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Yuri Kochiyama. Yuri Kochiyama (河内山 百合子 (ユリ・コウチヤマ), Kōchiyama Yuriko, formerly Mary Yuriko Nakahara; May 19, 1921 – June 1, 2014) was an American civil rights activist. Influenced by her Japanese-American family's experience in an American internment camp, her association with Malcolm X, and her Maoist and Islamic ...
Asian American history is the history of ethnic and racial groups in the United States who are of Asian descent. The term "Asian American" was an idea invented in the 1960s to bring together Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino Americans for strategic political purposes. Soon other groups of Asian origin, such as Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese ...
Sam Chu Lin – journalist, one of the first Asian Americans on network TV news. Lisa Ling (凌志慧) – journalist, known for her role as a co-host of ABC's The View and host of National Geographic Ultimate Explorer documentarian for CNN. Richard Lui – news anchor of MSNBC. Michelle Malkin – Fox News reporter and author.
Jameson Blake – actor, dancer and television personality. Eileen Boylan – actress (South of Nowhere, General Hospital) Q. Allan Brocka – director (Eating Out and its sequel), producer, actor. Cher Calvin – actress, news anchor (KTLA Morning News), Miss New York first runner up. Donita Rose – actress.
Yo-Yo Ma. Yo-Yo Ma[a] (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. [1] Born to and partially raised by Chinese [2] parents in Paris and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half.
One baker's sweet way of sharing the history of notable Asian Americans, one cookie at a time. Almost 10 years ago, a friend asked Jasmine Cho if she could create cookies with her face on it. Cho ...
Yuji Ichioka. Yuji Ichioka (Japanese: 市岡雄二, June 23, 1936 – September 1, 2002) was an American historian and civil rights activist best known for his work in ethnic studies, particularly Asian American Studies and for being a leader in the Asian American movement. An adjunct professor at UCLA, he and Emma Gee [1] coined the term ...
Asian-Americans are an ethnic group in the United States, denoting Americans of Asian descent. The phrase Asian-American was coined by Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee in 1968 during the founding of the Asian American Political Alliance, [1] [2] and started to be used by the U.S. census in 1980.