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By Jenny Chen It comes with the territory. As an Asian American female, I have constantly been reminded about my eyes. They’re too small, they’re too slanty, my eyelashes are nonexistent. In my Midwestern elementary school, classmates would ask me, “How can you see through those eyes?” I imagined my eyes to be akin to some kind of Voldermort-like slits. …

        Anyone living in the DC metropolitan area knows to avoid Northern Virginia traffic like poison ivy. On November 17, 2012, in an effort to ease traffic, the the Virginia Department of Transportation unveiled for the 495 HotLanes, which stretch from McLean to Springfield, Virginia. The Hot Lanes was a result of an unprecedented public-private partnership between …

By Suchi Rudra Strolling with her parents down the boardwalk in Atlantic City, 10-year-old Mary Kong-DeVito experienced her first love—food love, that is. After swallowing the first raw oyster of her life, Mary begged her father to order more, and eventually gulped down 2 or 3 dozen that afternoon. “I think something clicked that day. All I’d ever eaten before …

By Yi Chen Washington, DC – Chinese American philosopher and social activist Grace Lee Boggs is the subject of Korean American filmmaker Grace Lee’s latest documentary “American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs.” The documentary won the Audience Award at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival and premiered at the AFI Docs in Silver Spring for its east coast …