimmythepooh story about allegations of unaddressed anti-Asian harassment at the Cy-Fair school district outside Houston.
It's worth a read if you missed it, too. nbcnews.com/news/asian-ameri…
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As traditional U.S. malls struggle to reinvent themselves, those that cater to Asian customers are emerging as popular destinations that blend shopping and community. nbcnews.com/news/asian-ameri…
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This is so exciting. @NBCAsianAmerica has started a newsletter. Please sign up here: link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/nb…
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We started a newsletter on @NBCAsianAmerica! This week, read @sakshi_saroja on Ramaswamy and the debate, @kimmythepooh on Hawaiian sovereignty, @sahilkapur on AAPI voting power and @daysiatolentino on all-Asian friend groups. Sign up here! link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/nb…
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We started a newsletter on @NBCAsianAmerica! This week, read @sakshi_saroja on Ramaswamy and the debate, @kimmythepooh on Hawaiian sovereignty, @sahilkapur on AAPI voting power and @daysiatolentino on all-Asian friend groups. Sign up here! link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/nb…
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🤬 “I was covered in dirt, ashes, my eyes, my mouth, everything. I was just so thirsty,” Cabrera, who entered a hotel in search of water, said. “And there were hundreds of tourists drinking, having fun and not even caring.”
“I think the biggest worry was when we have bodies in that ocean that still had not been discovered, and for us to see them snorkeling when we still haven't retrieved all our dead — that was hard," one local said. nbcnews.com/news/asian-ameri…
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This may be the best reporting on a climate disaster that I have ever seen. nbcnews.com/news/asian-ameri…
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I wrote about Don Tamaki, the 1 non-Black member of CA's reparations task force, who's known for his legal work in the Japanese American redress &reparations movement. He talked solidarity &why reparations for the Black community is a critical issue to JAs
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Many Americans are getting their first taste of what coordinated, hyper-online Hindu nationalist attacks look like with the harassment of Sabrina Siddiqui. Experts expect this is just the beginning. I wrote about the Hindutva movement and how we got here:
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'Beef' is a good show and here is a good article about it
How Netflix’s ‘Beef’ nailed the Korean American evangelical experience
nbcnews.com/news/asian-ameri… via @nbcnews / @kimmythepooh @lalasoo
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Over the last year, I interviewed over a dozen Asian people in the U.S., posing them all one common question: Do you feel represented by the term “Asian American”? For brown, lower-income and minority Asians, the answer was overwhelmingly “No.” Here's why:
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There’s a bill in the Texas Senate right now that would ban all Chinese citizens from buying property (even homes) in the state. I talked to Chinese Texans who are scared and in disbelief, but are fighting. The bill already has the support of the governor.
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I got to chat with @RepRoKhanna about becoming the first Indian chair of the Congressional India Caucus. He told me about his goals, and I asked him about some of the things on our diaspora's mind (including rising Hindu nationalism and visa struggles.)
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“I would only hire Asians if I could,” a professor once told me. “You all are so hard-working.”
She meant it as a compliment.
“To some, Asian work matters more than Asian lives.” ~@mitrakalita @TIME
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My latest with @mirna_alsharif
As Asian Ams attempt to make sense of 2 deadly shootings, experts warn against drawing broad cultural conclusions from the gun violence. The violence, rather, is symptomatic of a “uniquely American phenomenon,” said @DrJenHo.
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I wrote about Monterey Park, which was and will continue to be a beacon for Asian American life
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my latest, on why for Asian women, who contend with historical pressures from both within the community and beyond to make themselves small, Michelle Yeoh’s refusal to wrap up her acceptance speech when the exit track began to play had a deeper meaning.
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.@Kimmythepooh on @tedlieu becoming the highest-ranking Asian American ever in House leadership
Much of @tedlieu’s early yrs were spent w/his family at the Cleveland flea market selling gifts and fending off shoplifters.
“To go from that, to now being in House leadership in the Democratic caucus” shows “the durability of the American dream” nbcnews.com/news/asian-ameri…
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My exclusive interview w/@tedlieu, who will be the highest ranking AAPI in House Dems ever. Lieu, a Taiwanese immigrant, said his early yrs in the U.S. were spent with family at the flea market, selling gifts to make ends meet.
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I profiled @NabeelaforIL, a 23-year-old Indian American Muslim who flipped a Republican Illinois district this election. Come January, she'll be the youngest member of the state's general assembly, and she's causing a global stir.
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Asian American women fall off by 80% at corporate leadership levels, a new report says. @kimmythepooh
Asian American women deal with being seen as overly compliant, as “tiger moms” and as hypersexualized in the workplace. nbcnews.com/news/asian-ameri…