San Francisco's Asian Law Caucus is playing a key role in the fight to preserve birthright citizenship in the U.S.

Asian American activists say the murder of 27-year-old Vincent Chin – a Chinese American engineer in Detroit was a watershed moment.

The first civil rights movement sought to end discrimination. The second means the fight isn’t over.

The legacy of the Stop Asian Hate movement is reverberating loudly in San Francisco politics on Election Day. Asian American politicos and activists say they see echoes of the movement in the ...

Native Americans still face the type of discrimination that motivated the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and we still see a failure to uphold our treaty rights under U.S. law.

After decades in the shadows, Asian American studies has expanded on college campuses.

E. Tammy Kim writes about “Corky Lee’s Asian America,” which collects hundreds of pictures that the photographer shot in New York’s Chinatown from the early nineteen-seventies to the end ...

May marks Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Asian-Americans should reclaim the word “Yellow.” After all, we are a people of color who belong as members of this nation. We ...

Large civil rights organizations were preoccupied with the broader fight for gender and racial equality, and even other Asian American groups were reluctant to support reparations.

Amid the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, another narrative about Asian Americans became widespread: being characterized as a “model” minority. In 1966, two articles were published in The New York ...