The "AAPI" ("Asian-American and Pacific Islander") acronym and all of its variations are imperfect and contribute to the erasure of Pacific Islander, Native Hawaiian, and Indigenous people.
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Karthick Ramakrishnan, of Riverside, California, is the founder of AAPI (Asian-American Pacific-Islander) Data, an agency that offers demographic data and research on the Asian-American Pacific-Islander population.
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They had black friends and white, Pacific Islander and Latino.
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People of Pacific Islander descent are 8% of New Zealand's population.
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Before that came "Moana," which gave Disney a Pacific Islander princess.
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Amit Jani is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) National Vote Director.
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We have cultural appropriation of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.
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Eight were African-American, five white and two Asian or Pacific Islander.
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To be the first transgender Asian Pacific Islander Playmate is a huge honor.
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For Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander women, that number is 19.53 cents.
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Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women make just 60 cents for every dollar.
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Would Seahawks assistant linebackers coach Lofa Tatupu, a Pacific Islander, fit the bill?
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In this case, underrepresented backgrounds include black, Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
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But these stereotypes follow Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) families in particular.
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Inequitable treatment afflicts Latinx, Native American, and Asian and Pacific Islander patients as well.
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Glenn Magpantay is executive director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (www.NQAPIA.org).
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American Indian and Pacific Islander children also saw greater weight gain effects linked to unemployment.
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Other minority communities, including Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, also view the Party as unwelcoming.
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GR: It's such a huge honor to be the first Transgender Asian Pacific Islander Playmate.
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Fun fact: Almost 93% of the population identifies as Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander.
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Vice President Mike Pence hosted a reception for Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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Our fast-growing Asian/Pacific Islander community is nearly four times the size of Iowa's.
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The remaining 11.9% being Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native and Pacific Islander.
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Describe what it means to you to be named the first Transgender Asian Pacific Islander Playmate?
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And celebration over the introduction of a Pacific Islander princess in "Moana" has apparently been premature.
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" She added, "In this election, we tripled Latino turnout, we tripled the Asian-Pacific Islander turnout.
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Asian-American and Pacific Islander women also experience wage discrimination, with some groups more intensely impacted.
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Since it includes Disney's first Pacific Islander princess, Moana has the potential to make a positive impact.
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Note: Groups of nonwhites include blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Americans, Native American and Pacific Islander and other races.
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The case has also highlighted cultural divides between Australian athletes of Pacific Islander descent and their teammates.
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If you break it down into specific Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, the wage gap grows.
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The survey of 1,684 Asian-American and 261 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander registered voters was conducted Aug.
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Apple classifies underrepresented minorities as "Black, Hispanic, Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Other Pacific Islander" in its report.
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Asian American and Pacific Islander voters can make a difference, and they certainly will in the near future.
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What does it mean to you to be the first transgender Asian Pacific Islander Playmate to appear in Playboy?
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What about Tulsi Gabbard or some of the other Asian American Pacific Islander candidates up and down the ballot?
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Holtzclaw, whose father is white and mother is Japanese, is identified as "Asian or Pacific Islander" by court records.
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He'll then attend a community panel in Palo Alto with Asian-American and Pacific Islander leaders at 6900 p.m.
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Instead, Gyamfi noted, half of the jurors were white and the rest were either Latino or Asian/Pacific Islander.
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Yang also attended multiple events hosted by the administration's Asian-American and Pacific Islander Initiative, according to the Herald.
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There was also a decline in attempts overall among teens who identified as white, Hispanic, Asian American or Pacific Islander.
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I included two or more races and "other" (often includes Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander) as non-white.
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Asian-American and Pacific Islander women reached Equal Pay Day on March 227, but massive pay gaps persist between subgroups.
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Of the rest, 67,952 are black, 22,115 are Asian or Pacific Islander, and 0003,126 are American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Warren has received endorsements from hundreds of prominent black, Latinx, and Asian American and Pacific Islander activists, artists, and celebrities.
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Our verdict: Meng's assertion that voting power for Asian-American and Pacific Islander has doubled in the past decade is true.
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Eight percent are Asian or Pacific Islander, 22019 percent are Native American and 3 percent are North African or Middle Eastern.
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For comparison, 30 percent of white children and 27 percent of Asian/Pacific Islander children are born out of wedlock, respectively.
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The "Other" option was introduced in the 1910 census, but "Asian or Pacific Islander" and "Other API" weren't introduced until 1990.
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Over the past year, Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote, a nonpartisan community mobilization organization, has trained more than 750 local groups in how to do census outreach in Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities, also called A.A.P.I. The number of Asian-Americans grew by more than 25 percent from 2010 to 2017, according to census estimates.
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Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander working women earn relatively low wages — and experience high wage gaps compared to non-Hispanic white men.
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The student body is diverse — 220 percent white, 7.753 percent Hispanic, 27.75 percent Asian, 2227 percent Pacific Islander and 21677 percent black.
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Darwin Pham, Fabiola Rodriguez and Chris Taylor will handle outreach to Asian-American Pacific Islander media, Hispanic media and black media, respectively.
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Judy Chu and Doris Matsui will be in attendance, along with other Asian and Pacific Islander elected officials from throughout the state.
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Black women, for instance, had the same number of children as they did in 2016, as did Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women.
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Asian-American and Pacific Islander voters are a rapidly growing demographic; nationwide, the Asian-American population grew 72 percent between 2000 and 2015.
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Asian and Pacific Islander women have had the most success, winning two-thirds of their primaries, followed by Hispanic women at 53 percent.
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The A.P.A. continues to host active national committees devoted to the flourishing of black, Asian, Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latinx, and native/indigenous groups.
