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Tonight on Apex Express, Justine Lee talks to award-winning filmmaker and Bay-Area native Felicia Lowe about her documentary Chinese Couplets. The film is an intimate family story that explores the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on one family, over two centuries, in three countries, on four generations of women. For the entire month of … Continued
Tune into APEX Express on Thursday, February 11 at 7 p.m., when we talk with Steve Phillips, author of Brown is the New White, about how people of color in the United States are a progressive majority. Then, we discuss the Zika Virus. The World Health Organization has issued warnings across Asia and the Americas. … Continued
We spotlight how the tragic suicide of a young Dalit student and activist, Rohith Vemula, has catalyzed mass mobilizing across university campuses in India against heinous caste-based discrimination that continues to be a disturbing feature of Indian society. We also look at a recent court ruling in India that brings the country one step closer … Continued
On tonight’s APEX Express, University of San Francisco’s Professor of Law Bill Ong Hing discusses how the DREAM Act and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has impacted Asian immigrants. Two young API DREAMers who are part of ASPIRE, the first Pan-Asian undocumented immigrant led group in the country, talk about their experience and why the … Continued
On APEX Express, we pay tribute to poet Justin Chin, who died the morning before Christmas at age 46. Poet, educator, visionary, his loss is felt deeply. We are joined by Kirk Read, a writer and nurse and friend of Justin’s, along with friend Philip Huang. On APEX, we talk with New York City High School teacher … Continued
A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.
A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.
We hear from Paromita Shah from the National Lawyers Guild and Sasha W., from the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance about the ongoing hunger strikes spreading across the immigration detention system. Though a lot of people are striking, today we’re focusing on the Bangladeshi strikers. We also have a rebroadcast of an interview Marie and Salima … Continued
A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.
APEX Express has created a tradition for Thankstaking Day where we take you back to Center for Political Education‘s annual My Heroes Have Always Killed Colonizers event from Indigenous People’s Day, and this year, we keep it up. We celebrate these resisters to colonization with words and music from J. Theo (Decolonized Pinoy Poetry), Needa Bee (Spoken Word), Maya Chinchilla (Spoken … Continued
