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The umbrella term “Asian American” is provoking debate once more as advocates and scholars discuss the health and income disparities it buries among subgroups such as Hmong Americans and other Southeast Asians, NBC News’ Sakshi Venkatraman reports.
- Catch up: For years, efforts to disaggregate Asian American and Pacific Islander data have been slowed by community infighting, government bureaucracy, and bitter conflicts over identity, write Andrew Peng, Javan Santos, and Mary Yang in a deep dive for The Yappie.
The Pentagon is considering keeping the Red Hill infrastructure in the ground instead of removing it following a water contamination crisis that led the Navy to shut down the facility, reports Sophie Cocke of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. It could go against the demands of many Native Hawaiians who have called for the site’s closure and clean-up.
The Los Angeles Times is dropping use of the word “internment” to describe the wrongful incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
- Times employees and Asian American journalists have long pressed for the change in language—with the late Henry Fuhrmann, a former Times assistant managing editor, leading the charge, reports the Times’ Teresa Watanabe.
- Don’t forget: In 2017, the Times issued a formal apology for championing then-President Franklin Roosevelt’s executive order to imprison Japanese Americans.
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A lack in housing and staffing is hindering efforts to address homelessness in Hawai‘i, where Native Hawaiians are vastly overrepresented among the unsheltered, the Honolulu Civil Beat’s Jessica Terrell notes.
Sustained health disparities among Marshallese people in Arkansas have prompted renewed investment in community health workers, Arielle Dreher reports for The Spokesman-Review.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” and its awards sweep at the Oscars showcased the kind of authentic storytelling that happens when Asians are both in front of and behind the camera. Yet the film’s historic wins also reiterate the limitations of Hollywood, Regina Kim writes for Pop Off.
The long read: KQED’s Adesh Thapliyal explores the origins of the first Asian American rock album, as produced by a group of Filipinos in San Francisco.
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