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Opinion · Pop Culture · TV
Sounds like Roseanne Barr missed Starbucks’ racial bias training. After Roseanne Barr sent out that racist tweet last week, things escalated quickly and she had to issue a public apology[…]
I was 11 years old when I completed what my family describes as the “thread ceremony.” It took place in our ancestral village in West Bengal. Alongside my cousin who[…]
Movies · Opinion · Pop Culture
“The way to win the bee is simply 90 percent hard work, 10 percent other.” That recipe for spelling bee success is from Akash Vukoti, who at age 6 was[…]
Life · Movies · Opinion · Politics · Pop Culture
I sometimes wish I could go back in time and be my own guardian angel. I would reach down into that dark place of the Model Minority Myth and pull[…]
It’s been a long two years for Carimer Noelia Andujar, an engineering student at Rutgers University and undocumented activist. “Sometimes, I feel completely exhausted and I’m doing everything I can[…]
If you prayed more often, this wouldn’t happen. When I repeated my parents’ comments to my therapist, she asked me why they were not being supportive. I had no answer[…]
Movies · Opinion · Pop Culture · TV
Viewers of last night’s episode of The Simpsons noticed that the show’s writers responded to critics of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, including one critic who made a film about Apu. Comedian Hari Kondabolu’s[…]
As South Asian American millennials with deep interests in politics, social justice, and activism, we have spent the past year racking our brains as to why our community lacks a[…]
SF BART is once again, giving a platform to white supremacists. An organization that calls itself Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR), has placed posters at various BART stations, aimed at[…]
Opinion · Pop Culture · TV
I’ll never forget that warm August day in 2008 — I had just moved into my first apartment, and my new neighbors had invited me and my roommates over for[…]
