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Tuesday Night Cafe and TN Party - Support the Future of API Performers!

What is the best (and possibly only) place to go in Los Angeles on a Tuesday? 

Particularly if you are API and love amazing API performers?

 


API and the Oscar Grant Case: Memories of Michael Cho

There are certain dates I remember particularly well.  There was one date, a very particular January 1st, which I remember.  I remember being shocked, reading in the news that only the day before, on New Year’s Eve, a young promising man of color had been shot to death by the police.  This young man had left behind a family, many friends, and a distraught and angry community.  The shooting had happened only a few cities away from me, and the young man posed no immediate threat to anybody, including the police.


A Former Yellow Power Ranger on the Last Airbender

When I was ten years old, I was perpetually the Yellow Power Ranger.

This was slightly maddening to me, as a very young, small Asian boy, to be continually cast in the playground rendition of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, as a very pretty, slim Asian girl.  But considering the number of racial options my peers and I had been given, it was understandable how quickly I had been typecast.