Patsy Matsu Mink was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii. She served in the United States House of Representatives for 24 years as a member of the Democratic Party, initially from 1965 to 1977, and again from 1990 until her death in 2002. She was the first woman of color and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress, and is known for her work on legislation advancing women's rights and education.
Official portrait, c. 1994
Mink with Lyndon Johnson after his trip to Hawaii for a conference on the Vietnam War, February 1966
1972 campaign poster image from the Patsy Mink for President Committee
Mink announcing the formation of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry. Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous peoples of the continent of Asia, the usage of the term "Asian" by the United States Census Bureau only includes people with origins or ancestry from the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent and excludes people with ethnic origins in certain parts of Asia, including West Asia who are now categorized as Middle Eastern Americans. Furthermore, Central Asians are not mentioned in any census racial category. The "Asian" census category includes people who indicate their race(s) on the census as "Asian" or reported entries such as "Chinese, Indian, Bangladeshi, Filipino, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Pakistani, Malaysian, and Other Asian". In 2020, Americans who identified as Asian alone (19,886,049) or in combination with other races (4,114,949) made up 7.2% of the U.S. population.
Five images of the Filipino settlement at Saint Malo, Louisiana
Jerry Yang, billionaire co-founder of the search engine Yahoo!. He is currently the founding partner of the venture fund AME Cloud Ventures
Steve Chen (middle), co-founder of YouTube.
Jensen Huang, billionaire, founder and CEO of Nvidia, the largest AI conglomerate and the third largest company in the world as of March 2024