This is the colored man’s burden. To always look up to a higher power. Not a god or a deity, but a man with desire.

When I was an exchange student in Hong Kong two years ago, I learned that in Asia, some people (usually the older generation) assume that to be “American” is to be white. In Hong Kong, I chatted with some elderly Chinese and told them I was an exchange student from the…

So I’ve been following the Kogi taco truck around for the past few weeks. On Twitter. Kogi is the brainchild of Mark Manguera, whose fusion of Korean BBQ and the ubiquitous taco truck has created a Los Angeles food sensation.  People keep talking about it – in class,…

This was the featured article in Pacific Ties’s The Dialogue Issue, Winter 2009. By Evelina Giang The journalism industry is hurting these days. The Los Angeles Times announced last month that it will be cutting 300 jobs, and many newspapers and magazines are following suit. With the recent…

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…

Being Asian has nothing to do with it. That’s the message that Kollaboration 9, a talent show that celebrates Asian American empowerment through the arts, wants to leave us. “I just want to be as good a musician I can possibly be, whether it’s an Asian American person…