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  • YAC is Accepting Youth Film Submissions for Flip the Script!

    YAC is Accepting Youth Film Submissions for Flip the Script!

    OAKLAND, CA — The Youth Advisory Council is proud to host an issues-based digital film festival for California youth, titled “Flip the Script”. With two themes and four format categories, young filmmakers and enthusiasts will have many opportunities to win a $200 cash prize. Flip The Script: A Bay Area Youth Film Festival is currently

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  • COMMEMORATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF E.O. 9066

    COMMEMORATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF E.O. 9066

    February 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to order the evacuation of internment of Japanese Americans along the West Coast of the United States. Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach and the Youth Advisory Council invite you to commemorate the occasion with us this weekend with these

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  • COVERING UP THE PROBLEM

    COVERING UP THE PROBLEM

    Posted by Anna Cui  A morning talk show on Morocco’s state television broadcast a segment teaching people how to cover up domestic violence with makeup. The viewers reflected negatively which resulted in the TV station apologizing. The idea of covering up domestic violence bruises only suggest that they need to be covered up. Actions such

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  • API MENTAL HEALTH HEROES

    API MENTAL HEALTH HEROES

    Posted by Amber Chang Arvin Temkar’s blog post, “Suffering in the Dark,” highlights the necessity of bringing awareness to people of color suffering from mental health. Temkar brings awareness to the issue through the new book released by Bruce Springsteen titled Born to Run. The book describes Springsteen’s journey through clinical depression. Temkar explains that although it

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  • #SOLIDARITYWITHBRESHA

    #SOLIDARITYWITHBRESHA

    Tomorrow, January 20, marks the 175th day that Bresha Meadows has been in jail for defending herself and her family from her abusive father. Today is a national day of action for the #FreeBresha Campaign, a campaign demanding Bresha be reunited with her family and all charges against her are dropped. As youth fighting against domestic abuse,

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  • THE SURPRISING RESULTS OF ASIAN AMERICAN VOTES IN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

    THE SURPRISING RESULTS OF ASIAN AMERICAN VOTES IN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

    Posted by Wesley Phung Following the recent presidential election, there were a ton of surprises that were concealed by the president elect, Donald Trump, shocking victory. Despite the eye-opening results, there certainly were statistics from the polls that made people wonder, just how important this election was to a lot of different ethnic groups. The

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  • HOW DO *YOU* EAT PHO?

    HOW DO *YOU* EAT PHO?

    Posted by Julian Castro My story of the week was an article about a Caucasian chef announcing his judgments about how to eat pho, the famous Vietnamese noodle soup, correctly. Bon Appetit magazine was facing major criticism when the Philadelphian chef said his opinion on the video. But after you watch the video of his interview,

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