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Mass Shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio

By August 4

On behalf of the entire Leaders Forum consortium, our hearts go out to the families of the victims in El Paso and Dayton. A sad day for the United States.

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Trump’s Asian trading partners will try to ride out the storm

By October 23

Nikkei Asian Review, 7/18/18
"Disrupter" may be the best word to describe U.S. President Donald Trump. The Cambridge Dictionary provides the following definition: "a person or thing that prevents something,

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Leader Forum New York featured an intimate discussion with Media Matters’ president Angelo Carusone. Here he explains how Facebook inadvertently became the “engine” of the fake news ecosystem

By February 25

Media Matter, 1/3/18
"One was that 25 percent of Americans consumed Facebook in the last -- fake news in the last six week of the election. So one out of

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Leaders Forum New York included a special private visit to the Strand bookstore by owner Nancy Bass, daughter of Fred Bass, who made the Strand bookstore a NY mecca. LF honors the recent passing of this visionary – Fred Bass was 89.

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The New York Times, 1/3/18
Building on what his father began, Mr. Bass ultimately oversaw a bustling emporium housing “18 miles of books” in Lower Manhattan, with outposts here and

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LF member Chieh Huang’s story. His e-commerce company went from $40,000 in sales from his parents’ garage to over $100 million in 3 years

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CNBC, 12/12/17
Starting a company out of your garage sounds exciting - invoking visions of Silicon Valley greats Hewlett Packard and Apple, and Jeff Bezos starting Amazon in his Seattle

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Leaders Forum acknowledges the passing of a great innovative leader- San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee

By December 12

CNN Politics, 12/12/17
San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee, a former civil rights attorney who became the first Asian-American to serve in the city's top post, died early Tuesday -- hours

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A New Study Shows Asian-American Law School Enrollment Has Dropped More Than 40 Percent

By August 16

Yahoo News, 7/26/17
“It does mean that the growth of Asian-Americans going into the profession is going to be slower ... so this is worrisome.” -Justice Goodwin Liu Read more

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The Uncomfortable Truth About Affirmative Action and Asian-Americans

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The New Yorker, 8/10/17
Since the nineties, the share of Asians in Harvard’s freshman class has remained stable, while the percentage of Asians in the U.S. population has more than doubled.

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Preaching the Gospel of Diversity, but Not Following It

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The New York Times, 12/17/16
Out of the 20-plus reporters who covered the presidential campaign for The New York Times, there were no Latinos or Asians and merely 2 were black.

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Airbnb host hit with a $5,000 fine for canceling on this Asian guest over her race

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Business Insider, 7/14/2017
In February, Airbnb host Tim Barker canceled on Dyne Suh, who drove through a snowstorm to get to his cabin in Big Bear, California. Baker said, "I wouldn't

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