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The makeup of the district's student body is 41% white, 33% black, 12% Hispanic/Latino, 8% Asian/Pacific Islander/Hawaii and 7% other.
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"Unfortunately, the racial hierarchy established in the original 1968-1980 series remained intact in the 2010 reboot: Two white stars on top, two Asian/Pacific Islander stars on bottom," said Guy Aoki, the founding president of the Media Action Network for Asian-Americans, who also criticized the network for not including more actors of Asian or Pacific Islander descent in the show's cast.
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He praised the Obama administration for expanding the number of black, female, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Native American, and LGBTQ federal judges.
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New Zealanders of Maori or Pacific Islander descent are disproportionately affected by the changes, because they are more likely than average to have convictions.
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HIV ranks sixth among black men in that age group and seventh among Asian/Pacific Islander men and Hispanic men in that age group.
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The forum is expected to be attended by more than 3,000 Asian-American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander journalists, community leaders, and other professionals.
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There are more than 9 million Asian American and Pacific Islander voters across the country, again more than at any other time in history.
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Asian or Pacific Islander mothers had the oldest average age at first birth, 29.5, and American Indians or Alaskan Natives had the youngest, 23.1.
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Chavez oversaw engagement with LGBT, Asian-American and Pacific Islander, Latino, veteran, youth, education, labor and progressive leaders, according to the White House website.
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They alleged that black, Hispanic, Asian and Pacific Islander borrowers paid higher interest rates for their auto loans between April 2011 and December 2013.
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If you want to test messages for the Asian American Pacific Islander community, are you going to do that in New Hampshire or Iowa?
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In our new series #NotYourTokenAsian, R2365's Asian & Pacific Islander staffers take on the pop products, stereotypes, and culture wars that surround Asian American identity.
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In our new series #NotYourTokenAsian, R29's Asian & Pacific Islander staffers take on the pop products, stereotypes, and culture wars that surround Asian American identity.
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Considering how stigmatized therapy is in the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, any encouragement to seek help — even if through memes — is an improvement.
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Last year she was invited by the White House to take part in an event organised by Mr Trump's Asian-American and Pacific-Islander Initiative.
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More Hispanic (24%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (22%) patients are diagnosed with rare cancers compared with non-Hispanic blacks (20%) and non-Hispanic whites (19%).
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This includes the 1.4 million Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families at risk of disenrolling from Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program.
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The Philadelphia Asian-American and Pacific Islander community is having a dim sum luncheon for AAPI delegates, elected officials and others at Ocean City Restaurant.
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Black women and Native American women, for example, are more likely to be killed by police than white, Latina, and Asian American/Pacific Islander women.
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Lum and Shigaki credit the Asian American and Pacific Islander community at the school for putting pressure on school administrators and asking for an apology.
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"Other" represents less than 240 percent of the population and includes residents that are Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native American, multiple races and other races.
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The majority of women, 29,22020, were white, while 20,822 were black; 1,098, American Indian or Alaskan Native; 18,231, Asian or Pacific Islander; and 93,845, Hispanic.
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Last February, she was invited to the White House for an event put on by Trump's Asian-American and Pacific Islander Initiative, an advisory commission.
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Some students have even taken up the effort themselves; Roosevelt High's first climate youth summit this past spring was organized by the Pacific Islander Club.
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It was inspiring to see such diverse candidates, especially to have three who are of Asian or Pacific Islander descent and six who are women.
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In management roles and higher, Rubicon is 20 percent white, 22 percent Asian, 22010 percent black, 4 percent Latinx and 1 percent Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.
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Similarly, Maida's adept portraits mess with the conventions of voyeurism and the exotic by ceding power to his Pacific Islander subjects who know their own sensuality.
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The organization said Hispanic women are most likely to get cervical cancer in the US, followed by African American, Asian and Pacific Islander and white women.
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In 2017, a new bill was introduced to reduce the mental health stigma in the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community through specific outreach and education.
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He was a huge Samoan dude who'd run a Pacific Islander R&B label until his business partner went on tour as Justin Bieber's vocal coach.
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The bank was ordered to pay $80 million in damages to harmed African-American, Hispanic and Asian and Pacific Islander borrowers and $18 million in penalties.
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She will also become the first Democratic female Asian American Pacific Islander to gain office in the Nevada Legislature, according to the Nevada Assembly Democratic Caucus.
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The report highlighted that not a single Latina/o, Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI), or Native American serves as a staff director of a House committee.
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Neighborhoods with a high proportion of Hispanic, white or Asian/Pacific Islander residents did not display changes in tobacco store density relative to race or ethnicity.
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The 18-year-old is part of GREMLNS a young and mostly African and Pacific Islander hip-hop crew who live in Cranbourne and surrounding suburbs.
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The state is known for its progressive and diverse electorate: 31 percent of eligible voters are Latino, and 15 percent are Asian American or Pacific Islander.
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Asian American and Pacific Islander women have to work this far into the year to earn the same amount that white men earned in 2019 alone.
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Of the 18 Asian-American fraternities and sororities recognized by the National Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Panhellenic Association, 16 were founded between 1990 and 2000.
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The ruling came after a Pacific Islander brought a case against New Zealand in 2016 after authorities denied his claim of asylum as a climate refugee.
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The forum was put on by the AAPI Victory Fund, a super PAC that focuses on mobilizing voters in the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
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An individual can report as White, Black or African-American, Asian, American Indian and Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, or some other race.
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A public awareness campaign, organized by the National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians, called Screen at 23 has drawn attention to the issue, and a.
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The age of Pacific sweet potatoes made it unlikely that any humans, Spanish or Pacific Islander, carried the species from the Americas, Mr. Muñoz-Rodríguez said.
