AsAmNews: Selective colleges see mixed impact on Asian American enrollment
By Randall Asian American enrollment has risen at Harvard, but according to several reports, it’s not certain if that indicates a trend. Enrollment this fall increased to 41%, a jump from 37% in both 2024 and 2023, the year of the Supreme Court decision overturning...
Fordham Law News: Screening of Broadway Hit “Yellow Face” Sparks Discussion on Asian American Representation
Francis Jue attends opening night for ‘Yellow Face’ by Roundabout Theatre Company in New York on October 1, 2024. By Sejla Rizvic Fordham Law’s Center on Asian Americans and the Law put a spotlight on the historic representation of Asian Americans in the...
Cornell Daily Sun: Professor, Author Sandhya Shukla ’88 Discusses ‘Cross-Culturalism’ in Harlem, New York
Cornell University Goldwin Smith Hall By Jonathan McCormack Sandhya Shukla ’88, a professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia, presented her ideas of “Cross-Culturalism” on Thursday afternoon in Goldwin Smith Hall. In the talk, she examined...
The Student Life: ‘Come for the egg rolls but stay for the talk on racism’: Sharing Asian American stories with Curtis Chin
By Ananya Vinay “As people of color, our stories are not told fully all the time, so we are oftentimes seen as the perpetrator of crime,” writer and filmmaker Curtis Chin said. “We don’t get the automatic privilege of compassion.” On Oct. 16, Scripps Presents...
NYC Early Voting and What the Heck are these Ballot Proposals?
Early Voting NY Election: October 25, 2025 – November, 2, 2025 Election Day: November 4, 2025 Find your NYC early voting or Election Day poll site and Sample Ballot https://findmypollsite.vote.nyc/ 6 Ballot Proposals There Are 6 Ballot Measures in New York City....
Vulture: EJAE’s Glad Her KPop Demon Hunters Fame Came in Her 30s
By Jennifer Zhan Last week, EJAE was posing on the carpet for the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles. The week before, after surviving bouts of bronchitis, then COVID, then a cold, she’d performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in New York, alongside Audrey...
Playbill: Ang Lee and Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet Films to Become an Opera
By Natan Zamansky Seattle Opera has announced the world premiere of The Wedding Banquet, a comic opera inspired by the 1993 Ang Lee film of the same name and the 2025 remake from Andrew Ahn (which starred Bowen Yang and Kelly Marie Tran). The opera is composed by...
QNS: Queens College hosts NYS Poet Laureate Kimiko Hahn for poetry reading event
Kimiko Hahn, poet, at AWP in Los Angeles, CA in March 2025 By Renee DeLorenzo Queens College hosted a poetry reading by Kimiko Hahn, a distinguished professor at the Flushing-based college who was recently appointed by the New York State Writers Institute to serve as...
International Examiner: Celebrating Filipino American History Month: From quotas to communities
New York, circa 1966. Photo courtesy of the Tamayo Prado family By Maria Batayola Headquartered in Seattle, the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) commemorates the 90th Anniversary of the 1935 Filipino Repatriation Act and the 60th Anniversary of...