8 Most Popular Posts (Last Seven Days)
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Liberty Mutual Insurance’s ‘First Word | Truth Tellers’
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Who Is The Asian Woman Sitting Courtside At Lakers Home Games?
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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Internet Page Reveals How to Talk Dirty in Tagalog
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Review of Netflix Japan’s “Our Secret Diary”
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The Attractive, Accomplished, and Fake Chinese Women who want to connect with me
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The Difference Between Internment Camps and Concentration Camps
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Author Archives: Jeff
TurboVax creator Huge Ma honored by New York officials and Andrew Yang
TurboVax is a web site and twitter feed that helps New Yorkers simply and easily find and register for COVID-19 vaccinations. New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang and Congressman Ritchie Torres honored TurboVax’s creator, Huge Ma, for his work … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Local, New York
Tagged Andrew Yang, coronavirus, COVID-19, Huge Ma, Ritchie Torres, Turbovax, vaccination
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“Leave the Door Open” with Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak nears the Top of Charts
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak have formed the group Silk Sonic, and their release of Leave the Door Open is nearing the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart (I put a snippet of the charts below for the week … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Music
Tagged Anderson Paak, Bruno Mars, bts, H.E.R., Leave the Door Open, Olivia Rodrigo, Silk Sonic
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Grieving Asian Widow Receives “Go back to your country” Letter
After burying her husband Byong, Yong Choi received the letter that we have included in this post. Byong and Yong Choi created successful businesses, raised four daughters, and then moved to the retirement community of Leisure World in Seal Beach, … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Southern California
Tagged Perpetual Foreigner, Seal Beach
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Pixar Makes “Float” and “Wind” Shorts Available to All during surge in Anti-Asian Hate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HAGuju_yKY Pixar has made two Asian American themed shorts, Float and Wind, available on YouTube and free to all. In statement on each of the shorts, Pixar explains why they did this: Pixar Animation Studios and the SparkShorts filmmakers of … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Movies, The Arts
Tagged #StopAsianHate, Float, Pixar, Sparkshorts, Wind, youtube
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NBA G League Dealing Internally with Player who called Jeremy Lin “Coronavirus”
The NBA has identified the player who Jeremy Lin said called him “coronavirus” during G-League play. Lin, who went back to the NBA’s development league in order work his way back into the NBA after playing for the Beijing Ducks, … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, San Francisco Bay Area, Sports
Tagged basketball, coronavirus, G League, Jeremy Lin, NBA
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8 Questions with Joses Wong, creator of the game Angry See Lai
In this post, we talk with Joses Wong, creator of the board game Angry See Lai. You don’t see Asian-oriented board games every day, so we took this opportunity to ask him 8 questions. At the end of the interview, … Continue reading
Asian American Youth Poet Laureates winning Recognitions
While Amanda Gorman has become well known for being the first US National Youth Poet Laureate and speaking at the Joe Biden presidential inauguration, cities all over the US also have Youth Poet Laureate programs, with many Asian Americans as … Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Alexandra Huynh, Grace Nakadegawa-Lee, Poetry, Serena Yang, US National Youth Poet Laureate
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Randall Park’s Jimmy Woo from Wandavision pitched as star of new Marvel Series
Randall Park’s Jimmy Woo from Disney’s Wandavision TV series has proven to be such an entertaining character that actor/director Stephen Ford has created a pitch to make Park the star of an X-File type show that investigates mysteries in the … Continue reading
Posted in TV
Tagged Agents of Atlas, disney, Dr. Darcy Lewis, Jimmy Woo, Kat Dennings, Marvel, MCU, Randall Park, Stephen Ford, Wandavision
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Home Remodeler’s Discrimination Lawsuit Dismissed
Satish Ramachandran’s discrimination lawsuit against the city of Los Altos and other individuals has been mostly dismissed. Judge Beth Labson Freeman threw out most of the allegations in suit saying that most of them in the lawsuit had already been … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events, Discrimination, Local, Real Estate, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged housing, Los Altos, Satish Ramanchandran, Silicon Valley
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Apple’s 2021 Chinese New Year Short: Nian
Every year, Apple releases a short film for Chinese New Year that is shot on an iPhone. I really liked 2020’s Daughter, and this is year’s short called Nian is less serious but quite charming. Nian is directed by Lulu … Continue reading
How a Remodeling project led to a Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit against a Silicon Valley City
You might think that getting buying a home in an upscale Silicon Valley city like Los Altos, where the median home price is over $2 Million, means that you have “made it” as an American. Satish Ramachandran feels differently. His … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events, Discrimination, Local, Real Estate, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged housing, Los Altos, Satish Ramanchandran, Silicon Valley
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Vegan Filipino Food Vendor Plans to Expand
Vegan Filipino food? When I first heard about vegan Filipino food almost 9 years ago, I was really skeptical. But the restaurant chain Nick’s thrived for a long time, and during this Pandemic, owner Reina Montenegro has rebranded the Nick’s … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Drink, Health, Health and Beauty, Lifestyles
Tagged Chef Reina, Filipino food, Reina Montenegro, vegan food
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