To the disappointment of many fans, Star Wars actress Kelly Marie Tran (Rose Tico) has deleted her Instagram posts and gone dark on the platform. Fans are speculating that the blackout was caused by...
Newnan is a small Georgia town with just 38,000 people. I know only two things about Newnan: a few of my friends from college called it home, and I pass it on my way to visit my mother. Newnan...
As a teenager growing up Texas, so much of my youth was spent trying to fit in. While this is something that most former teenagers can relate to, I was also a Chinese American teenager in a...
I was recently approached to work on a script. At first I was pretty excited about it. It was the brainchild of someone I’d worked with before, someone I liked and had worked well with on previous...
Kalpana Chawla was born into a culture that didn’t necessarily share the big plans she had for herself. Born in Karnal, India in 1961, the youngest of four, a future as wife and mother was expected...
Sajid Javid, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has revealed that census data suggests that 770,000 people living in England...
A few years ago I wrote regularly for a popular online publication. The topics I covered ran the gamut from food, to culture, to even local legends and folklore. What all my pieces had in common was...
To many people hearing the term, "model minority" sounds like a good thing. Why wouldn't you want to be the "model", the "best", the example that inspires others? If you are in the majority, it can...
The UK General Election in June of this year turned around with some quite unexpected results. One of these, on the other side of my city, was the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg being beaten...
There’s no way around it: Donald Trump’s “Great America” is a “White America”. This is nothing new (for Trump or frankly, US history). But with Trump’s ban on immigrants from largely...