When Kwok-Ming Cheng went to a Whole Foods in New York City to pick up some pre-ordered sandwiches over the Fourth of July weekend, he wasn’t expecting to get tapped with a new nickname. “Are you ...

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Ching Chong Ling Long, UCLA’s new Chinese delivery service formed between students and Palace Seafood and Dim Sum. The idea was to have a hearty laugh at the truly racist rant made by a former student ...

Spoiler alert: Like many bad things in life, some of the first usages of the slur that we could find are from children's rhymes. When Kwok-Ming Cheng went to a Whole Foods in New York City to pick up ...