AAUC Podcast

In this October episode, we focus on the fall out of the 2020 census and redistricting with the goal of achieving fair ethnic representation at all local and federal levels. Should Asian Americans be concerned with redistricting or jerrymandering? Is redistricting just a partisan issue between Democrats and Republicans? Does it have any impact on Asian Americans in representing the districts they...

In this September episode, we focus on what is the global perspective for Asian Americans, the challenges we face, and how we can build our collective American Dream together. Asian American has an important role to play in bridging the widening gap between the US and the rise of Asia. How should we view ourselves and be viewed – is this dual identity an advantage or a burden? What is the global p...

In this August podcast, we focus on what makes up the Asian Americans, the challenges we face, and how we can build a collective American dream together. Asian American is the fastest-growing minority in the U.S. 2020 census. It has grown over 36% and constitutes roughly 7.2% or over 20 million of the total U.S. population. Who are Asian Americans and how it becomes the fastest-growing minority in...

In this increasingly individualized and polarized world, who doesn’t want peace and harmony in their lives? Is racial harmony just an ideal or can it be achieved? Does this Confucian Asian value of harmony elevate or harm us as Asian Americans? The flip side of harmony is distrust, hatred, strive, systemic discrimination, and injustice. How can these racial inequalities be leveled and racial distr...

Mental health and youth suicide is a serious issue in the AAPI community. The devastating news of a young love one taking his/her life touches almost everyone. There is insurmountable guilt and sadness in the survivors around the victim. To overcome this serious challenge, we need to understand the cause and what we can do as a community to prevent future attempts of youth suicide. For more inform...

In this podcast, we will focus on the hate crisis that our community faces due to COVID 19. When our innocent, respected seniors, vulnerable children, and women were being attacked, the urge to do good, to defend our community is hard to resist in each of us. It is heart-warming to see our Asian American community rises up, unites, and speaks out against hate. We, the silent minority can no longer...

The wellbeing of our community hinges on good healthcare which is an important building block in our collective American dream. In this podcast, we focus on the health crises in our AAPI community during the pandemic of COVID19. Our complex communities face double crises in being disproportionately infected and died as well as being stigmatized as the harbinger of the virus. We are combating the v...

AAUC’s third Podcast episode “Racial Profiling, a Threat to our American Dream” focuses on the “China Initiative”. We wish to first, however, acknowledge and condemn the recent Atlanta murders which is a traumatic blow to our entire country. We at AAUC join Asian Americans and all Americans in working to end racial violence, racial profiling, and racial discrimination. Although our episode tonight...

The Asian American Unity Coalition is proud to introduce a new podcast series titled “Building our Collective American Dream” with our second episode airing on Sunday, Feb 28 at 8:00 pm EST. Welcome to AAUC Podcast “Building our Collective American Dream” episode 2: “Entrepreneurship, A Pathway to the American Dream”. According to a 2019 report issued by The National Coalition for Asian Pacific Am...

In building our collective American Dream, AAUC recognizes having Asian American political representation is a crucial piece of the puzzle. Currently, there are three senators and 16 US congressional members with Asian American heritage. Among them, Senator Kamala Harris has resigned to become Vice president while four US congressional members and 30+ presidential appointees are of Indian American...