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Love Letters to Movement Leaders: Mabel Ping-Hua Lee

As we vote on Election Day we remember Mabel Ping-Hua Lee who fought for women's suffrage despite racism and patriarchy preventing her and other women of color from becoming full citizens and voting for decades.

By Laura Li

  • Asian American man in tan trench coat with eyes closed holds a microphone speaking passionately

    THE DAY AFTER

    culture • Nov 7, 2018 • By Beau Sia

    Beau Sia writes a poem showing how our communities are moving forward after Election Day Read More

  • Love Letters to Movement Leaders: Mabel Ping-Hua Lee

    communities • Nov 5, 2018 • By Laura Li

    As we vote on Election Day we remember Mabel Ping-Hua Lee who fought for women's suffrage despite racism and patriarchy preventing her and other women of color from becoming full citizens and voting for decades. Read More

  • Our AAPI Vote is Critical

    communities • Oct 18, 2018 • By Laura Li

    Asian Americans won the right to vote as American citizens in 1952 -- only 66 years ago. And it’s time to put that right into action. In this moment in history, our democracy is under attack, and our votes are critical. Read More

  • Stepping into Echoes of the Past

    communities • Apr 23, 2018 • By Taz Ahmed

    After the Muslim Ban was released, people kept talking about how we won’t let history repeat itself. It’s hard to believe it when this part of American history has been easily buried. Read More

  • 18MillionRising.org and JACL tell Amazon that our history is not for sale

    releases • Apr 12, 2018

    18MillionRising.org and JACL ask Amazon to remove photos and items of Japanese American incarceration marketed as timeless images for home decor Read More

  • Love Letters to Movement Leaders: Larry Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz, Pete Velasco & manongs

    communities • Mar 31, 2018 • By Laura Li

    As we celebrate Cesar Chávez's birthday we celebrate all of you because we recognize that his legacy was made possible largely in part by the Filipino manongs of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee. Read More

  • A flier reading ICE's Virtual Dragnet and a picture of a passport

    Perpetual Foreigners in ICE's Virtual Dragnet

    ideas • Feb 21, 2018 • By Laura Li

    As Asian Americans we know that our communities and other communities of color are going to be specifically targeted because citizenship status has never protected us from being treated like we’re enemies or foreigners. Read More

  • Love Letters to Movement Leaders: Grace Lee Boggs

    communities • Feb 14, 2018 • By Laura Li

    Dear Grace Lee Boggs, Now more than ever, we need your vision of radical love, one that pushes us to support and affirm ourselves by breaking free of the old categories that have always defined us by what oppresses us. Read More

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