Giving voice to all communities
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For the first time, South Asian voters will be represented at the top of a presidential ticket with Vice President Kamala Harris. On Friday, she will hold a rally in North Carolina, where South Asians are the largest and fastest-growing Asian voting bloc. CBS News correspondent Shanelle Kaul spoke with voters about the 2024 race.
Song is especially proud to manage Aurora's language access plan, where she helps all newcomers access city services in their native tongue.
Jordy Navarra is the chef behind the best restaurant in the Philippines. For the last five years, the Toyo Eatery has been garnering awards and plaudits from across Asia. But it's not just a restaurant: Navarra uses the kitchen to try and impact pressing environmental problems.
"I didn't even think that I would make it this far," Suni Lee told CBS News. She's taking home three medals from the 2024 Olympic Games.
Seventy-five hundred miles away from Paris, on the Big Island of Hawaii, another competition recently took place featuring the best hula dancers in the world, competing in the categories of traditional and modern hula. Correspondent Lee Cowan talked with teachers and students of the art of hula – an ancient form of storytelling that preserves the culture and grace of the Hawaiian people, as celebrated at the Merrie Monarch Festival.
Five years after China cracked down on massive pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, CBS News' Ramy Inocencio speaks with some of the key players who are still in the city, and others who have fled abroad about what some say is now little more than a Chinese police state.
The son of immigrant parents, who immersed himself in American culture growing up, built a career as a filmmaker with hits such as "Crazy Rich Asians" and "In the Heights," tapping into his own identity and translating stories of struggle and ambition to the screen.
Jon M. Chu, the son of immigrant parents, immersed himself in American culture growing up, and built a career as a filmmaker with hits such as "Crazy Rich Asians" and "In the Heights," tapping into his own identity and translating stories of struggle and ambition to the silver screen. He talks with correspondent Jo Ling Kent about how his childhood infatuation with "The Wizard of Oz" led to his directing the movie version of the smash Broadway musical "Wicked."
It's a craze sweeping the nation where each player has a wall of 13 to 14 tiles.
In 1982, Chinese American Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat by two white Detroiters, who received no jail time.
