Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #asianamericans, aggregated by home.social.
Remembering Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s First Asian-American Star
“Wong provides us with a road map of how to forge ahead even under the most difficult of circumstances.”
https://lithub.com/remembering-anna-may-wong-hollywoods-first-asian-american-star/
Sikh Truck Drivers Worried Following Stabbing Attack at Rest Stop
For years,…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AsianAmericans #BeardsandMustaches #Bethlehem(Pa) #California #Cheyenne(Wyo) #Chicago(Ill) #HomelandSecurityDepartment #ImmigrationandEmigration #IndianAmericans #MidtermElections(2026) #MuslimsandIslam #Punjabi(EthnicGroup) #ReligionandBelief #SikhsandSikhism #StopAAPIHate #TrucksandTrucking #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesPoliticsandGovernment #Us #USA #Wyoming
https://www.newsbeep.com/739520/
This Joint Might Have the Most Unique Menu in Texas Barbecue https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/16670/ #AsianAmericans #bbq #BBQJointReviews #Brisket #Houston #Sausage #VietnameseAmericans #VietnameseRestaurant #VietnameseRestaurants
How memories of Japanese American imprisonment during WWII guided the US response to 9/11 | National
In the chaotic hours and days following the attacks, Mineta did not yet know that his childhood incarceration…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #9/11 #asianamericans #franklindelanoroosevelt #Japanese #japaneseamericans #japaneseinternmentcamps #politics+society #presidentgeorgew.bush
https://www.europesays.com/japan/71183/
How memories of Japanese American imprisonment during WWII guided the US response to 9/11 | World & Nation
In the chaotic hours and days following the attacks, Mineta did not yet know that his childhood incarceration…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #9/11 #asianamericans #franklindelanoroosevelt #Japanese #japaneseamericans #japaneseinternmentcamps #politics+society #presidentgeorgew.bush
https://www.europesays.com/japan/71049/
How memories of Japanese American imprisonment during WWII guided the US response to 9/11 | National
In the chaotic hours and days following the attacks, Mineta did not yet know that his childhood incarceration…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #9/11 #asianamericans #franklindelanoroosevelt #Japanese #japaneseamericans #japaneseinternmentcamps #politics+society #presidentgeorgew.bush
https://www.europesays.com/japan/71021/
How memories of Japanese American imprisonment during WWII guided the US response to 9/11 | National
In the chaotic hours and days following the attacks, Mineta did not yet know that his childhood incarceration…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #9/11 #asianamericans #franklindelanoroosevelt #Japanese #japaneseamericans #japaneseinternmentcamps #politics+society #presidentgeorgew.bush
https://www.europesays.com/japan/71015/
https://www.europesays.com/people/147078/ Elon Musk calls for exile of anyone who ‘doesn’t love’ America #AsianAmericans #CampaignFinance #ElonMusk #KarenBass #Musk #NithyaRaman #SocialMediaPlatform #SpencerPratt #XPratt
How a Nation of Immigrants Traces Its Roots
Why are there so many Greeks in Tarpon Springs, Fla.? Because in the early 1900s, Greek sponge divers…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AsianAmericans #ChineseAmericans #German-Americans #Hispanic-Americans #ImmigrationandEmigration #Irish-Americans #Korean-Americans #Mexican-Americans #Nigerian-Americans #Salvadoran-Americans #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesSemiquincentennial(2026) #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/623769/
"In those 1990s clubs and car shows, you could see and feel that Asian Americans weren’t assimilating culture. We were creating it."
Ky-Phong Tran for Zócalo Public Square: https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/my-midlife-crisis-corolla-fast-furious-fully-modded/
#Longreads #AsianAmericans #Vietnamese #Cars #Japanese #Toyota #Culture #Identity
AsAmNews: New digital series showcases ‘The United States of Asian+America’. “The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) has launched a new digital series on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram that will feature ‘AAPI trailblazers and stories that changed America.’ The United States of Asian+America, produced in partnership with Wong Fu Productions, launched this past week with a trailer and the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/01/asamnews-new-digital-series-showcases-the-united-states-of-asianamerica/
Former Arcadia mayor’s guilty plea to being illegal agent of China concerns residents
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 2024, voters in the Southern California city of Arcadia elected the …
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AlizaMo #AprilVerlato #AsianAmericans #Beijing #California #China #Chinagovernment #DomesticNews #eileenwang #GeneSun #Generalnews #Immigration #Indictments #johnchen #LosAngeles #PaulCheng #Politics #Raceandethnicity #TedTseng #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/565694/
NBC DFW: Dallas Asian American Historical Society finds home for archive at library. “After years of collecting stories often left out of the history books, the Dallas Asian American Historical Society has found a permanent home to preserve them. The organization announced this month that it is partnering with the Dallas Public Library to house its growing collection of artifacts, photographs, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/29/nbc-dfw-dallas-asian-american-historical-society-finds-home-for-archive-at-library/
#Voting is a form of resistance. #vote because that's the power you still have. #vote2026 and take family and friends with you. #democracy is our responsibility. Protect #lgbtq #trans #qpoc #blackpeople #hispanicAmericans #asianAmericans #latinoUSA
If you don't register to vote and then vote in every election, especially midterms, then your privilege is showing... and that is not an acceptable excuse anymore.
