Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Lam Thuy Vo will take on a new role as as data-journalist-in-residence at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism beginning June 1. An adjunct at the school for seven years, she will work closely with the department head, Professor Sandeep Junnarkar, to further develop the data journalism curriculum. She will also teach in the fall … Read more
Many of the slain women of Asian descent were striving to make ends meet
The petition has received support from over 790 Dartmouth community members and professors at peer institutions.
“People question my patriotism, that I don’t look American enough,” Lee Wong, an elected official in an Ohio township, said at a recent public meeting.
“Things for Asians in this country have been bleak for the past two weeks — and all the weeks before that since forever,” Yang said on “Weekend Update.”
Writer Paula Yoo was 13 years old and finishing up seventh grade when Vincent Chin was killed. Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman who was celebrating his impending wedding at a strip club in Detroit, when he was bludgeoned to death by a pair of white men. Those men were apparently upset by their perception that … Read more