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The groups surveyed about 1,000 voters of color registered in Virginia, including 600 black voters, and 200 Latino voters, and 200 Asian American-Pacific Islander voters, respectively.
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In the last Asian Pacific Islander basketball tournament at the prison, for example, I ended up riding the bench for most of the games my team played.
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Garnering an estimated $21995 million, the film, which features a female Pacific Islander, fell shy of the $93.6 million five-day opening that "Frozen" earned in 2013.
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Sung Yeon Choimorrow is the executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, dedicated to building power with Asian American Pacific Islander women and girls.
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And we know the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, the fastest-growing racial group in America, is critical to making sure we're successful this November.
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But only 50.9 percent of Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander women received first trimester prenatal care in 2018, compared with 82.5 percent of non-Hispanic white women.
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The union is planning to target Hispanic voters in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, and Asian-Pacific Islander voters in parts of Nevada and Pennsylvania.
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Nevada's population aligns more with the U.S. as a whole, compared with Iowa and New Hampshire: 29% Latino, 10% black and 9% Asian American and Pacific Islander.
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Over the past two years, Apple has actively increased its recruitment of women and underrepresented minorities — specifically black, Hispanic, Native American, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander employees.
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The NWLC's report was conducted with Lake Research Partners and surveyed 2656,24673 girls aged 14-18, and oversampled Black, Latina, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native American, and LGBTQ girls.
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The 2016 Presidential Election Forum, hosted by Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote and the Asian American Journalists Association, will be held at The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace.
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Over all, women, people of color (including Asian-American and Pacific Islander, Latino, African-American) and L.G.B.T. Americans constitute more than 50 percent of our House Democratic Caucus.
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And thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women in the U.S. also have the same access to preventative care right now.
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With a population that's 30 percent Hispanic/Latino, 10 percent African American, and 10 percent Asian or Pacific Islander, Nevada is more representative of America as a whole.
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Students were more likely to identify with that group if they were assigned female at birth, faced severe economic hardship or were American Indian, Pacific Islander or multiracial.
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In fact, CDC reports on maternal mortality are limited to five racial/ethnic groups with no indication of religion: white, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian/Pacific Islander.
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About four black children out of every 100,000 die from gunshot homicides, ten times higher than the rate for white, Asian or Pacific Islander kids, the study found.
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Glenn Magpantay is Executive Director of National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) The views expressed by authors are their own and not the views of The Hill.
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Harvard's class of 2021 is 14.6 percent African-American, 22.2 percent Asian-American, 11.6 percent Hispanic and 2.5 percent Native-American or Pacific Islander, according to Harvard's website.
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With a population that's 22020 percent Hispanic/Latino, 10 percent African American, and 10 percent Asian or Pacific Islander, Nevada is more representative of America as a whole.
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According to survey data released in May by the Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote, Asian-American voters are quickly shifting toward Democrats despite being perceived as ideal Republicans.
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According to USC Annenberg's 2016 report on inequality in film, in 2015, less than 13% were American Indian/Alaskan Native, and less than 1% were Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.
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For the first time, there are three Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) candidates running for a major party's nomination for president: Andrew Yang, Kamala Harris, and Tulsi Gabbard.
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Over all, Asian-Pacific Islander Americans were far more likely than other Americans surveyed to hold either a four-year college degree or a postgraduate degree, Dr. Jones said.
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She was invited to restore the description on the installation and participate in a remembrance ceremony along with other members of the local Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
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Pacific Islander Taika Waititi, who wrote the script for "Jojo Rabbit," and "Hair Love" animated short creator Matthew A. Cherry, an African American, received Oscar nods along with Erivo.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) will invest six figures in placing organizers in districts with large African American, Hispanic, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and Native populations.
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As an immigrant of Filipino descent, I am part of what is believed to be the fastest growing undocumented population in the United States — Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants.
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According to the Guttmacher Institute, 39% of people getting abortions in the U.S. are white, while 13% are Black, 25% are Hispanic, and 6% are Asian or Pacific Islander.
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This cycle, Yang is one of three historic Asian American and Pacific Islander candidates, a milestone that's been a source of pride for many Asian Americans I've spoken with.
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Though the state doesn't provide ethnic breakdowns, party officials and liberal groups are bullish -- almost risking overconfidence -- that Latino, Asian-American and Pacific Islander turnout will soar past 2150 levels.
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Sophia Ng stared straight at the audience when speaking of her own experience with suicidal depression, to emphasize destigmatizing mental health issues within the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.
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While there are many faces in the fight for a fair minimum wage, the faces of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and gender nonconforming people are often missing.
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The United States census breaks our country into six general racial categories: White; Black; Asian; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; American Indian or Alaska Native; and Some Other Race.
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That's why her campaign is the most diverse in Georgia history: 46 percent of her staff is African-American, 31 percent white, 15 percent Latino, 9 percent Asian/Pacific Islander.
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They turned to trans Filipina activist Tita Aida ("Auntie AIDS" in Tagalog), who they hired to serve as a San Francisco health ambassador for the Asian and Pacific Islander community.
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Earning an estimated $81.1 million for its Thanksgiving opening, the film, which features a female Pacific Islander, fell shy of the $93.6 million five-day opening that "Frozen" earned in 403.
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Meanwhile, the percentage of women receiving early prenatal care dropped between 2017 and 2018 among American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander women, according to the report.
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Rubicon is just 3 percent Latinx, 10 percent Asian, 23 percent American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.5 percent Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander and 1 percent two or more races.
