[Photo: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh sit together in front of a set of microphones. Both are looking serious and looking into the distance.]
Fun fact: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 1964) nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. Read his letter to the Nobel Committee here.
So about that climate change thing.
Lots of people have been making light of the fact that the weather in California has been great–but the truth is, the state is now in an official drought emergency.
High school students captured these images of the Sierras recently, by launching a high-altitude weather balloon equipped with a camera. Normally, these mountains are covered in snow by mid-January.
Read more about one of the coolest high school science projects ever (and the drought in California).
One of our staff found this site from McDonald’s, selling their corporate trash food and labor exploitation to Asian Americans. “Asian Phrases Challenge,” what the hell is this? Especially now that you’ve called the cops on Korean American elders who congregate at your restaurant in Queens?
I get zero “inspirasian” from McD’s. Thanks but no thanks.
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, youth in Florida reflect on Dr. King’s “Letters From A Birmingham City Jail”.
by Sandra Khalifa and Arely Lozano-Baugh
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letters from a Birmingham City Jail”
This coming Monday marks Martin Luther King Day, the annual ode to a man credited with winning “the dream” for millions of African Americans. This year marked the fiftieth anniversary of King’s “I have a dream” speech, where on the steps of our nation’s capitol, a Black man dared to imagine an America where Black boys and girls live with dignity.
In 1963, “Letters from a Birmingham City Jail” gave a scathing indictment of American equality from a King behind bars. He found himself there for the future of Black and Brown youth - for our generation, our children and our grandchildren. But today we find our youth entrenched in a new system of segregation.
Here’s the inaugural #NotYourAsianSidekick forum! I am just blown away by everything and I am really looking forward to our next one. The guests were awesome, your questions were on point, and I think I speak for the whole team when I say that the amount of energy around this was totally reinvigorating for us.
In the meantime, head over to the website to suggest topics for future forums. We have been hearing all kinds of amazing suggestions: conversations on queerness, multiracial families, Asian American adoptees, the role of Asian American artists in fighting racism in pop culture, and more come to mind…let’s hear it! (You can also suggest potential guests!)
So, team How I Met Your Mother apologized via Twitter for this (see above) crap. Well, they apologized for hurting our feelings, but not for the r-word.
On the 18MR Apology Scale, they get a 7 (because they seem earnest and never said “we never intended to…” outright).
The decision by a federal appeals court could pave the way for providers like Verizon and AT&T to charge content companies to deliver data at a faster speed.
I don’t even know what to add to this besides telling you that if you care about the internet, and if, like me, you think the point of the internet is to freely share ideas without the censorship of corporate entities, you should read up on yesterday’s net neutrality ruling.
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