When I saw this category on Jeopardy last Friday, September 24, 2021, I was excited that Asian Americans would be the focus of a category on a popular nationally televised US TV show.  Given the perpertual foreigner stereotype and the fact that some 42% of Americans can’t even name a prominent Asian American, exposure would […]

“I want to take a gun and go down there and kill these individuals.” Last week in Philadelphia, someone sent an anonymous letter to community leaders threatening to “shoot Cambodians.” The typed, one-page letter, reportedly sent last week to the office of the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia, accuses Cambodian residents of setting off fireworks […]

And Other Things to Know From Angry Asian America. 16-year-old Pilot Flies Medical Supplies to Rural Hospitals“TJ Kim can’t play lacrosse — COVID-19 took the sport away. And at age 16, he can’t drive alone. But Kim can fly. And he’s turned his flying lessons into missions of mercy, bringing desperately needed supplies to rural […]