Terry Tang image, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

TERRY TANG

National race and ethnicity writer

Tang reports on race and ethnicity issues, including Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, for The Associated Press. She is based in Phoenix and previously covered breaking news in the Southwest.

This image provided by Mattel in April 2024 shows the company's Kristi Yamaguchi Barbie doll. Yamaguchi became the first Asian American to win an individual gold medal for figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics. (Mattel via AP)

Olympian Kristi Yamaguchi is ‘tickled pink’ to inspire a Barbie doll

Like many little girls, a young Kristi Yamaguchi loved playing with Barbie. So, it’s surreal for the decorated Olympian figure skater to now be a Barbie girl herself.

FILE - The sun shines through clouds over wildfire wreckage in Lahaina, Hawaii, Aug. 10, 2023. A dangerous mix of conditions appear to have combined to make the wildfires blazing a path of destruction in Hawaii particularly damaging, including flash drought, high winds, low humidity and dry vegetation. According to a new poll, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are slightly more likely than the overall adult population to believe in human-caused climate change. The recent poll from AAPI Data and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 84% of AAPI adults agree climate change exists. In comparison, 74% of all U.S. adults hold the same sentiment. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in US more likely to believe in climate change: AP-NORC poll

Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are slightly more likely than the overall adult population to believe in human-caused climate change.

This image released by Warner Bros. Discovery shows Phanxine in a scene from the HBO television mini series "The Sympathizer." (Hopper Stone/Warner Bros. Discovery via AP

In war saga ‘The Sympathizer,’ Vietnamese voices are no longer stuck in the background

For decades, Vietnamese people often been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War.

Khenpo Paljor, a Tibetan lama from Des Moines, Iowa, leads a prayer at the Birthplace of Antioch marker, Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Antioch, Calif. Participants of the event titled “May We Gather” placed traditional Tibetan scarves on the marker as they prayed for peace and harmony. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vasquez)

Buddhists use karmic healing against one US city’s anti-Asian legacy and nationwide prejudice today

A group of Buddhist faith leaders and community members gathered in the city of Antioch, California, for the “first national Buddhist memorial service and pilgrimage in response to anti-Asian hate.”

Buddhist faith leaders and community members drape Tibetan prayer scarves on the Birthplace of Antioch marker during the "May We Gather" pilgrimage, Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Antioch, Calif. The event aimed to use karmic cleansing through chants, prayer and testimony to heal racial trauma caused by anti-Chinese discrimination in Antioch in the 1870s. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vasquez)

A California city wrestles with its history of discrimination against early Chinese immigrants

Over the last two years, the quiet city of Antioch, California, has been wrestling with its long and complicated history of discrimination against early Chinese immigrants during the gold rush.

Melissa Blackhair speaks of daylight savings time, Monday, March 4, 2024, from her home in Tuba City, Ariz. Blackhair lives along a stretch of highway that is the de facto border between the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservations and two time zones. Mind-bending time calculations is what people in the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. have to endure every March through November. The Navajo Nation, which stretches into Utah and New Mexico, will reset clocks for one hour later despite the rest of Arizona remaining on standard time. (AP Photo/Matt York)

The US is springing forward to daylight saving. For Navajo and Hopi tribes, it’s a time of confusion

For residents of the Navajo Nation, the beginning of daylight saving time means the beginning of an annual headache.

Chassity Coston, left, and Charity Wallace pose outside Harvard Yard at Harvard University, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. With attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives raging on, Black women looking to climb the work ladder are seeing a landscape that looks more hostile than ever. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Black women struggle to find their way in a job world where diversity is under attack

With attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives raging, Black women looking to climb the corporate ladder face a more hostile landscape than ever.

FILE - Hydeia L. Broadbent, 14, speaks after receiving an Essence Award during the taping of the 1999 Essence Awards in New York on Friday, April 30, 1999. Broadbent, who was born with HIV and has been living with full-blown AIDS since age 5, has become a powerful spokesperson and AIDS activist. Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist known for her inspirational talks in the 1990s as a young child to reduce the stigma surrounding the virus she was born with, has died. She was 39. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)

HIV/AIDS activist Hydeia Broadbent, known for her inspirational talks as a young child, dies at 39

A prominent HIV/AIDS activist known for her inspirational talks in the 1990s as a young child to reduce the stigma surrounding the virus she was born with has died.

FILE - Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Nikko Remigio catches a ball after NFL football training camp July 28, 2023, in St. Joseph, Mo. Historically, Asian Americans and have been stereotyped as more brains than brawn or "foreigners" not fit for some American sports. Many current and former athletes of Asian American as well as Pacific Islander heritage agreed that such misconceptions have mostly faded. Increasingly, major athletes have been able to amplify their culture on a public stage and be embraced by the public. (AP Photo/Charlie Riede, File)

How Asian American and Pacific Islander athletes in the NFL express their cultural pride

Historically, Asian Americans have been stereotyped as more brains than brawn or “foreigners” when it comes to sports like football.

