More people are seeking U.S. citizenship than ever. More than 744,000 people were naturalized last year while just over a century ago, fewer than 8,000 people had that privilege, according to the US federal Web site.

President Obama might have tried to instill some hope and optimism with his State of the Union but a new poll of California voters finds they think the country and the state is off track.

The Field Poll queried California voters about what they felt about the state's growing diversity. Most saw advantages but many also understood it meant growing friction and adjustment pains.

A new survey finds that in California, the Tea Party has little resonance with minority voters. Most are not even aware of it.

Most Chinese Americans in California are pessimistic about the state’s economy but many also believe they're better off financially than others; and, a newly-launched regional news hub helps ethnic media in Louisiana expand online.

An extensive field poll on the Obama presidency yields surprising results, Taylor and Bessie Rogers of StoryCorps discuss seeing Martin Luther King in Memphis, and Betty Kamath is returning to a home for the elderly in India.

If Republicans want to build on Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts in historically blue California this fall, it will have to overcome the state GOP's inability to win over ethnic voters--or at least hope those voters stay home.

A recent CDC report may give Americans cause for cheer. It suggests that we have finally turned a corner in our fight against obesity, which has leveled off across most of the population -- except one group: 6- to 19-year-old boys.

According to a new multilingual voter survey by The Field Poll, one year into the Obama presidency, voters in the nation’s biggest minority-majority state are looking at their first minority president with increasing disappointment.

California residents are united across racial and ethnic lines in viewing the state’s economic landscape as bleak and their own financial situation as worse than the previous year, according to a new multilingual voter survey by The Field Poll.

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s characterization of then-candidate Barack Obama’s chances to win the presidency because he is a “light-skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect”—well, was right, says NAM's Jasymne Cannick. But that's not the whole story.

APALC representatives urge Asians and Pacific Islanders to put in for duty on the commission, which will draw new legislative seats based on 2010 census data.

California's Healthy Families program helps nearly one million children have access to health care. Now it might fall victim to budget cuts and federal health care reform.

Filipino and Korean women have a very high risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy, which may lead to childbirth complications, a recent study showed.

A growing number of Koreans -– both U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents -- is moving back to Korea in search of a better life.

Currently, legal immigrants, who work and pay taxes that contribute to our health care system will continue to be ineligible to receive federally-funded Medicaid services for five years.

Thanksgiving arrived early for Korean and Latino community members in Oakland, Calif. who gathered for a soccer match followed by a bountiful turkey dinner.

Stay home if you already have symptoms, but anyone who isn't feeling the effects and is not high-risk should go home for the holidays. Medical pros say you're as likely to catch H1N1 on a trip to the store as a long flight or bus ride.

A higher percentage of California's Latinos and African Americans value college education as a necessary path to success, compared to their Asian and white counterparts.

Pres. Barack Obama declared the H1N1 flu outbreak a national emergency, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a briefing for ethnic news media in order to debunk fears about flu shots and encourage mass vaccinations.

Seeing how Filipinos raved about Manny Pacquiao as a symbol of what, in the words of many a fan, “Filipinos are capable of achieving,” a friend asked me, “Aren’t Filipinos relying too much on Pacquiao to build their national self-esteem? That’s too much of a burden for one man to bear.”