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Of the electorate in 2022, catherine cortez masto held on by less than one point. she probably wouldnt be a senator today. actively courted aapi voters in unprecedented ways by cutting ads in different languages. , so you start to see how the parties candidates and the committees have taken note of the power of the voters. >> lets talk about some of the problems that are specific to the aapi community. i had a chance to speak to the voters as well. its interesting, for example, the spanish langu...

Together? how do we bring civility black to the political discourse? we used to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. which is what my father and mother taught. now we are at an all-time high. we must ultimately -- my dad would say -- learn how to live together as brothers. or we might perish as fools. while one does not want to see that, it is up to us to come together. and thats why we have such a broad coalition from labor, from the african american community. from the jewish commun...

The state of New York is funding Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations with a record $30 million to support critical services, including efforts to combat anti-Asian hate crimes. It aims to provide critical services to AAPI communities, including crisis intervention and community-based programs to stop anti-Asian attacks. Why this matters: New York has the largest AAPI community in the country.

Missouri journalist Michelle Li and her nonprofit, the Very Asian Foundation, were awarded the Asian American Journalists Association’s (AAJA) AAPI Community Impact Award over the weekend. Background information: Li, an anchor at NBC affiliate KSDK in St. Louis, made headlines last year after receiving a scathing voicemail from a viewer who complained that she was being “very Asian.”

Because john roberts says, thats not just part of your job, is again insulting. black kids across the country got other things they want to talk about in their college essays other than explaining to admissions counselors of racism works in their life. >> elie, we have to talk about ed bloom, who helped bring this lawsuit by students for fair admissions. he is a white guy, for people who do not know this. why is it so important for ed bloom to get a group of aapi students to serve as the plainti...

Community. were talking about relatability of trying to fit in, im trying to assimilate, im going to a community where i am different, but i find maybe who i think is another kind of soul mate. >> yeah, exactly. its a movie. we are all friends, the three of us are all friends, its a movie about friendship at the end of the day. it is a movie that we got to make as friends. and honestly, everyone has a friend who is like the responsible one. the one who you are like, okay, we audrey. you have irr...

And i wanted to talk to you about how you feel hollywood has really made that progressive move towards realizing that there is an incredible amount of talent in the api community not only in front of the camera behind the camera. >> you know i think for us, first of all, somebody else has told our story, and we are writers. we are not used to being in front of the camera. you put the camera on us and we are like oh god, we have hands, we are not professionals like that. but i think it was import...

Ride. so cherry, why make it so outrageous and out there? >> well for better or for worse, this is just our sensibility. we are discussing and this was just the comedy that came out of us. this was a tone at no point did we ever consider making this anywhere near pg-13. it was going to be our rated all the way because thats just the stuff that our brands think of when we are writing. >> i mean go get it and go home. >> yeah, we want to make a movie that we want to see as kids, or maybe not kids,...

Is all about. that is what lyndon johnson was saying back in 1965 when he passed the elementary secondary education act. medicaid, medicare, the harvard education act. 65. all of these were things that were put in place to correct those inequities of the past and for us to -- those of us who have benefited from affirmative action, like me, or forced to snap the lateral. others, it is just not fair. >> representative chu, one of the cases argue that asian american students are harmed by affirmati...

With the SCOTUS decision to gut affirmative action, marginalized AAPI students will struggle even more educationally than they do already.