AZ AANHPI is screening Minari (2021) Tuesday, May 13 at 6 PM for AANHPI Heritage Month. The film follows a South Korean family navigating economic hardship and belonging in rural Arkansas in the 1980s. Six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Community discussion follows. https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/948462/ #AANHPI #AANHPIHeritageMonth #AsianAmericans #FilmScreening
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UCLA: ‘Our history is your history’: Multimedia textbook brings Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences to the forefront. “Written by more than 100 leading scholars, journalists, organizers and community historians, and featuring an extensive archive of videos, photographs, audio clips, poems and interviews, plus ready-to-use lesson plans for students in high school and college, it […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/10/our-history-is-your-history-multimedia-textbook-brings-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-experiences-to-the-forefront-ucla/
https://www.europesays.com/people/43756/ Democrats Weigh Whether a Lawmaker’s Ethnicity Counts More Than Ideology #AsianAmericans #david #DemocraticParty #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica #Elections #IndianAmericans #Jenifer #MidtermElections2026 #NewYorkCity #Orkin #PrimariesAndCaucuses #Rajkumar #Socialism(TheoryAndPhilosophy) #StateLegislature #ZohranMamdani
How the Brothers Behind Manhattan’s Aicon Art Gallery Found Themselves in Infinite Feuds
Prajit said he was never jealous of his brother, who he believes is afflicted w…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artsanddesign #AiconGallery #art #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #AsianAmericans #Christie's #CollectorsandCollections #ContentType:PersonalProfile #Design #Entertainment #familybusiness #India #Salman(1983-) #SuitsandLitigation(Civil) #Toor
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/604571/
https://www.europesays.com/news/20201/ Trump Reposts Anti-Immigrant Tirade Calling China and India ‘Hellhole’ Places #AsianAmericans #BirthTourism #ChineseAmericans #CitizenshipAndNaturalization #Headlines #ImmigrationAndEmigration #IndianAmericans #News #Podcasts #RaceAndEthnicity #TopStories
https://www.europesays.com/ie/450404/ How the Brothers Behind Manhattan’s Aicon Art Gallery Found Themselves in Infinite Feuds #AiconGallery #art #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #AsianAmericans #Christie's #CollectorsAndCollections #ContentType:PersonalProfile #Design #Éire #Entertainment #FamilyBusiness #IE #India #Ireland #Salman(1983) #SuitsAndLitigation(Civil) #Toor
NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==
NOW PLAYING == Code Switch 4/18/26: Is the U.S. 'empire' beginning to show cracks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAXFv8YrDfY #news #arts #culture #history #education #NPR #storytelling #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #progressive #left #publicradio #asianamericans #pacificislanders #colonization #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist
https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116437394849331586
NOW PLAYING == Code Switch 4/18/26: Is the U.S. 'empire' beginning to show cracks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAXFv8YrDfY
#news #arts #culture #history #education #NPR #storytelling #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #progressive #left #publicradio #asianamericans #pacificislanders #colonization #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist
In the Birthright Citizenship Hearing, a Story of Asians Fighting for Rights
Making the Dancing Lions for Lunar New York Celebrations
Making the Dancing Lions for Lunar New York Celebrations
Stanford University: Newly digitized papers shed light on WWII internment. “Stanford University Libraries have digitized the Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, an ‘extraordinary collection’ of letters and photographs that expand the historical record of wartime incarceration in the United States.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/08/stanford-university-newly-digitized-papers-shed-light-on-wwii-internment/
Democrats push for commission investigating anti-LGBTQ+ military policies
https://www.europesays.com/ie/198274/ She ran her parents’ dry-cleaning business at 18. Today, the ‘godmother of AI’ is advising world leaders and running a billion-dollar startup #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #AsianAmericans #BigData #CollegesAndUniversities #ComputerScience #data #Éire #Entrepreneurs #IE #Ireland #StartUp #Technology #Unicorns #UnitedNations #women
https://www.europesays.com/2552078/ American man and son die after suffering stings from swarm of wasps ziplining in Laos #127248889 #animals #article #AsianAmericans #GeneralNews #health #Insects #News #science #Wasps #world #WorldNews #WorldTopics
Where Mamdani Found the Blueprints to Run for Mayor
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-howeowners.html
UC Berkeley: What counts as ‘Asian American literature,’ anyway?. “Long Le-Khac, an assistant professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkeley, just published a 1,900-entry dataset that he hopes will be used to investigate which works are discussed as ‘Asian American’ in scholarly circles — and who that leaves out.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/30/uc-berkeley-what-counts-as-asian-american-literature-anyway/
"From Castroville to the Silver Screen," The story of Jerry Fujikawa, Japanese American actor born in Monterey County & raised in Castroville. By Joe Livernois: https://montereyneighborsandfriends.substack.com/p/from-castroville-to-the-silver-screen?triedRedirect=true
#montereycounty #asianamericans
Meet the Filmmaker! Ramona S. Diaz is an award-winning Filipino American filmmaker and the director of our newest film And So It Begins.
