This year the country marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act. The landmark law prohibited discrimination based on race and gender and was the culmination of a decades-long struggle for equality as a part of ...

It was my first quarter at UC Davis. I was 18, wide-eyed and still a little too excited for college. My first day on campus I ran over to the dingy basement where my campus newspaper’s office was and applied ...

A tall man wearing majestic royal robes over sagging sweatpants and teddy bear bedroom slippers bounds onto the stage and sets down a large black boombox, which soon starts blasting a background beat. “Yeah…Splash…Splash…Hi-Ya!” The man does karate kicks to ...

Thanks to a new bill proposed by Congress, Asian students may no longer be checking a one-size-fits-all “Asian” box when they provide information about themselves for school. Instead, they will be able to select from 11 specific Asian ethnicities, such ...

In-soo Park sits in a bustling food court in the heart of Los Angeles’ Koreatown with a newspaper spread out over his table. The black-and-white print isn’t filled with stories from the city around him but of news 6,000 miles ...

When 33-year-old Rashad Al-Dabbagh sat down to fill out the U.S. Census form for the first time in 2000, he was stumped. “You had all these ethnicities and nationalities and races, and nothing that said Arab or Middle Eastern,” said ...

Two years after the National Association of Black Journalists’ departure from UNITY, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists followed suit in 2013, causing many to question the current state of UNITY and whether it is living up to its core ...