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The U.S. Supreme Court Loves You If You’re White, Rich, And Straight

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July 16, 2023

by Emil Guillermo As it closed out its most recent term, the U.S. Supreme Court showed how far it will go to protect a dwindling [Read More…]

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Conservative SCOTUS Teases Us On Affirmative Action, Racial Equality

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July 1, 2023

by Emil Guillermo If you’ve been following the Pro Publica reporting on Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito and their failure to disclose [Read More…]

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The Trump Indictments Unsealed and Why Won’t Waltine Nauta Flip?

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June 20, 2023

by Emil Guillermo The Waltine Nauta Scale? That’s part of the broader unofficial “loyalty scale” Asian Americans know all too well from U.S. history. For [Read More…]

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Tongi Wins Idol, Asians Get Into Harvard

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June 4, 2023

by Emil Guillermo I don’t know about you, but I think I’d rather be an “American Idol” than a Harvard matriculate. But we all know [Read More…]

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Trump’s New Yellow Peril: Will Filipinos–And All Asian Americans–Get Caught

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May 20, 2023

by Emil Guillermo I know only a small number of Filipinos like to use the term “Asian” or even “Asian American.” And now there’s data [Read More…]

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Loida Nicolas Lewis Shares Life Lessons In New Book

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May 9, 2023

by Emil Guillermo As Joe Biden announces his run for a second term for the presidency, you’d be hard-pressed to find a Filipino American more [Read More…]

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From the Big Apple to the Big Pineapple—Some Thoughts As I Await America’s First Presidential Indictment in History

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April 2, 2023

by Emil Guillermo I’m still in Manhattan as I write this and I’m wondering, if New York is the Big Apple, why isn’t Honolulu the [Read More…]

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How I’ve Given Up Real Life For Lent To Be An Actor. But Just For 45 Days Or So.

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March 17, 2023

L: Emil Guillermo as Gabriel Noitallde. R: Laura Robards as newscaster Hedda Duckbill. Photo by Jonathan Slaff.

by Emil Guillermo “Bloody Sunday,” the day of the 1965 Selma march for voting rights and social justice and the violent response to it by [Read More…]

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