Significant Dates in Asian and Chinese American History

Chinese American Heroes presents this series of significant dates in Asian American and Chinese American history in celebration of the start of 2012. This is by no means a comprehensive list of events due to our limited time and resources for research. For the same...

Hoekstra Super Bowl ad a slippery slope towards Asian-bashing?

Hoekstra Super Bowl commercial "really, really dumb": Republican Senate hopeful Pete Hoekstra aired a Super Bowl commercial that remind some of Michigan's Asian-bashing history.

The Year of the Dragon is also the Year of the Baby

Many Asian American families are preparing to grow in the Year of the Dragon, which according to centuries-old tradition is a particularly promising year to have a child. Taiko and Gemma Chen may not celebrate all 15 days of the lunar new year, nor do they believe they are sweeping away prosperity by cleaning the house. But there is one centuries-old tradition the Asian American couple still ...

Hoekstra Super Bowl ad a slippery slope toward Asian-bashing?

Hoekstra Super Bowl commercial "really, really dumb": Republican Senate hopeful Pete Hoekstra aired a Super Bowl commercial that remind some of Michigan's Asian-bashing history.

Christie Nominees to Supreme Court Include First Asian-American Justice

New Jersey (STONJ1) Governor Chris Christie said he wants to put the first-ever Asian-American and an openly gay justice on the state’s Supreme Court , after denying tenure for the bench’s only black member.