NextShark Asian American News

By Ryan General
A monthlong exhibition at Monterey Park’s Bruggemeyer Library is using America’s 250th anniversary to highlight Asian American military service across nearly two centuries of U.S. history. “Duty, Honor, Country, Courage,” which opened on July 3 in the Library Friends Room, features veterans’ stories spanning from the Civil War to the present.

By Ryan General
More than 20 years after “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” launched a studio comedy franchise led by two Asian American actors, a fourth film is moving ahead at the screenplay stage with its core creative team returning. While attending the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, producer Greg Shapiro told Variety that the franchise’s actors and writers are coming back.

By Carl Samson
A federal search warrant unsealed this week reveals two previously unreported attacks near California’s Oceanside Pier more than a year ago, in which three men allegedly assaulted and seriously injured an Asian American man and two Camp Pendleton Marines while shouting racial slurs.
Elon Musk has declared that Americans who do not love their country are traitors who should be exiled, escalating a Fourth of July exchange on his social media platform.

By Carl Samson
The Trump administration is suing 99 Ranch Market’s parent company, alleging that it systematically fired, underpaid and denied promotions to employees because they are not Chinese.

By Carl Samson
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested more than 10,000 people over five days at the end of June, roughly doubling its daily arrest pace under a new target, according to reports.

By Carl Samson
Pastor Jin Mingri, the founder of Beijing’s underground Zion Church, has been released after nine months in detention and reunited with family in Los Angeles, less than two months after President Donald Trump raised his case directly with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

By Carl Samson
The Supreme Court’s rejection of President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship has not closed off Republican efforts to restrict it as a concurring opinion and other rulings offer new openings.

By Ryan General
Bruce Lee became the first Chinese American to receive an annual statewide commemorative day in California after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2455 on Tuesday, designating May 17 as Bruce Lee Day.

By Ryan General
With the U.S. marking its 250th anniversary this Independence Day, nearly half of Americans do not know what the milestone commemorates, according to a new national survey.
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