Posts Tagged ‘firsts’
It was a bizarre June. Sorry I’ve been silent. But here’s a quick plug for some stuff worth checking out.
I’d heard about the Museum of Chinese in America but had never visited. I plan to check it out in the next few weeks and am even more excited that it has gotten a state-of-the-art makeover [...]
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Tags: art, chinese, comics, firsts, media
Well, that’s not quite true. We have been all up ons higher ed for quite a while. It’s not nicknamed University of Caucasians Living among Asians (UCLA) for nothing. But now Dartmouth has taken another step in choosing the first Asian-American to head an Ivy League institution. So this is quite interesting news.
Dr. Jim Yong [...]
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Tags: academia, firsts, korean
Anh Cao elected to Congress.
In a year of political firsts, I was interested to see that Anh Cao has broken another barrier by becoming the first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress. He ran as a Republican in Louisiana, unseating William J. Jefferson, a nine-term Rep-D who was dogged by scandal this year. Apparently, Jefferson was “charged with money laundering and [...]
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Tags: firsts, politics, vietnamese
