SAADA's got a new look!: SAADA, the South Asian American Digital Archive, which document and provide access to the diverse and relatively unknown stories of South Asian Americans, recently revamped its website to make the archive more accessible, easier to navigate and more user-friendly.
To Avoid Or To Embrace? How Actors Navigate Stereotypes: National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation tackles how actors of color build careers without getting typecast.
Richard Parks on Donuts: From Oakland to Cambodia and back again, Richard Parks explores the "Khmerican" phenomena of donut shops.
Wokking the Suburbs: Hua Hsu on the rise of suburban Chinatowns.
Our Vietnamese Hearts: The Diaspora 38 Years Later: An essay from author and editor Andrew Lam reflecting on the Vietnamese diaspora 38 years after the fall of the south Vietnamese government to the Communist north.
Coming Out Across Cultural Barriers: A Mixed-Race Son's Journey With His Korean Immigrant Mother: For Mark Ro Beyersdorf coming out to his parents wasn't easy. His Korean mother took it particularly hard. He eventually joined the Dari Project, an organization that works to create acceptance and awareness of LGBTQ Korean Americans -- and has just realeased a bilingual anthology of LGBTQ Korean American stories.
Local Hero: Nobuko Miyamoto: Nobuko Miyamoto founded Great Leap in 1978 to fill the lack of creative productions that addressed Asian American culture in L.A. Great Leap has endured through the L.A. riots and 9/11, and has since evolved into a medium for harmonizing cultural relations through performing arts.
On The Road and Getting "Liked": Singer-songwriter Alfa Garcia takes some time from her college campus tour to talk about tours, social media, and building a fanbase.
Meet Vine's Most Creative Stop-Motion Animator: Shortly after Twitter launched Vine, its 6-second video sharing site, Khoa Phan started experimenting with stop-animation, making some pretty darn cool clips.
From the Civil War to Civil Rights: The Many Ways Asian Americans Have Shaped the Country: In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the Smithsonian is launching an exhibition called "I want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story" that begins with the pre-Columbian years and spans to today. A condensed set of the exhibition will be distributed to 10,000 schools nationwide.
Looking for role models in a world of stereotypes: Minnesota artists Wang Ping, Pao Her, Bao Phi, Linda Her, Randy Reyes, and Kurt Kwan have a round table discussion about role modles in a world of stereotypes.
How 'Gaysian' Filmmaker Quentin Lee Defies Hollywood Stereotypes: A profile of Filmmaker Quentin Lee, who has three movies you can catch throughout L.A. this month.