Korean Culture Night is one of my favorite Culture Nights at UCLA. It is well scripted and performed and FREE for UCLA students! Mark your calendars! Courtesy of the event’s Facebook page: Hanoolim at UCLA proudly presents to you – Beloved Upon a Time: a Korean Culture Night 2009 original musical production. A play integrated…
My first year at UCLA, I took a year long, 30 week course on Interracial Dynamics in America. What I got out of it is the obvious reality that race sill matters, even thought many people would rather think it shouldn’t (hello? prop. 209?) But in order to move towards a society where skin color…
For those of us in the LA area, the Japanese American National Museum holds historical tours of Little Tokyo at the end of each month. This month’s tour is on Saturday, February 28 at 10:15 am. The website’s description of the tour: Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. $8…
Mighty Mic’s first educational event, VOICES FROM BURMA is coming up soon, on Wednesday, February 18 6-8PM in Northwest Auditorium. The show is FREE, but we gladly accept donations of any amount. All proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders and U.S. Campaign for Burma. VOICES FROM BURMA is a dramatic show featuring monologues written by…
We featured Don Nakanisi, director of the Asian American Studies Center last quarter in our feature story: Activism Through Education. Nakanishi has a great interview in an AP story on Salon.com titled: Asian-American Political Profile Rising in the U.S. “Many people of Asian descent have stepped beyond their national identities to develop a pan-Asian perspective,…
According to a report by The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, on a national level, 46.3 percent of 11,430 offenses that occurred within the single-bias incidents were motivated by racial bias in 2001. -NewAmericanMedia.org According to recent reports, hate crime has been decreasing, but hate crimes towards AAPIs have been on the rise. That’s why…