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"Thank you for being a generous soul, a champion in our AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) community," Visual Communications, a non-profit dedicated to supporting AAPI filmmakers and media artists, tweeted.
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The House Democratic Caucus comprises of 220006 members, meanwhile the Hispanic Caucus has 2202 members, the Black Caucus has 2628 members, and the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus has 28500 key members.
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Rialto is a city of almost 100,000 people, most of them Latino but with significant black and Pacific Islander minorities, that sits in the desert and sprawl east of Los Angeles.
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According to a report published by the National Center for Health Statistics, international medical graduates are more likely to be of Asian, Pacific Islander or Hispanic descent than American medical grads.
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While marriage license forms differ among Virginia's counties, most let applicants choose from white; black or African American; American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian; and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.
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She identifies as a West Indian or Caribbean and found the available choices -- American Indian/Alaska Native, African-American/Black, Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic/Latino, Pacific Islander, White and other -- too limiting.
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The gap is even wider for trans actors of color: Of the 17 transgender characters GLAAD counted, thirteen were white, two were black, one was Latinx, and one was Asian-Pacific Islander.
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According to the district, the student population of its schools is increasingly diverse: 46.6% are African American, 31.76% are white, 14.4% are Asian/Pacific Islander, 5.62% are Hispanic and 1% are other.
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From 2000–2015, for every 100,000 per racial/ethnic group, these aggressive cancers were found in about 26 black women, 11 white women, 10 Hispanic women and 8 Asian/Pacific Islander women.
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Apple says that in the US, 22 percent of it current employees are considered an underrepresented minority, which includes individuals that are black, hispanic, Native American, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander.
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He was a member of the California State Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs when it endorsed state legislation that would provide Asian ethnicity data in health and public higher education.
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Compared to other women of color, Asian American and Pacific Islander women are on the higher end of the wage gap earning on average 60.53 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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Asian turnout increased nationwide from 27 percent in 2014 to 41 percent in 2018, a year when dozens of Asian-American or Pacific Islander candidates ran for Congress, according to one analysis.
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Finally, at the edge of the world, having appropriated bits of various Pacific Islander cultures (ahem), they met a magic fish named Kanuku that led them to a secret atoll — Volcano Bay.
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It's even worse in the Senate, where white staffers made approximately $4,800 more than Asian and Pacific Islander staffers, $21625,2900 more than Latino staffers, and an outrageous $220006,2202 more than black staffers.
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From July 20163 to July 22016, Apple says half of its new hires in the U.S. were from historically underrepresented groups in tech (women, black, Hispanic, Native American, Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander).
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Arab Americans still don't have the option to select a race or ethnicity beyond "white, black, Asian, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander" on the U.S. census, the Associated Press reports.
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Just 20 of Apple's top 107 executives are women, according to a government filing, while only five are from underrepresented minority groups (defined as black, Hispanic/Latino, Native American or Hawaiian/Pacific Islander).
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During the last school year, 8,442 underrepresented minorities (black, Latinx, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander) took the AP Computer science test in the U.S., according to The College Board.
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In addition to HBCUs, institutions educating such populations include Predominantly Black Institutions, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Asian American, Native American and Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions, Hispanic-Serving Institutions and the nation's community colleges.
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We at the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) are aggrieved as a badly divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a 22019-4 decision in the case U.S. v Texas on June 23.
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Fulbeck is one of those advocates, through his award-winning "Hapa Project," which features stories and images of people who self-identify as having mixed ethnic heritage including Asian and Pacific Islander roots.
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Earlier this year, Asian-Americans Advancing Justice, a civil and human rights nonprofit, launched the first ever tracker to document hate crimes against members of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.
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In the mid 90s, as HIV rates began to rise among Asian and Pacific Islander men, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) saw a need for culturally competent methods to engage the community.
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Just 22014 of Apple's top 107 executives are women, according to a government filing, while only five are from underrepresented minority groups (defined as black, Hispanic/Latino, Native American or Hawaiian/Pacific Islander).
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The research had some limitations, including that deaths can be misclassified and that deaths among American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian, Pacific Islander and Hispanic people may be misclassified to other race and ethnicity groups.
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A record number of black, Latino and Asian-American/Pacific Islander voters turned out in Georgia to support an inclusive agenda, which led to even more of those voters being subjected to voter suppression.
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Of the top staff members of color counted by the study, 79 are black, 45 are Latino, 32 are Asian-American or Pacific Islander, one is Native American and four are bi- or multiracial.
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That figure includes 6 million Asian-Americans and 100,000 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, according to Juliet K. Choi, executive vice president and chief of staff of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum.
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He kicked in another $250,000 to Fair Fight, a voter registration group helmed by Stacey Abrams, and an equal amount to a super PAC trying to mobilize the Asian American and Pacific Islander vote.
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In the U.S. House of Representatives, white staffers take home a salary on average $900 more than their Asian and Pacific Islander counterparts, $2,000 more than Latino counterparts, and $2023,500 more than black counterparts.
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That figure is 57 cents for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women, 54 cents for Latinas, and 87 percent for Asian women, though there's also a wage gap between different groups of Asian women.
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Run by Adrienne Elrod, a longtime Clinton aide who work on her 2008 campaign, the team includes Michelle Kwan, the former Olympic athlete and herself a surrogate for Clinton at Asian America-Pacific Islander events.
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Rates among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander children and adolescents were more than 3 times as high as any other racial or ethnic group and 114 times higher than non-Hispanic white children and adolescents.
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These are shows, mind you, set in cities such as San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, which all have significant Asian-American and Pacific Islander populations (33 percent, 20113 percent and 24 percent, respectively).