FILE - With the U.S Capitol in the background, demonstrators rally during the March on Washington for Gaza at Freedom Plaza in Washington, Jan. 13, 2024. About half of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. believe the country is giving too much support of Israelis and not enough for Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza, according to a new poll that shows those views are dominant among young adults. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Half of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders want more US support of Palestinians, a poll shows

About half of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. believe the country is giving too much support of Israelis and not enough for Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza.

FILE - Customers shop for produce in the Chinatown neighborhood of Philadelphia, July 22, 2022. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States are somewhat more optimistic than the overall adult population about their personal finances, but recent polling shows the outlook isn't quite as sunny when it comes to keeping up with household expenses or unexpected medical costs. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

US Asians and Pacific Islanders worry over economy, health care costs, AP-NORC/AAPI data poll shows

A majority of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States call their personal financial situation good.

FILE - The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial with the Washington Monument in the background on Jan. 21, 2019, in Washington. In a nod to Martin Luther King's historic 1963 March on Washington, several Muslim American groups have organized what they are calling a "March on Washington for Gaza" to call for a ceasefire in the region. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

War in Gaza and US election factor into some of the many events planned for MLK holiday

As communities across the U.S. celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday this weekend, some people are taking a cue from the civil rights icon’s history of protest amid the war in Gaza and the looming presidential election.

This image released by Netflix shows Sam Song Li as Bruce Sun, Michelle Yeoh as Mama Sun in an episode of "The Brothers Sun." (Netflix via AP)

In ‘The Brothers Sun,’ Michelle Yeoh again leads an immigrant family with dark humor — but new faces

Sam Song Li only got his SAG-AFTRA card two years ago. Now, he is acting opposite Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh in an all-Asian cast in the new Netflix series, “The Brothers Sun.”

David Rasavong stands by a mural depicting his family's journey from Laos to San Francisco and then to Fresno, in his restaurant "Love & Thai" in Fresno, Calif. on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. Rasavong's body still tenses up when recounting how a so-called animal welfare crusader in May implied on social media that his 7-month-old restaurant, Tasty Thai, owned a pitbull tied up at a home next door. What's more, the dog would eventually be meal fodder. By the next day, vitriolic comments, voicemails and calls rained down. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

California restaurant’s comeback shows how outdated and false Asian stereotype of dog-eating persists

A Thai restaurant in Fresno, California, is back in operation after being wrongfully accused of abusing a dog to turn it into meat.

FILE - Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake talks in the Spin Room after former President Donald Trump held a campaign rally, Nov. 8, 2023, in Hialeah, Fla. On Thursday, Nov. 30, a judge rejected Lake’s request to examine signed ballot envelopes of 1.3 million early voters, giving the defeated Arizona Republican candidate for governor another loss in her third trial related to last year’s election. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Kari Lake loses suit to see ballot envelopes in 3rd trial tied to Arizona election defeat

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has rejected Kari Lake’s request to examine signed ballot envelopes of 1.3 million early voters, giving the defeated Arizona Republican candidate for governor another loss in her third trial related to last year’s election.

Arizona officials who refused to canvass election results indicted by grand jury

Arizona’s top prosecutor says officials in a rural county who delayed canvassing the 2022 general election results have been criminally charged.

FILE - A person holds a sign and attends a rally to support stop AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) hate at the Logan Square Monument in Chicago, on March 20, 2021. Despite ongoing efforts to combat anti-Asian racism that arose after the pandemic, a third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders say they have experienced an act of abuse based on their race or ethnicity in the last year. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

1 in 3 US Asians and Pacific Islanders faced racial abuse this year, AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll shows

Despite ongoing efforts to combat anti-Asian racism that arose after the pandemic, a third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders say they have experienced an act of abuse based on their race or ethnicity in the last year.

Writer Curtis Chin poses for a portrait to promote his new book "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir," Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Los Angeles. Chin's memoir, out today, is a candid and sometimes funny reflection on growing up Chinese American in Detroit in the ’70s and ’80s. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

A new memoir serves up life lessons from a childhood in a Chinese restaurant

Curtis Chin has been championing other Asian Americans for over 30 years. He co-founded the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

FILE - Homes and other structures are seen in Monument Valley, Ariz., on the Navajo reservation, April 19, 2020. Monument Valley and various other parks on the Navajo Nation will be closed Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, due to the "Ring of Fire" solar eclipse. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

In many Indigenous cultures, a solar eclipse is more than a spectacle. It’s for honoring tradition

A rare annular solar eclipse will be visible Saturday in eight western U.S. states, along with parts of Central and South America.

This image provided by the Philippine Department of Tourism shows Fort Santiago, Intramuros, Manila in 2022. The Philippines has long been interested in attracting Filipinos in the U.S. to come and add to the economy, but its incentives have mostly drawn retirees or immigrants catching up with relatives. Today, they are honing in on young Filipino American professionals who live on TikTok and Instagram. (Bien Bautista/Philippine Department of Tourism via AP)

The Philippines aims at a younger generation of Filipino American travelers

The Philippines has a long history of trying to attract Filipino American citizens and their families to come and add to the economy.

