Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Protesters shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times/TNS) (Jason ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author and podcaster Jeff Chang sits for a portrait in his home office in Berkeley, California, on Saturday, September 6, 2025.

In Water Mirror Echo, the journalist tells the story of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee’s rise to fame alongside the cultural history of Asian America. You write that Lee is “perhaps the most ...

Yes, Bruce Lee was the first Asian-American actor to ever have a lead role in a Hollywood film, and yes, his kicks were too fast for the cameras to follow during filming. But did you know that the ...

The first step was easy. A book editor, impressed by Jeff Chang‘s acclaimed 2005 cultural history of hip-hop, “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop,” asked if he’d consider writing a book on Bruce Lee, the martial ...

The first step was easy. A book editor, impressed by Jeff Chang‘s acclaimed 2005 cultural history of hip-hop, “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop,” asked if he’d consider writing a book on Bruce Lee, the martial ...

In spring 2024, Berkeley author and activist Jeff Chang had just completed the first draft of his Bruce Lee biography, "Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America," when he called in ...

On Monday after work, I felt myself spiraling into depression at the unraveling state of the nation. (An unfortunate byproduct of being so tuned into the news cycle.) So, I called my good friend, an ...