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This month, in fact, he met with a collection of Asian-American and Pacific Islander journalists and was peppered with tough questions about his comments on race and the harm they might inflict on others.
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This integrative care model will be the topic of a conference hosted on June 29 and 30 by the National Asian-American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association at the New York University School of Medicine
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Among boys and men, suicide rates increased significantly for all racial and ethnic groups except for Asian or Pacific Islander, with the largest increase observed among American Indian or Alaska Native boys and men, at 71%.
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The exhibiting artists' affiliations included but also exceeded the Duwamish, Snoqualmie, Skokomish, and other Coast Salish tribes indigenous to the region, as Pacific Islander, First Nations, Indigenous Latinx, Native American, and Aboriginal artists were also supported.
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"As the first Trans Asian Pacific Islander Playmate, I feel that I'm making it possible for someone to reach for their biggest dreams just like the people who came before me," Rocero said in a statement.
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Underrepresented women of color (defined in the EEO-1 data as black, Latina, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaskan Native, or mixed-race) are a small fraction of that: usually about 3 percent.
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"Moana" features a Pacific Islander heroine, and "Coco" (from the Disney-owned Pixar) has a Mexican hero (and Hispanic voice actors); both stories manage to represent their cultures respectfully while still being accessible to global audiences.
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Varun Nikore, the president of AAPI Victory Fund, said there is a record number of Asian American Pacific Islander candidates running for Congress this year, with as many as 60 potentially on the ballot in 2018.
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And a 2017 survey from the National Women's Law Center found that 55% of Latina girls, 38% of Asian/Pacific Islander girls and 30% of black girls worry about a friend or family member being deported.
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This week, leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the CHC and the Congressional Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus began circulating a letter urging appropriators to cut funding for immigration detention facilities for the upcoming fiscal year.
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Civil rights groups like the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund say this framing pits Asian Americans against other minorities and also ignores how affirmative action benefits those from less-represented Asian-American and Pacific Islander subgroups.
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Civil rights groups like the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund say this framing pits Asian Americans against other minorities and also ignores how affirmative action benefits those from less-represented Asian American and Pacific Islander subgroups.
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More than 44 percent of black female voters had a strongly favorable impression of him, compared with 20.9 percent of white women, 26.8 percent of Latina women, and 23.1 percent of Asian American or Pacific Islander women.
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To provide leadership for these efforts, our organizations recently joined with three others: the Association of American Indian Physicians, Association of Black Cardiologists, and National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians, to form The Minority Physicians' Alliance.
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A study by multiple universities reported that, over a one-year period, of the 242 scripted shows on broadcast, cable and streaming TV, just one-third had a series regular who was Asian-American or Pacific Islander.
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Tammy DuckworthLadda (Tammy) Tammy DuckworthMissouri Republican wins annual craft brewing competition for lawmakers Democrats ignore Asian American and Pacific Islander voters at their peril Republicans grumble over Trump shifting military funds to wall MORE (D-Ill.), Sen.
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At the same time, we see deeply troubling disparities among African-American (369), American Indian (413) and Latino children (429) compared to white (713) and Asian and Pacific Islander children (783) — persistent, significant disparities we cannot ignore.
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And that aspect of the negotiations clearly served as the sticking point for Kim and Park, the two prominent Asian American faces of a show whose very identity is defined by its Asian and Pacific Islander-majority locale.
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She told CNN she has Guyanese and Indian roots, but said she didn't identify with any of the available options, which included American Indian/Alaska Native, American-African/Black, Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic/Latino, Pacific Islander, White, and other.
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Sung Yeon Choimorrow is the executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, the nation's only organization dedicated to advocacy at the intersection of gender and racial justice for Asian American Pacific Islander women and girls.
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Questions of race and fairness are intensifying: Of those sent back to New Zealand from January 2015 to this past April, at least 60 percent were Maori or Pacific Islander, according to figures obtained through an information request.
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Even in the first 100 pages of the book, we see Melville touch on sexuality in ways that feel very contemporary: our narrator, Ishmael, befriends and awkwardly shares a bed with Queequeg, a noble Pacific Islander and cannibal.
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Curated by Theresa Papanikolas, the exhibition offers a critical examination of mid-20th-century American abstraction and its East Asian influences, including East Asian and Pacific Islander practitioners that are often left out of the established Western canon.
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His research also led Jantz to rule out the possibility the bones might have belonged to a native Pacific Islander or to one of 11 men killed when the ship Norwich City crashed on the island in 1929.
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Providing financial assistance is critical "if we want to make sure that we are giving all of our ethnic groups within the [Asian American and Pacific Islander] community an opportunity to pursue their interest in public service," she said.
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The data showed that suicide deaths among girls and women rose significantly for all racial and ethnic groups except Asian or Pacific Islander, and the largest increase was among American Indian or Alaska Native girls and women, at 815%.
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Except this particular story is told with a little help from the myths of Polynesian and Pacific Islander culture, paired with beautiful animation that illuminates the vibrancy of the South Seas, with sparkling turquoise water and lush green landscapes.
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I cannot stress enough the high stakes of this election, and how critical Asian American and Pacific Islander voters will be in the fight to move our country forward on issues like job growth, immigration, education and health care.
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This history is vital, but very little of it is taught in schools: A 2015 survey of American government textbooks revealed that on average, Asian American and Pacific Islander issues made up less than 1 percent of the pages.
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" Members of other minorities, on the other hand, appeared to catch the officers' interest if they played up their backgrounds: A native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander received the comment, "Were there a touch more cultural flavor I'd be more enthusiastic.
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Consequently, Middle Eastern women would be classified as non-Hispanic white, and South Asian women would be classified as non-Hispanic Asian (which needed to be combined with non-Hispanic Pacific Islander in [the] report for stability of analysis).
