In the early 90s, when I lived in Brooklyn, I used to rent movies from a video store on 7th Avenue in Park Slope. At that time, American audiences were coming in greater contact with Chinese cinema, particularly those movies created by the Fifth Generation of Chinese directors. Auteurs like Zhang Yimou, who filmed lush masterpieces …
Early last month, I tutored at The Great San Francisco Personal Statement Weekend 2010. The event was sponsored by 826 Valencia, and was part of a nation-wide 826 effort to help high school kids with their college essays. I worked with one girl, a Chinese-American immigrant, who was a stellar writer. (Most of the kids I …
Those words were uttered by a 17-year-old Vietnamese-American student in response to what has been described as racially motivated attacks against Asian students at a South Philadelphia High School in December. The following month, in South Hadley, MA, 15-year-old Phoebe Prince hanged herself after incessant physical, verbal and emotional abuse from classmates at her school. …
I recently came across this multimedia composition by the New Yorker artist and children’s book author Maira Kahlman: And The Pursuit of Happiness. I’ve described it as the perfect anthem for my Digital Media Literacy Slow Food Movement Movement. Ultimately, Kahlman believes a democracy would insure access to nutritious foods for all. Our democratic ideals …