Filipino veterans, forgotten heroes of WWII
June 2, 2012 – 7:40 PM | No Comment

World War II conjures many words and places to mind: Pearl Harbor, Manzanar, the beach of Normandy, Hiroshima, perhaps even the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the all-Japanese American team that emerged from the war as …

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A Day Without an Educated Student of Color Rally: Photos
November 1, 2012 – 1:22 PM | No Comment

On Monday, October 29th, students gathered in front of Kerckhoff Hall for the “A Day Without an Educated Student of Color” rally to protest a study by UCLA law professor Richard Sander. Sander’s study suggests …

Passage of DREAM Act would add $329 billion to economy
October 8, 2012 – 2:36 PM | One Comment

The Center for American Progress released a report on October 1st that found that passage of the DREAM Act would add $329 billion and 1.4 million jobs to the U.S. economy over the next …

Asian American Lesbian and Gay Pioneers in Los Angeles
October 3, 2012 – 1:08 AM | No Comment

It began with faded photos of protest marches, people holding signs that said “Asian and Gay,” and ended with a pomegranate held up to the light. This is the story of API Equality LA’s event, …

Pilgrimage to Manzanar
July 1, 2012 – 1:59 PM | No Comment

Written by Elaine Lieu
The Pearl Harbor Attack was really what Roosevelt made it out to be: “a date which will live in infamy.” Immediately after the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that serious …

Khmerican.com: A New platform on bring awareness to the Khmer Rouge
June 5, 2012 – 10:22 AM | No Comment

Born after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Phatry Derek Pan, decided to create an online blog to commemorate the Cambodian genocide and bring awareness to the Cambodian American community.  Pan hopes that current and future …

SF Chinatown Life
May 21, 2012 – 5:33 PM | No Comment

San Francisco is a world-class city that never sleeps and Chinatown is a small but lively segment of the Bay Area metropolis. On the way to Chinatown, people pass through an area called the Tenderloin, …

Vietnamese Americans and Cambodian Americans sue BP over Oil Spill
May 4, 2012 – 10:37 AM | No Comment

In an email sent to contractors in the Gulf Oil Spill, BP specifically told them not to hire vessels owned by Vietnamese Americans and Cambodian Americans in the oil spill clean-up. Despite the fact that …

Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik is coming to UCLA!
May 1, 2012 – 10:23 AM | No Comment

The Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik at UCLA!
The Regents Scholar Society Presents
MAYIM BIALIK: UCLA alumna, actress, and author.
May 2nd, 7:30pm, Rolfe 1200
In addition to starring and garnering laughs on “The Big Bang Theory” as neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler, …