Kat Chow
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Let's rewind the clock 150 years to the end of the Civil War, when Southern planters had to find new laborers. -
Teachers with Asian-sounding names were given poorer marks, and their accents were the main reason.
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In 2004, Jin was one of the first Asian-Americans to drop a major label rap album. One controversial song, "Learn Chinese," raised eyebrows. A decade later, he's trying to rephrase the message. -
Racial tensions between blacks and whites are at the heart of the "Ol' Man River" musical. Asian-American actors say it doesn't make sense to get onboard.
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Alpesh Patel released the first-ever set of black emoticons last year. He says Apple still has a long way to go. -
Apple will be rolling out a more diverse set of emojis with browner — and yellower — skin tones. Here's the science behind how they come up with the colors. -
"If the movie had been directed by a 60-year-old white male," she also says, "I don't think that people would have been carrying on about it to the level that they were." -
In 2009, several Asian students were beat up at their high school. Students and teachers said it was a racially motivated attack. Six years later, here's what the school has done change things. -
Here are some of the many powerful essays we've come across in the aftermath of this tragedy. -
ABC recently green lighted a sitcom starring the doctor-turned-actor Ken Jeong, who will play a frustrated MD in Dr. Ken.
