Emil GuillermoEmil Guillermo is a print and broadcast journalist, commentator and humorist. His column, "Emil Amok," appeared for more than 14 years in AsianWeek at one time, and now appears on the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund site. As a former host of NPR's "All Things Considered" he was the first Asian American male, and first Filipino American, to host a regularly scheduled national news broadcast. He is the author of
Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective -- a compilation of essays originally published in Asian Week—that won an American Book Award in 2000. Emil Guillermo writes on issues of race, culture and politics for the
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (www.aaldef.org/blog)
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by Emil Guillermo | March 7, 2016
Late last week, Def Jam entrepreneur Russell Simmons announced he was supporting Hillary Clinto
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by Emil Guillermo | February 7, 2016
Monday, February 8, is the start of the Lunar New Year and, for Asian Americans of Chinese desc [...]
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by Emil Guillermo | January 10, 2016
Big-time college sports perpetuate a deeper racism, says sports agent. [...]
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by Emil Guillermo | November 15, 2015
An American Global tragedy: Nohemi Gonzalez was an example of diversity in higher ed at its bes [...]
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by Emil Guillermo | November 8, 2015
By now it may all be forgotten, but last Wednesday, as the news broke, it was shocking the enti [...]
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by Emil Guillermo | November 1, 2015
Anna Deavere Smith’s project seeks to help end “the school to prison pipeline and the effec [...]
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by Emil Guillermo | October 25, 2015
We’re heading into the last week and winding up Filipino American History Month. [...]
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by Emil Guillermo | October 18, 2015
When he heard Donald Trump spewing forth untruths about South Korea on the campaign, economics [...]
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by Emil Guillermo | October 11, 2015
The anxiety over guns in campus life has been a reality since the Virginia Tech massacre in 200 [...]
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by Emil Guillermo | October 5, 2015
If you want to understand how some of our best colleges and universities have become 20, 30, ev [...]
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by Emil Guillermo | September 27, 2015
For Rini Sampath, her American dream ran into the reality of racism. [...]
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by Emil Guillermo | September 20, 2015
If you haven’t paid attention to Pope Francis’ visit until now, this is the subject he’s [...]
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by Emil Guillermo | September 7, 2015
At California State University, Sacramento, faculty takes to an informational picket. [...]
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by Emil Guillermo | August 31, 2015
During the same week he had Univision anchor Jorge Ramos physically removed from a news confere [...]
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