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    Stop Attacks on Asian-Americans NOW!
    March 30, 2021
    | BILLMOYERS.COM TEAM

    Over the past weeks the US has seen a growing number of attacks on Asian-Americans. Those who perpetrate them should learn a little about history and a lot about our democracy. 

  • Letters From an American
    Calling COVID “China Flu” Can Indeed Make It Deadly
    March 19, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Trump's shifting relationship with China.
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Maxine Hong Kingston Reads a Poem by Sandy Scull
    May 11, 2020
    "Sea Salt"
  • Poetry Month
    'A Footnote to a Hollywood Blockbuster'
    April 12, 2017
    | Sharon Lin
    Read the winning entry in New York City's Youth Poet Laureate contest.
  • Why the Democrats Need to Take Sides
    July 18, 2014
    | Harold Meyerson
    In order to better the economic circumstances of their constituency, Democrats should do something they have consistently avoided: taking a side in a class war.
  • Asian Americans Swing Toward Democrats
    November 30, 2012
    | John Light
    Asian Americans have shifted from supporting Republican candidates to overwhelmingly supporting Democrats. Have conservatives pushed them away?
  • No Turning Back
    March 5, 2003 | Becoming American – The Chinese Experience
    For author and activist Helen Zia and many other Chinese Americans, the last three decades have been a time of political awakening inspired by the Civil Rights movement.
  • Between Two Worlds
    March 1, 2003 | Becoming American – The Chinese Experience
    Part Two tells the story of these hostile years when Chinese Americans existed in a kind of limbo, denied rights in their new country and no longer at home in their former one.
  • Poets & Writers
    Bharati Mukherjee
    June 3, 1990 | A World of Ideas
    Bharati Mukherjee, an award-winning novelist and writer, calls America "a stage for transformation" — not only for herself, but also for her fellow immigrants.
  • Society
    Chen Ning Yang: Scientific Study, East vs. West
    October 31, 1988 | A World of Ideas
    The physics Nobelist discusses how the East and West approach scientific study and the understanding of scientific phenomena.


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