Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 1960s, Asian Americans started being portrayed as a U.S. “model minority” ― a group whose diligent work, personal ...

For years, Cayden Mak and the grassroots community groups he works with knew that attacks against vulnerable Asian seniors in Chinatowns across the country were a perennial problem. But he said the ...

Barely a month following the horrific mass shooting in Atlanta, I noticed accounts on my Twitter timeline roasting a certain op-ed. Featuring a black-and-white portrait of the Chinese-American author ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- When is being considered smart, hardworking and obedient not a compliment? For many Asian Americans, it's when it's the model minority myth. Khatharya Um became the first ...

Despite being labeled "The Model Minority," Asian Americans have not been featured prominently on mainstream TV. One exception is the CW’s "Kung Fu," which has actress Olivia Liang as its heroine lead ...

More than 100 years ago in St. Louis, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition introduced the X-ray, the car, the airplane and even an early version of a cellphone. It also featured what scholars have called ...

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announced that she will run in the 2024 presidential election. She is one of the few South Asian women to have ever run for president of the United States.

The term “model minority” has a specific history in the Asian American community, but I can’t think of a better embodiment of its concepts than Larry Elder, the Black Republican gubernatorial ...

Privilege-adjacent. Invisible at times. As an Asian American, that's how I typically used to think of my minority status. Society labels us the "model minority" when it is convenient. Sometimes we're ...

In July, my sister left for Manhattan to start her new job, and for the first time in my life, I could not cast away the uneasy feeling that something serious could happen to her. A rise in COVID-19 ...