As the shrill bell rang, I excitedly opened my lunchbox, hungry and eager to see what delights my mom had packed me today. My face lit up to the sweet aroma of rousong bread, my favorite Taiwanese delicacy. My peers, however, were eyeing my food suspiciously. “Ew,...
Before George Floyd turned into a hashtag, he was somebody’s father. “I want to touch the world,” Jonathan Veal recalls Floyd saying. In Floyd’s youth, he received an athletic scholarship and is remembered for his sense of humor, compassion and tall physique. After...
March has been designated as Women’s History Month since 1987, meant to celebrate remarkable female figures in history and to recognize the gender for its many historical contributions to the nation. Even in the COVID-19 pandemic, this tradition continued for 2021. ...
Vichar Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thai immigrant, was horrifically attacked in San Francisco and died of his injuries. A Filipino American, Noel Quintana, was slashed in the face with a box cutter by a random man on the train in Brooklyn, New York. These incidents...
What is common decency? Well truth be told, the idea of common decency is rather simple. Common decency can be defined as casual, and everyday respect towards friends, peers, and basically anyone you may have interaction with throughout the day. This could even mean...
“Use Your Privilege” to speak up about Black Lives Matter. “Use Your Privilege” to speak up about LGBTQ issues. “Use Your Privilege” to speak up about sexism. It seems as if everyone is getting told that they have to speak up about human rights issues, that they have...
We left on a whim. “A new job,” my father repeated. I had never been to America, or whatever they called it. “Global superpower, land of the free,”— all big phrases that I didn’t understand. The one that struck me the most, however, was “melting pot.” I’d like that —...
We have all heard variations of microaggressions — racist, homophobic or offensive comments made casually, such as “You're too pretty to be gay," or “You can’t wear that, you're too fat,” or “all [insert racial group here] people look the same.” Whether it's...
As civil rights protestors continue to seek accountability for historically race-driven issues, minorities have risen up in solidarity with the Black community. Of the four police officers involved in the murder of George Floyd, one was Hmong police officer Tou Thao....
As coronavirus cases in the U.S. continue to increase, Asian Americans have become a scapegoat during this pandemic. This misplaced blame on Asian people only escalated as lockdown measures around the nation were put into place, with this blame even turning into...
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