By Jennie L. Ilustre Congresswoman Judy Chu (D, CA), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), has joined forces with other leaders to fight for family reunification in the comprehensive immigration reform bill. “There is absolutely no reason why we can’t have both family-based and work-based visa programs at the same time,” she said at the CAPAC ceremony …
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By Lily Qi When NBC4 morning news anchor Aaron Gilchrist commented at the end of a news story recently that black men who don’t want to be cast in stereotypical roles are sometimes considered “not black enough,” I was taken aback by his openness in discussing a highly sensitive topic during morning news hours. After all, race is not something …
Read More »Historic Presidential Trip to Burma
By Kaye Lin US President, Barack Obama visited Burma during his Southeast Asian trip, and met with Burmese President Thein Sein as well as Nobel laureate and opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. As he boarded on this trip with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, Obama makes history as a new relationship embarks between the United States and this …
Read More »Asian Americans Vote in Area, Visiting Asians Observe Portraits of Citizenship
By Michelle Phipps-Evans This year’s general election on Nov. 6 will likely be remembered for its long lines. It may also be remembered as the first presidential election where national political journalists began focusing on the role Asian Americans played, and are expected to play in the future. It’s all in the numbers, with 17 million Asian Americans in the …
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