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Nusrat Choudhury, a civil rights lawyer, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as a federal judge in New York, making her the first female Muslim American and first Bangladeshi American to hold that distinction in U.S. history.Judge Choudhury, mostly recently the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, was confirmed by a vote of 50-49, with every Democrat but one supporting her.

New Relic is proud to recognize and celebrate the contributions Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities have made to society during AAPI Heritage Month.The history of AAPI Heritage Month
AAPI Heritage Month dates back to 1978 when the United States congress acknowledged the historical contributions of these communities.

In 2020, three separate groups of drinks entrepreneurs realized there was a hole in the flavored malt beverage (FMB) space.It resulted in Lunar, Drunk Fruit and Nectar, a trio of different hard seltzer brands that incorporate Asian flavors, such as yuzu, lychee and more.The founders' motivations were personal, but the business' launches were auspiciously timed with increasing consumer interest in Asian flavors.

After years of printing comics at Kinko's and selling them at conventions and local shops, Gene Luen Yang didn't expect his 2006 graphic novel American Born Chinese to get the attention it did.Blending the coming-of-age journey of Jin Wang, the son of ChineseAmerican immigrants, with the adventures of characters from the Chinese epic Journey to the West, the best-selling book was a National Book Award finalist and won the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.

Democratic lawmakers have released a second draft of the 20-district map for Chicago's impending elected school board, after the first map was criticized for failing to maintain neighborhood cohesion and over-representing white voters.For decades, Chicago's Board of Education has consisted of seven members all appointed by the mayor, unlike most school systems whose boards are chosen by voters.

In 2018, while my wife was suffering from stage IV stomach cancer, I swallowed half a bottle of sleeping pills.I have hesitated to tell this story, not for fear of any public record, but for fear of my kids knowing that while their mother was dying, I wanted to die.I write it here only because I want to write about wanting to live.

Three of the seven members on the county's board of education are South Asian -making history for the most representation on the county's powerful education board.The Santa Clara County Board of Education swore in its first Pakistani American members, Maimona Afzal Berta and Raeena Lari, this month.

Jing Gao, the founder of the Fly By Jing brand of Sichuan condiments, is opening a grab-and-go marketthis July in Larchmont Village (144 N. Larchmont Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90004)." Suá Kitchen and Superette is an all-day, grab-and-go marketplace offering pre-packaged meals," Jing tells Eater in a statement.

WASHINGTON (AP) Fictional soccer coach Ted Lasso used a White House visit Monday to encourage people, even in politically divided Washington, to make it a point to check in often with friends, family and co-workers to ask how they're doing, and listen, sincerely, Comedian Jason Sudeikis, who plays the title character an American coaching a soccer team in London and other cast members were meeting with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden to talk about how mental health contributes to overall well-being.

A month into dating, Paul stood on a treehouse platform and declared, You are my penultimate girlfriend!I asked, What does that mean to you?You are my super, ultimate girlfriend, he responded, holding his arms out to the sky.A former Hollywood producer, Paul had a flair for grand gestures.On paper, we were perfect: two middle-aged Asian Americans who loved art and travel.

CNN gifted Trump over an hour to tell lies to the American public on Wednesday night.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R) speaks to members of the press during a break of a hearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee at Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on February 8, 2023 in Washington, D.C.Alex Wong / Getty Images Following a CNN town hall with Donald Trump on Wednesday night during which the former president peddled dangerous lies on nationally-broadcasted TV for over an hour, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) condemned the network for giving a platform to Trump at all, calling the debacle a "profoundly irresponsible" move from one of the largest news networks in the U.S.
Ocasio-Cortez denounced CNN and Trump in an appearance on MSNBC after the town hall ended, emphasizing the danger that the network's decision poses to victims of sexual abuse like E. Jean Carroll and to the country itself.

State charges including attempted murder have been dismissed against a woman accused of stabbing an Indiana University student of Chinese descent on a public bus, court records show.Billie R. Davis, 56, of Bloomington, who is white, still faces a federal hate crime charge in the stabbing of the 18-year-old woman with a folding knife on Jan. 11.

I believe in the power of local news.Strengthening American democracy depends on more engaged and informed citizens at the local level.But in today's fractured media environment, there are fewer credible options for consumers to turn to for their news.Local broadcast news can help fill this void.My company, Standard General, is acquiring broadcaster Tegna because I want to build a new company that will be a leader in preserving and enhancing community news, investing in newsrooms and programming targeted to local audiences, and adapting in a rapidly changing technical and competitive environment.

Sunday marks the annual Day of Remembrance for Japanese Americans nationwide.The remembrance and associated events commemorate President Franklin Roosevelt's Feb. 19, 1942, signing of Executive Order 9066, under whose authority the Army forcibly removed 120,000 Japanese American men, women and children from the West Coast and confined them in 10 incarceration camps in the interior.

Covid was the fourth leading cause of death in the United States last year, dropping from its place as the third leading cause in 2020 and 2021, when virus fatalities were superseded only by heart disease and cancer, the National Center for Health Statistics reported on Thursday.Unintentional injuries a category that includes drug overdoses and car accidents were responsible for more deaths than Covid last year and were the nation's third leading cause of death.

The politically craven assaults on diversity, equity and inclusion on college campuses in Florida and Texas are embarrassing.Unless you're an opportunist looking for a leg up in a possible run for governor.Then, the attacks are inspiring.Case in point: Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is now demanding information on what the state's public universities are spending on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, including staffing, the names and aims of the programs.