Former Arizona Republican governor candidate Kari Lake sits in court at Maricopa County Superior Court during a voting records trial Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)

At Kari Lake’s 3rd trial related to Arizona election, county makes case to protect ballot signatures

An election official and lobbyists were among the witnesses Maricopa County attorneys brought out the first day of a trial in another lawsuit filed by Kari Lake, the defeated Republican in last year’s Arizona governor’s race.

FILE - This combo images shows New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, left, and Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, right. Trade missions took Lujan Grisham and counterpart Hobbs to the self-governing island of Taiwan that China would like to see reunited with the mainland. (AP Photo, File)

State governors from Arizona, New Mexico seek stronger economic ties with Taiwan

Governors from the Southwestern United States are pursuing stronger business ties with Taiwan in hopes of attracting new foreign investments and jobs to their landlocked states.

FILE - Dancers with the Ballet Folklorico De San Antonio carry flags from different Latin countries as they participate in a ceremony celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month before an NFL football game between the Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys, Sept. 25, 2016, in Arlington, Texas. Hispanic history and culture take center stage across the U.S. for National Hispanic Heritage Month. The celebration recognizes contributions made by Hispanic Americans, the fastest-growing racial or ethnic minority according to the Census, and with a U.S. population of over 63 million people, there will be a plethora of Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations all over the country starting Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

National Hispanic Heritage Month highlights cultural diversity of Spanish-speaking Americans

Hispanic history and culture take center stage across the U.S. for National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Lawyers argue indicted Backpage employees sought to keep prostitution ads off the site

Attorneys say a former executive and two operations managers for the classified site Backpage.com on trial in Phoenix worked vigorously to keep the platform free of ads for prostitution even as strategies on how to do so constantly shifted.

Artist Thomas "Breeze" Marcus attends an exhibition opening of his work at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, N.M. on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, including the painting titled "Answered Prayer," backgound. A separate group exhibition that included his work was postponed in Arizona amid outrage over a painting by Shepard Fairey that is critical of police. It's the latest of several recent incidents around the U.S. where artists in public spaces have had the rug pulled out from under them because of the content of their work. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

Artists want complete control over their public exhibitions. Governments say it’s not that simple

Collaboration between art and government sometimes breeds conflict. The postponement of a Mesa, Arizona, art exhibition over a perceived anti-police work by artist Shepard Fairey is the latest in a recent series of conflicts in city-run art shows.

Arizona superintendent to use COVID relief for $40 million tutoring program

Arizona is channeling $40 million in federal COVID-19 relief funding toward tutoring students falling behind in school.

FILE - Former Backpage.com owner Michael Lacey sits on Capitol Hill in Washington at a Senate committee. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, jury selection is scheduled to start in Lacey's federal trial on charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money in what authorities say was a scheme to knowingly sell ads for sex on the classified site. Lacey, whose first trial on those charges ended in a mistrial, has pleaded not guilty to the charges. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Opening statements begin in website founder’s 2nd trial over ads promoting prostitution

Federal prosecutors in Phoenix say a founder of the classified ad site Backpage.com and four employees carefully strategized how to bring in ads for prostitution to maintain their top-earning platform.

Carol Giuliani, who is a member of the Dementia-Friendly Airports Working group and works as a travel companion for seniors with dementia, walks through Terminal 3 at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after bringing a client from Minnesota Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Phoenix. “Ninety percent of the time it’s a family member that hires me,” said Giuliani, while seated at Phoenix Sky Harbor after escorting an elderly man on a flight. “The one I did today, (the wife) was like ‘thank you, thank you, thank you!’... I know how to pace it so that he gets safely and comfortably back home.” (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Some US airports strive to make flying more inclusive for those with dementia

With over 14 million people expected to check into airports nationwide for Labor Day weekend, a number of them inevitably will be travelers with dementia or some sort of cognitive impairment.

FILE - Vina Morales arrives at the World Premiere of "Easter Sunday" in Los Angeles on Aug. 2, 2022. Morales will take over as Aurora Aquino in the Broadway musical “Here Lies Love” for a month-long engagement starting Sept. 22. She replaces Lea Salonga ,who has been with the show since previews in June. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Vina Morales replaces Lea Salonga in Broadway’s ‘Here Lies Love’ to spotlight Filipino stars

As Tony Award winner Lea Salonga prepares to depart the first ever all-Filipino cast Broadway cast this week, her role will become a revolving door to showcase other well-known talent from the Philippines.

President Joe Biden speaks before signing a proclamation designating the Baaj Nwaavjo I'Tah Kukveni National Monument at the Red Butte Airfield Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Tusayan, Ariz. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden creates new national monument near Grand Canyon, citing tribal heritage, climate concerns

President Joe Biden has signed a national monument designation for the greater Grand Canyon, declaring it good “not only for Arizona but for the planet.”