Jessica Prois
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Editorial director of @NBCAsianAmerica. Founder and former executive editor of HuffPost Asian Voices.
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Joined December 2008
Amid the year-end busyness, I missed this @kimmythepooh story about allegations of unaddressed anti-Asian harassment at the Cy-Fair school district outside Houston. It's worth a read if you missed it, too.
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Hai Au Huynh says her two sons were the target of racial taunts and other hateful incidents at their Texas elementary school.
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As traditional U.S. malls struggle to reinvent themselves, those that cater to Asian customers are emerging as popular destinations that blend shopping and community.
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As traditional U.S. malls struggle to reinvent themselves, those that cater to Asian customers are emerging as popular destinations that blend shopping and community.
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This is so exciting. @NBCAsianAmerica has started a newsletter. Please sign up here: https://t.co/5NC4reyoRt
#OwnOurStories #RepresenationMatters #AAPIMatters
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News. Culture. Tea. The stories we're talking about across our communities.
We started a newsletter on @NBCAsianAmerica! This week, read @sakshi_saroja on Ramaswamy and the debate, @kimmythepooh on Hawaiian sovereignty, @sahilkapur on AAPI voting power and @daysiatolentino on all-Asian friend groups. Sign up here!
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There’s a new newsletter from @NBCAsianAmerica! Sign up now!
We started a newsletter on @NBCAsianAmerica! This week, read @sakshi_saroja on Ramaswamy and the debate, @kimmythepooh on Hawaiian sovereignty, @sahilkapur on AAPI voting power and @daysiatolentino on all-Asian friend groups. Sign up here!
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Also in the letter, read Vivek's response to Ann Coulter's 'Hindu business' comments - @sakshi_saroja was first to get his team's response
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We started a newsletter on @NBCAsianAmerica! This week, read @sakshi_saroja on Ramaswamy and the debate, @kimmythepooh on Hawaiian sovereignty, @sahilkapur on AAPI voting power and @daysiatolentino on all-Asian friend groups. Sign up here!
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🤬 “I was covered in dirt, ashes, my eyes, my mouth, everything. I was just so thirsty,” Cabrera, who entered a hotel in search of water, said. “And there were hundreds of tourists drinking, having fun and not even caring.”
“I think the biggest worry was when we have bodies in that ocean that still had not been discovered, and for us to see them snorkeling when we still haven't retrieved all our dead — that was hard," one local said.
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This may be the best reporting on a climate disaster that I have ever seen.
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For centuries, Lahaina has been a significant economic, political and cultural center for Native Hawaiian communities.
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Some high profile Asian American leaders and groups say affirmative action ruling used the racial group as ‘pawns’ https://t.co/Wp1o0DWoJ5 from @kimmythepooh and @sakshi_saroja
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“The white supremacist agendas behind these lawsuits use the small number of Asian Americans against affirmative action as pawns in their efforts,” the nonprofit Asian American Advocacy Fund said.
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I wrote about Don Tamaki, the 1 non-Black member of CA's reparations task force, who's known for his legal work in the Japanese American redress &reparations movement. He talked solidarity &why reparations for the Black community is a critical issue to JAs https://t.co/uUFyz7bZFr
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“If it wasn’t for the Black Civil Rights Movement, where would we be?” said Don Tamaki, a Japanese American attorney and member of California’s reparations task force.
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Many Americans are getting their first taste of what coordinated, hyper-online Hindu nationalist attacks look like with the harassment of Sabrina Siddiqui. Experts expect this is just the beginning. I wrote about the Hindutva movement and how we got here: https://t.co/jB5G5o1DkB
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To some, Modi represents the face of a new, better India. To others, his human rights violations are ushering in an era of Hindu nationalism — and it's rapidly spreading in the U.S.
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Insanely good story from @sakshi_saroja on the new AsAm 3rd culture. Happy APAHM! 'The panic of opening an ethnic lunchbox in a crowded cafeteria is dead to them. It has been traded in for videos of their moms’ recipes narrated by artificial intelligence.'
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How sheer exposure to a mass online community has created an undaunted, self-sufficient generation of Asian American young people.
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'Beef' is a good show and here is a good article about it How Netflix’s ‘Beef’ nailed the Korean American evangelical experience https://t.co/8PIcWAQY77 via @nbcnews / @kimmythepooh @lalasoo
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Viewers have strong feelings about the show's authentic depiction of the sense of belonging, social pressures and uncomfortable dynamics inextricably linked to the church.
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Over the last year, I interviewed over a dozen Asian people in the U.S., posing them all one common question: Do you feel represented by the term “Asian American”? For brown, lower-income and minority Asians, the answer was overwhelmingly “No.” Here's why: https://t.co/I2dlPkwxBl
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Though a common identity has helped build political power over decades, the term “Asian American” is burying subgroups. It’s time, advocates say, to rethink how its used.
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There’s a bill in the Texas Senate right now that would ban all Chinese citizens from buying property (even homes) in the state. I talked to Chinese Texans who are scared and in disbelief, but are fighting. The bill already has the support of the governor. https://t.co/4qHQlf7KeW
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“I have never seen the Chinese community this active and this motivated in my entire adult life. The community is inflamed right now. They are enraged.”
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I got to chat with @RepRoKhanna about becoming the first Indian chair of the Congressional India Caucus. He told me about his goals, and I asked him about some of the things on our diaspora's mind (including rising Hindu nationalism and visa struggles.) https://t.co/nTOPGhOx2H
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The California Democrat told NBC News in an exclusive interview that he will be a co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans.
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“I would only hire Asians if I could,” a professor once told me. “You all are so hard-working.” She meant it as a compliment. “To some, Asian work matters more than Asian lives.” ~@mitrakalita @TIME
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The many misconceptions about the Asian employee experience in this country.
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“We have individuals who no longer have a place to live because they lived on the farm." @cynthiachoi1
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A week after Half Moon Bay shooting, survivors and victims' families are scared to go back to the scene - i.e. the farms where they lived and worked - meaning they're now without homes or income. @sakshi_saroja
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The tragedy left survivors and victims' families fearful to return to the farms where they lived and earned their livelihoods.
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My latest with @mirna_alsharif As Asian Ams attempt to make sense of 2 deadly shootings, experts warn against drawing broad cultural conclusions from the gun violence. The violence, rather, is symptomatic of a “uniquely American phenomenon,” said @DrJenHo. https://t.co/3IXSBn8Ubb
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As more Asian Americans become acculturated to American society, more will also absorb the pathologies of the U.S., said the president of the Association for Asian American Studies.
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