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.

Not even the most decorated and honorable military service can protect U.S. war veterans from ruthless immigration laws.

Obama would be an easy target for King, says commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Under Obama, one in three blacks is poor, and the president doesn't appear to be plannning to do anything about it.

On Jan. 4, longtime U.S. government critic Lorenzo Baca became the first Native American spiritual leader to offer prayer for the 2010 decennial census, by performing a sunrise ceremony at the northern foot of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid apologized profusely for his unguarded quip that Obama’s light skin and non-Negro dialect put him in good standing with him and by implication with other whites. NAM's Earl Ofari Hutchinson argues Reid spoke the awful truth that millions did give Obama a racial pass.

When does one dead Hollywood actor trump another? When does one fierce dead organizer against social injustices trump another? In fact, when does a dead chimp responsible for a hideous attack catapult himself above the life of a dead Mexican anthropologist with over 150 books and articles filled with archaeological and cultural studies about Mayan civilization?

More than 4,000 Hmong were forcibly repatriated from Thailand to communist Laos. They are dubbed the "leftovers" – those who did not make the cut to come to America when the main camp at Wat Tham Krabok shut down in 2004.

Japanese anime is becoming increasingly popular with American kids who are drawn to its darker, more complex world view. These stories reflect ancient eastern sensibilities that are rooted in human suffering rarely known in the land of “happily ever after.”

Wild orchids and painted pine cones. These things I remember of Christmas in Vietnam. It was in Dalat, the mountain city with its persistent fog and whispering pine forests, that I first celebrated Christmas. My father had been transferred there after the 1968 Tet offensive, and he brought the entire family with him.

Vietnamese Americans dream of a new urban farm in New Orleans but fear post-Katrina environmental hazards. Urban farming was key to helping the Vietnamese American community become among the first to return to flood-ravaged homes and restart their lives after Katrina.

Even if Prime Minister Najib Razak is in Copenhagen for the high-level segment of the U.N. conference on climate change, there has been precious little meaningful debate on the subject here in Malaysia.

Malalai Joya has taken on the Taliban and warlords in Afghanistan. Now she is taking on the new occupiers - the United States and NATO.

As President Obama sends more U.S. troops into Afghanistan, we must realize that the Vietnam syndrome cannot be kicked through acts of war. More soldiers and bombs and droids in the sky will never appease the haunting ghosts of the past. Quite the opposite. We are in the process of creating more ghosts to haunt future generations.