Wendy Lau
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Wendy Ying Lau is a staff writer at The Yappie. You can reach her at [email protected]
What the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling means for Asian America
The decision deals a blow to Asian Americans’ decades of fighting for and building on affirmative action policies.
July 1, 2023
AAPIs face knowledge gap with abortion pills, study reveals
A little over a third of survey respondents said they had not heard of—or did not know if they had heard of—medication abortion.
June 5, 2023
Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders weave homelands and climate issues into their art
NHPIs suffer climate degradation and cultural deterioration rooted in colonialism. The impact of that history is now central to their art.
May 8, 2023
Lawmakers renew push to designate April 14 as National Sikh Day
Sikhism is the fifth largest religion in the world, and roughly 500,000 Sikh people live in the U.S. today.
April 18, 2023
Two years after the Atlanta spa shootings, fear of anti-Asian discrimination still looms
As the world re-opens, advocates are escalating calls on officials to strengthen holistic responses to violence targeting Asian Americans.
March 21, 2023
Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination after historic council vote
Over 150,000 South Asians live in the state of Washington, where Dalit activists say many people face unregulated caste-based discrimination.
March 6, 2023
Across the nation, a growing number of colleges weigh bans on caste discrimination
Brown University and a handful of other schools in the U.S. are moving to explicitly add caste to their non-discrimination policies.
December 12, 2022
San Francisco supervisors greenlight plan to establish Pacific Islander cultural district
The creation of the nation's first Pacific Islander cultural district is part of a citywide effort to preserve and promote historically marginalized communities, officials say.
November 22, 2022
Republican Dean Tran loses bid to become Massachusetts’ first Asian American Congress member
The former state senator failed to overtake Democratic Rep. Lori Trahan in a race mired by his gun theft indictment.
November 9, 2022
Where affirmative action stands in Asian America
With the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in cases against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the politically explosive debate over race-conscious admissions processes is reaching a fever pitch.
November 7, 2022