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Saturday marks the start of Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM). The APAHM was first created in 1977 when Reps. Frank Horton (R-NY) and Norman Mineta (D-CA) proposed establishing the first 10 days of May as Asian-Pacific Heritage Week. It was later expanded onto a whole month in 1990 when former President George H.W. Bush signed a bill expanding the celebration. May was chosen for two reasons. First, because according to U.S. records, the first immigrant from Japan arrived on May 7, 1843. Second, because on May 10, 1869, the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. was comple...

Asian Americans deserve recognition in educational curriculums By Abigail Lamoreaux | Special to the Daily Cal Last Updated 24 hours Ago It’s no secret that U.S. education seeks to gloss over its racist, anti-Asian history. Worse, although many of us feel as though we are familiar with its horrors, we are not. Maybe we think we understand the plight of Chinese workers who in the 1860s built the transcontinental railroad. Or maybe we learned that once the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, U.S. Congress passed the Naturalization Act in 1870, which included the barring of male C...