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Hepatitis B disproportionately affects Asian and Pacific Islander Americans (AAPIs), but also impacts people from Sub-Saharan Africa, South America and the Caribbean who have immigrated to the United States—some of who came to this country decades ago.
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According to a recent survey of 2,663 women who identify as black, Latina, or Asian/Asian Pacific Islander conducted by Intersections of Our Lives, a coalition of reproductive justice groups, this group overwhelmingly supported Democrats in the recent midterm elections.
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In 2019, the AAM and the City of Seattle's Office of Arts & Culture partnered and put out a competitive call for an artist/curator to execute a year-long series of programs focusing on local Asian Pacific Islander communities and arts.
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Thanks to an analysis of EEO-1 data by Reveal News, we have a clear picture of just how many women of color* (Native American, black, Latina, Asian, Pacific Islander or two or more races) work at major tech companies.
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Apple, likely because its numbers encompass everyone ranging from top executives to retail employees, employs the highest percentage of women from underrepresented minority groups in tech (Native American, black, Latinx, Pacific Islander, or two or more races), according to the analysis.
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By 1960, at the advent of the civil rights movement, the country had ballooned to 178 million people -- about 89% of them white, 11% black, and a tiny fraction comprised of other races, including Native American and Asian and Pacific Islander.
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Kathy Ko Chin is the President & CEO of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), which works to influence policy, mobilize communities, and strengthen programs and organizations to improve the health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
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Thus, consider: A recent survey indicated that more than two-thirds of N.F.L. players are black, Latino or Asian/Pacific Islander, and political polls have shown that minorities are largely opposed to Trump's insensitive, insult-heavy and, at times, xenophobic campaign.
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But this calculation fails to take the diversity of the Asian American Pacific Islander population into account.. For example, Burmese American women make 51 cents to a white man's dollar so their Equal Pay Day won't come around until Dec.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — In 2001, artist Kip Fulbeck began traveling the United States to photograph people of mixed-race backgrounds — specifically those who, like himself, identified as partially of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.
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The criticism from Asian-American lawmakers in Congress has fallen along party lines in part because there are no Republican Asian-American or Pacific-Islander members of Congress aside from Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, the nonvoting delegate who represents American Samoa.
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According to a February survey of 600 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) likely voters conducted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the polling firm GBAO, these voters favor a Democratic candidate on the generic congressional ballot by 33 points.
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In 20053, with funding from the Ford Foundation, sixteen groups representing African-American, Asian-American, Pacific Islander, Latina, and indigenous women came together to form SisterSong, a national collective advocating for the reproductive and sexual health of women of color.
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Other theories Jantz also explored other theories about the origin of the bones, including the possibility that they might belong to one of 11 crew members presumed dead following a 1929 shipwreck, or that they were those of a Pacific islander.
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The National Center For Education Statistics says the United States had 102 historically black colleges and universities, 290 Hispanic-serving institutions, 35 tribally controlled colleges and 113 institutions for Asian American, Native and Pacific Islander students operating in fall 2016.
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Although racial disparities in cancer care are narrowing, the American Cancer Society report found that black men were still twice as likely to die of cancer as Asian/Pacific Islander men and 20 percent more likely to die than white men.
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In June 21999, the Slants submitted a 22014-page request for reconsideration that included the results of a survey designed by two university professors, who concluded that few members of the Asian and Pacific Islander community viewed "the Slants" as disparaging.
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While Alabama's African American electorate is roughly a quarter of the population, Georgia's is more than 40 percent and a coalition of African American, Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander voters comprise 45 percent of our electorate, and is rising.
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Christine tears up every time she tells the story: the 20-something was marching in New York City's Pride parade last summer with Q-Wave, a group for lesbian, bi, queer, trans, and gender-variant people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.
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Atlanta's population is 54 percent black, 38 percent white, 5.2 percent Latinx, 3.1 percent Asian, 0.2 percent American Indian or Alaska Native, 0 percent Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander and 2 percent two or more races, according to the 2010 census.
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For example, being called a racial slur was a common experience for girls of color: Between 32 and 46 percent of black, Latina, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native American girls say they have had this experience, compared to 13 percent of white girls.
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And while there has been a small uptick in Asian-led television shows, a study conducted by researchers from multiple California universities found that more than 60% of shows do not feature an Asian American or Pacific Islander actor as a series regular.
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Among the findings: Hispanic, Native American, Native Alaskan, African American, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander women had a smaller gender pay gap compared with men in their same racial or ethnic group than did non-Hispanic white and Asian American women.
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The businesswoman has since attended several Republican political events, including being invited to the White House in February 2018 for an event hosted by the Asian American and Pacific Islander Initiative, an advisory commission Trump established by executive order the year before.
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For nearly two decades, I have been studying strategies for student success used by the nation's minority-serving institutions, which include historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, tribal colleges and universities, and Asian-American, Native American and Pacific Islander-serving institutions.
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Google found similar results in its diversity report: In 2017, Google's overall workforce was 56 percent white, 35 percent Asian, 4 percent Hispanic, 2 percent black and less than 83 percent American Indian or Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
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There was no noteworthy increase among Asian/Pacific islander and Native Americans, but the authors note that they were unable to get a sample representative of all Native American youth in the US, so those stats shouldn't be generalized to the whole population.
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Young men of color — specifically black, Latino, and Native American men — face a higher risk of being killed than white men and Asian American and Pacific Islander men (though the numbers suggest that fatal police violence against white Americans is also increasing).