Politics News that Julie Su was nominated to be the next Labor Secretary brought cheers from unions and Democratic lawmakers, especially Asian Americans.But that doesn't mean she'll have an easy confirmation.Copyright 2023 NPR.All rights reserved.Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.

Welcome to Pass the Aux, where KQED Arts & Culture brings you our favorite new tracks by Bay Area artists.Check out past entries and submit a song for future coverage.Of all the music genres associated with the Bay Area, Japanese "city pop" might not be one that comes to mind for most.

A Santa Clara County program designed to mitigate healthcare obstacles for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities is now backed with $1 million in federal funding.County officials announced Dec. 16 that the Asian/Pacific Islander Community Health Worker pilot program will work with local nonprofits and hire health workers to care for seven specific Asian communities in the county.

Health While the state tracks wastewater data from a number of communities, Boston officials are hoping to get more specific data.Amid a surge in wastewater levels of COVID-19, Boston officials are ramping up their efforts to track the virus throughout the city.Boston is planning to establish 11 new wastewater testing stations, Bisola Ojikutu, the city's public health commissioner, said on Monday, The Boston Globe reported.

As the children ran around the Playa Vista park on Sunday morning, their satiny red qipaos, or traditional Chinese dresses, signaled that this was no ordinary day.They are members of a chorus that was scheduled to sing at the Monterey Park Lunar New Year Festival.But because of the mass shooting at a Monterey Park ballroom dance studio the night before, which killed 10 people and injured 10 others, the nearby festival was canceled.

A 20-year-old man was killed on Monday after his clothes caught in a New York City subway car, which dragged him onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train, police said, the latest grim episode in the nation's largest transit system.The victim's harrowing death comes just three days after David Martin, 32, was shoved in front of a train on Friday, seemingly at random, suffering a broken collar bone.

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to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts.Last weekend, a man shot and killed eleven people at a ballroom-dance studio in Monterey Park, California, an Asian enclave outside of Los Angeles.Then, less than forty-eight hours later, in Half Moon Bay, California, another man shot and killed seven Chinese farmworkers.

The whole point of writing about theatre is to make a production come alive in front of the reader's eyes: description is the critical ballgame.So I'm a little frightened to admit that, even though I've seen the superb "Catch as Catch Can" twice-first in 2018, when it played at the New Ohio, and now again at Playwrights Horizons-I still find a crucial part of it indescribable.

This past weekend, "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), and Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis).

Petitioning for this year's City Council elections, set to start next week, could now be delayed due to a lawsuit filed on Friday by a legal defense group on behalf of Asian American communities in south Queens that seek to alter the new council maps adopted during last year's redistricting.The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) brought the suit against the city Districting Commission - a 15-member body that drew and approved the new lines last year - and the city and state Boards of Election (BOE), according to a release the AALDEF shared.

Betty Lee Sung, an American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who was taken back to China by her parents during the Depression, escaped the invading Japanese as a teenager and then made her way back to the United States, where she pioneered research into the Asian diaspora, died on Thursday at her home in Silver Spring, Md.

Schools The affirmative action lawsuit against Harvard seemed to confirm advice given for years to Asian Americans: Don't play chess, don't check the box declaring race.When it came time to fill out his college application form, Max Li chose not to declare his race.Even though he knew his last name sounded Chinese, he selected "prefer not to say."

The second-graders rushed from room to room at the Chinese American Museum, making buttons, collecting stickers and seeking clues to trivia questions about a long-ago acting legend, Anna May Wong.Everyone who finished the scavenger hunt would get a prize - a freshly minted quarter bearing an image of Wong, who recently became the first Asian American woman to grace U.S. currency.

A Cambridge man accused of randomly attacking two Asian American women in April will appear in court next week for a pre-trial hearing, according to Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden's office.Alexandr Ivanenko, 53, is facing charges of assault and battery on a person over 60 causing injury, assault and battery, two counts of assault and battery to intimidate, and two counts of a civil rights violation with injury.

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McDonald's has teamed with digital content creator Karen X Cheng to launch an interactive campaign around Lunar New Year, according to a press release.Central to the campaign, created by IW Group, is a 30-second ad spot that is one of the first to incorporate neural radiance fields (NeRF) technology which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create a 3D scene.

Although broadcasters have been busy testing alternate currencies since Nielsen lost its accreditation for local and national ratings in 2021, Nielsen was still center stage during the 2022 upfronts."Right now, we're just talking," Andrea Zapata, EVP of ad sales, research and measurement insights at Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), told AdExchanger at CES in Las Vegas last week.

Dodgers great Vin Scully, musicians Jerry Lee Lewis and Loretta Lynn, and actors James Caan and Angela Lansbury are among the notable deaths of 2022.Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis, whose fiery records and scandals made him both fascinating and fearsome, died at 87.The Louisiana-born piano player who called himself the "Killer" is considered one of the key founders of rock.

We all know the stereotypes about Asian parents.In Hollywood, they're often portrayed as people who push their children to study specific fields like medicine and law while ignoring their kids' dreams and failing to support them emotionally.Well, I recently stumbled on a Reddit post where u/nlwwie focused on the opposite and asked Asian Americans which parenting styles and traditions they actually want to pass down to their own kids.

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Stanford University is siding with Harvard in a Supreme Court case challenging the Ivy League school's use of race as a factor in admissions - a practice that critics say discriminates against Asian Americans.In a brief filed with the high court, Stanford said that it and other "highly selective" universities use race as "one factor among many" in selecting students from large pools of qualified applicants.