Emil Guillermo

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Emil 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)

Harvard Let Itself and Gay Be Bullied

It’s telling that the most damning comments during the saga of the fallen ex-Harvard President Dr. Claudine Gay come from rabid fans of the twice-impeached, four-time criminally indicted man who wants to be a president again.

January 3, 2024

AntiSemitism? Stefanik Hearing Targeted Diversity

If you haven’t realized it yet, that congressional hearing last week that continues to make news wasn’t about solving antisemitism in America.

December 11, 2023

Harvard's Playing Catch-up, But Now it has a Plan

Last week, Harvard President Dr. Claudine Gay put together an email to her alumni community and to the world to make sure everyone knows where Harvard stands on antisemitism.

November 14, 2023

UNC-Chapel Hill Murder Case Exposes Model Minority Myth

A graduate student shooting his professor is not model minority behavior. But given the proliferation of gun violence in America, maybe it is.

September 2, 2023

Ending the Snowblind Admission of Legacies and Admitting the Legacies of Affirmative Action

Now that the Supreme Court has banned the use of race in college admissions for BIPOC applicants, shouldn’t the next step be to go after any admissions policy that shows a profound preference for one race in particular?

July 28, 2023

The Antidote to the Supreme Court Decision on Affirmative Action? The Essay Will Keep Us Talking About Race

So you want to go to Harvard? Tell your story. That hasn’t changed in 50 years. That’s how I got in.

June 30, 2023

Harvard's Asian American Matriculates, and my Solution to that "Fair Admissions" Lawsuit

As the Supreme Court is set to deliver an opinion in a lawsuit that claims Harvard’s process discriminates against Asian Americans, the school has produced a class that is more Asian, and more diverse in terms of race and class in its history.

May 22, 2023

Choosing or Dumping Harvard?

May 1st is the deadline date for students to decide which ivory tower suitor to accept. And the most newsworthy decision may be how many Asian Americans accept Harvard’s offer of admission.

April 19, 2023

Does That Filipino Harvard joke in the New Yorker Sound the Death Knell for Affirmative Action?

The anxiety level is rising. Harvard’s class of 2027 will be told if it’s thumbs up or down on March 30.

March 28, 2023

Sometimes History is Just History Important to All of Us

When the American is an African American in Asia, that’s a richness worth contemplating.

February 24, 2023

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