She is best known for her compelling character-driven documentaries that combine a profound appreciation for cinematic aesthetics and potent storytelling. Diaz’s films have demonstrated her ability to gain intimate access to the people she films — be they rock stars, first ladies, dissidents, mothers, teachers, or journalists — resulting in keenly observed moments and unforgettable nuanced narratives. Her films have been screened and won awards at top-tier film festivals around the world. Diaz has been recognized by many as one of the most influential Asian American women working in film and television. 1/n
@film @education @asianamerican
#RomonaSDiaz #AsianAmericans #FilipinoAmericans #Filmmaking #IndieFilm #WomenInFilm
There are quite a few #AsianAmericans or #AsianCanadians in #Japan.
Sadly, but not entirely unexpectedly, they're, just like their brethren back home, actively disinterested in Asian migrant communities here (as compared to passive disinterest from most westerners).
Japan, as "cool" Asia, is acceptable to be into. The rest of Asia? Not so much.
"The Hood Half Marathon through the streets of historically Black Los Angeles taught me important lessons about fear, anxiety and fellowship."
#BlackMastodon #Latino #AsianAmericans #HalfMarathon #LosAngeles
https://capitalandmain.com/running-while-black-latino-or-asian-american-under-trump
Hawaii News Now: Following outcry, Army republishes web article on 442nd Regimental Combat Team. “The U.S. Army has republished an article detailing the history of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team on it’s website…. The 442nd, combined with the 100th Infantry Battalion, remains the most decorated combat unit in history for its size and length of service. The World War II unit was […]
“Anti-Asian online hate in US saw 'alarming surge' after election — report
January 2025 marked the highest number of online anti-Asian slurs by month since monitoring began in August 2022, the report says, with a total of 87,945 slurs.”
Link to article: https://www.trtworld.com/discrimination/anti-asian-online-hate-in-us-saw-alarming-surge-after-election-report-18267361
Link to report: https://stopaapihate.org/2025/02/20/post-election-surge-in-hate/
“The Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), announced the 2025 winners of its Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature today..."
https://www.apalaweb.org/2025-asian-pacific-american-awards-for-literature-winners/
Charles Yu is interviewed about adapting his novel “Interior Chinatown” to television.
https://caamedia.org/blog/2024/11/18/charles-yu-on-bringing-interior-chinatown-to-the-screen/
“Meanwhile, Trump won White women by a margin of 7%, or 2.8% of the electorate, while simultaneously nabbing a proportion of non-White Americans that represented 7.85% of the whole. They could’ve made up the White women-gap by simply offering every minority in the country free ice cream for a year!“
#Politics #Democrats #BlackAmericans #LatinxAmericans #AsianAmericans #BIPOC #USElection2024 #USPolitics #racism
Stop AAPI Hate has released its report on how AAPI people were affected by anti-Asian incidents in 2023 and how they are taking action against racism.
New survey finds nearly half of #AsianAmericans were victims of a #hate act in 2023
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/25/asian-american-hate-crimes-survey/75357467007/
Discover the stability and upward mobility of #AsianAmericans in the #middleclass over the past decade. Explore the changes #in income distribution and #economic progress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00MD_YjzA3Q&feature=youtu.be
"Asia in St. Louis" began as a community-based learning course from my colleague Prof. Ulug Kuzuoglu; it is now housed at #WashU libraries, and contains information, stories, and reflections on the role of #AsianAmericans in #StLouis
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/11d31dcbe2ad4780950817ec9db0cfcc?item=1
"For Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, the rate of uninsured dropped from 16.6% to 6.2%. And for American Indians and Alaska Natives, the rate dropped from 32.4% to 19.9%. More than 45 million people in total are enrolled in coverage under the Affordable Care Act."
#Biden #healthcare #AffordableCareAct #AsianAmericans #NativeAmericans
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