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The need for a counter-narrative on anti-Asian racism
It’s no secret that the uptick in expressions of anti-Asian racism in the United States, including verbal and physical assaults, is having a deleterious effect on the recruitment of international students in key Asian sending countries, the source of 70% of all international students in the US.
The most egregious cases have received extensive coverage in the Vietnamese print, electronic and social media. A number of parents whose children had been accepted to US high schools, for example, have changed their minds out of fear for the personal safety of their sons and daughters.
Gwen Stefani s New Slow Clap Video Prompts More Charges of Cultural Appropriation
On 4/9/21 at 3:43 PM EDT
Gwen Stefani is facing new allegations of cultural appropriation following the release of her new music video. The clip is for the new version of her song Slow Clap, which features rapper Saweetie, but the imagery it contains rather than the music quickly became a narrative after its Friday morning release.
Gwen Stefani and fiancé Blake Shelton arrive at the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California. Some people have pointed out that Stefani has a long history of appropriation allegations.
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Race, sovereignty clash as Congress meddles in tribal enrollment
Members of Congress are threatening to hold up housing funds for tribes. To the chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, itâs infringing on tribal sovereignty. For those seeking citizenship, itâs a chance to change a âsystem of hidden anti-Black racism.â
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Mar 7, 2021
Sam and Sallie Walton were the great-grandparents of Angela Walton-Raji. Walton-Raji says she has memories of her great-grandmother, who was born into slavery but whose father was a Choctaw citizen. (Photo courtesy of Angela Walton-Raji, Underscore)
Members of Congress are threatening to hold up housing funds for tribes. To the chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, itâs infringing on tribal sovereignty. For those seeking citizenship, itâs a chance to change a âsystem of hidden anti-Black racism.â