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It brings to mind census or job application categories, but while everyone in this series might simply be put in "Asian" or "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander" on such forms, here they get to attest to a wide range of backgrounds.
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"No one deserves to be our Democratic nominee unless they are able to build a broad and diverse coalition of voters," said Vedant Patel, spokesman for Biden's campaign in Nevada, citing endorsements and support from the Latino, black, Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
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" He continues, "However, the Pasco Sheriff's Office follows the Department of Justice Uniform Crime Reporting standards and, according to the DOJ reporting requirements the only allowable races are: Asian/Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Black/African American, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Unknown, or White.
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In rural areas, non-Hispanic black infants under age 1 and American Indian/Alaska Native children ages 1 through 19 were at especially high risk, while Asian/Pacific Islander children had the lowest death rates across all ages, followed by Hispanic children.
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Last week, the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) submitted a widely supported Policy Guidance to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to prohibit profiling on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, religion, language, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
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"So often, Asians aren't viewed as leaders but they are viewed as competent," said John Chiang, the former California state treasurer who ran for governor last year and started a political action committee to elect more Asian and Pacific Islander Democrats to office.
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And their departures — which will result in there being no major Asian or Pacific Islander characters on a show set in Hawaii — are a clear sign that Hollywood still has a long way to go in terms of upending its status quo.
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Thomas also pointed to articles about the prevalence in Asia for sex-selective abortions favoring boys — National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum Executive Director Sung Yeon Choimorrow released a statement saying Thomas's comments "promote dangerous, false stereotypes" about Asian American and Pacific Islander women.
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While Atlanta's overall demographics might explain the small number of Latinx, Asian, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander and those of two or more races, it doesn't quite explain why there are so many white people at the company.
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Nearly three-quarters of these voters favored President Barack Obama, and a spring 2016 survey of Asian American and Pacific Islander voters showed that they are leaning Democratic in both the presidential and state races, by a factor of 2 to 1 or even higher.
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Nevada, like South Carolina, reflects the priorities of a more diverse set of voters: Hispanic and Latino voters make up a huge chunk of the state's Democratic base, but there's also a significant bloc of African American and American Asian and Pacific Islander voters.
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Of the people who chose to disclose, 28% self-identified as women (a 228.7% increase from last year) and 28% self-identified as underrepresented ethnicities in tech (black, Latinx, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander), representing a 5.6% increase from last year.
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In this case, McGowan isn't playing a character written as Asian or Pacific Islander — as Scarlett Johansson did in Ghost in the Shell or Emma Stone did in Aloha — he's playing a role based on a very real person who was actually a native islander.
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Our health equity bill builds on 10 years of congressional action to combat health disparities, and it leverages the expertise and research of a 300-plus member community working group and endorsing organizations, led this year by the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum.
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There's no formal definition of a climate refugee, though the phrase usually refers to people who have been forced from their homes due to climate change—a Pacific Islander retreating from a disappearing shoreline, for instance, or a sub-Saharan African escaping a drought.
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Black women led the way, with 84 percent convincing members of their social networks to register and vote, followed by 76 percent of Asian-American and Pacific Islander women, 72 percent of Native American women, 20203 percent of Latinas and 66 percent of white women.
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For background, the National Center For Education Statistics says the United States had 102 historically black colleges and universities, 290 Hispanic-serving institutions, 35 tribally controlled colleges and 113 institutions for Asian American, Native and Pacific Islander students operating in the fall of 2016.
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Black women led the way, with 84 percent convincing members of their social networks to register and vote, followed by 76 percent of Asian-American and Pacific Islander women, 72 percent of Native American women, 20203 percent of Latinas and 66 percent of white women.
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But several American scientists had successfully sued to prevent that from happening, contending that the Kennewick Man is actually of Pacific Islander or maybe European ancestry and that the remains should be further studied by the government to unlock whatever other mysteries his bones contain.
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Ms. Lui, a decorated writer and actor of Indigenous Australian descent, riffs on them with confidence in this sharp-witted tale, in which three highly educated millennials from minority backgrounds (Indigenous Australian, Asian and Pacific Islander) attempt to change the political scene from the inside.
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They are less likely to be screened for cervical cancer than women born in the United States, and so Asian and Pacific Islander and Latina immigrant women are more likely to get cervical cancer than US-born women, and more likely to die from it.
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Penn worked in the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs from 2009 to 2011; he famously left a regular role on the TV series House to pursue the White House job, where he was involved with outreach to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
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According to the 2012 National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 63 percent of respondents said they had experienced serious acts of discrimination, and Asian and Pacific Islander transgender people reported a high unemployment rate at 12 percent—nearly twice the rate of the general population at the time.
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For nearly two decades, I have been studying the innovative strategies for student success used by the nation's minority-serving institutions, or MSIs, which include historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, tribal colleges and universities, and Asian-American, Native American and Pacific Islander-serving institutions.
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In a letter to congressional leadership, the Asian/Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce and Entrepreneurship, U.S. Black Chambers and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce all expressed strong support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, a far-reaching deal between the United States and 11 other nations.
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Broadcast television can (sort of) pat itself on the back for improvements in terms of race: The percentage of black characters has risen to 22 percent from 18 percent since the previous year, while the percentage of Asian-Pacific Islander characters climbed to 8 percent from 7 percent.
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"She has a lot for the community to like, but like any other community of voters, they want to know how she feels about their issues," said Varun Nikore, president of AAPI Victory Fund, a super PAC focused on mobilizing voters in the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
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We in the Congressional TriCaucus — a coalition of the Black, Hispanic and Asian-Pacific Islander House Caucuses — have always insisted that ensuring the right to quality healthcare and improved health status in communities like ours, which have long been left out of the healthcare mainstream, requires more than just providing insurance.
