Randall Yip

2 weeks ago | asamnews.com | Randall Yip

By Randall Yip, Executive Editor Six years after being taken from his home in 2019 and hauled into jail by FBI agents, Feng Franklin Tao admits he sometimes dreads waking up in the mornings. “Because once I wake up, the difficulty, the challenging thing is the dark cloud over my status,” the former University of Kansas professor said in a candid interview with AsAmNews. The chemist and chemical engineer is currently in court fighting to win his job back.

2 weeks ago | asamnews.com | Randall Yip

By Randall Yip, Executive Editor Lost Hero of Dance: George Lee was a trailblazing Asian American dancer who performed with the New York City Ballet in 1954 and was later featured on Broadway, breaking racial barriers in dance during a time when dancers of color were rarely represented. A Life of Perseverance: Born to a Chinese acrobat father and Polish dancer mother in Hong Kong, Lee escaped to the United States after years of poverty and displacement.

2 weeks ago | asamnews.com | Randall Yip

(This story is done in partnership with the URL Collective)By Randall Yip, Executive EditorAsian American and immigration groups are reacting with caution to an announcement from the Trump administration that it is reversing its decision to revoked about 1,400 student visas and to change the immigration status of 4,700 more in a government data base known as SEVIS. The action caused a lot of uncertainty and fear among international students.

2 weeks ago | asamnews.com | Randall Yip

By Randall Yip, Executive Editor Racial bullying of a young child: A 5-year-old Chinese American boy was subjected to racial slurs by a White middle schooler in Loudoun County, VA, sparking outrageBroader issue of racial bullying among youth: Data from the American Psychological Association (2012) and Act to Change (2021) revealed an increase in racial bullying, with Asian American students experiencing higher rates of race-based bullying than other groups.

3 weeks ago | asamnews.com | Randall Yip

By Randall Yip, Executive Editor A New Jersey-based group calling itself Asian American Coalition for Education this week filed a civil rights complaint against Yale. The group is asking the Department of Education to investigate whether Yale discriminated against Asian applicants during the 2023-2024 application cycle following the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard/UNC Supreme Court ruling.