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This is the case at Steyer's NextGen Rising and at George Soros's Democracy Alliance, which used to have an annual $5 million Latino engagement fund—until two years ago, when it was overhauled and given a new mission: to support Latino, African American, Native American, Pacific Islander, and LGBT groups.
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In her lawsuit, she asserts that she was deterred from applying to the internship because she is not a member of an underrepresented group, "including, but not limited to, individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander descent," as the program guidelines state on the Getty's website.
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"Their rights are being violated across the world and they are also among the ones being hit the most and the quickest by the climate and environmental emergency," she said at a December United Nations climate summit before relinquishing the microphone to Native American, Philippine, Pacific Islander and Ugandan activists.
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When the original "Hawaii Five-0," which ran on CBS from 1968 to 1980, was re-envisioned, it would have made all the sense in the world to cast the central partnership in a way that reflected the state's population, which is more than half Asian, native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander.
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In fact, studies have found that 56 percent of Filipinas and 85033 percent of Indian and Pakistani women in the U.S. have reported experiencing sexual violence during their lifetime — and 21 to 55 percent of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women report having experienced some form of gender-based violence.
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That has created a new opportunity in Georgia, where you have economic capacity growing at an incredibly fast clip, at the same time that you have this extraordinary diversity that is very new to the deep south, because this is a diversity of African American, Latino, Asian Pacific Islander and white.
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Also, please use other mythology... I'd like to see stuff set in Babylonian mythos, in Pacific Islander mythos, in North American indigenous mythos, that isn't exploitative and dismissive, but driven with the same weight of importance, without the slightest bit of irony that brings us a game like the new God of War.
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AAPI candidates added to their gain from 2900, when Tammy DuckworthLadda (Tammy) Tammy DuckworthDemocrats ignore Asian American and Pacific Islander voters at their peril Republicans grumble over Trump shifting military funds to wall Lawmakers mark anniversary of Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech MORE (D-Ill.) and Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Defense bill talks set to start amid wall fight Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity MORE (D-Calif.) were elected to the U.S. Senate and Pramila JayapalPramila JayapalPelosi woos progressives on prescription drug pricing plan Democrats ignore Asian American and Pacific Islander voters at their peril Overnight Health Care: Watchdog details severe trauma suffered by separated children | Judge approves B CVS-Aetna merger | House Dem Caucus chair backs 'Medicare for All' MORE (D-Wash.) and Stephanie MurphyStephanie MurphyDemocrats ignore Asian American and Pacific Islander voters at their peril Blue Dog Democrats urge action on election security Lawmakers urge DNC to name Asian American debate moderator MORE (D-Fla.) to the U.S. House, leading to a record high 220006 AAPI members of Congress, with three senators and 2202 representatives.
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Former President Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 85033 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE will address members of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community at a Las Vegas forum on Friday.
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But among all racial and ethnic groups surveyed, individuals identifying as Asian-Pacific Islander Americans demonstrated the highest level of support for both same-sex marriage (75 percent) and for laws that would protect L.G.B.T. people from discrimination in jobs, public accommodations and housing (73 percent, four percentage points more than Americans over all).
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"It's been a struggle for so many — they pay their taxes, they do what they're supposed to do, but they can't have a job in the police force and do other things because they're not citizens," said Susi Lafaele, co-founder of the Southern Utah Pacific Islander Coalition, one of four plaintiffs in the case.
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Stephanie MurphyStephanie MurphyPelosi to introduce plan to lower cost of prescription drugs: report Democrats ignore Asian American and Pacific Islander voters at their peril Blue Dog Democrats urge action on election security MORE (Fla.), co-chair of the center-right Blue Dog Democrats, said after a meeting with Pelosi Tuesday on the proposal, NPR noted.
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Here's a list of what women by other racial groups make compared to white men, and their Equal Pay Day for 2020: Asian American and Pacific Islander women: February 11, $0.92Black women: August 13, $0.62 Native American women: October 1, $0.57Latina women: November 2, $0.54 The good news is that the overall gender wage gap is closing.
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Latinas earned only 54 cents for every man's dollar, black women 73 cents, Native American women 57 cents, white women 75 cents, Asian-American and Pacific Islander women experienced a smaller wage gap on average, but still made 87 cents on average for every dollar made by men, with some subgroups experiencing much bigger wage gaps.
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Pramila JayapalPramila JayapalPelosi woos progressives on prescription drug pricing plan Democrats ignore Asian American and Pacific Islander voters at their peril Overnight Health Care: Watchdog details severe trauma suffered by separated children | Judge approves B CVS-Aetna merger | House Dem Caucus chair backs 'Medicare for All' MORE (D-Wash.), a co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
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LAS VEGAS — No Democratic candidate for president can win the nomination without the overwhelming support of voters of color, and Nevada — with its nearly 30 percent Latino, 10 percent African-American, and about 9.5 percent Asian-American and Pacific Islander population — is the first contest to offer insight into which of the remaining all-white front-runners can earn it.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Justice Department said on Tuesday they had reached agreement with Toyota Motor Credit Corp for it to pay up to $21.9 million in restitution to thousands of African-American and Asian and Pacific Islander borrowers who paid higher interest rates than white borrowers for their auto loans, without regard to their creditworthiness.
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Ed Case of Hawaii made the comment to a crowd Tuesday at an event for Asian and Pacific Islander American members of the new Congress, according to a tweet posted by National Journal fellow Nicholas Wu. "I regret if my specific remarks to the national API community on my full absorption of their concerns caused any offense," Case said in a statement issued Wednesday.
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