Supporting India & Nepal During COVID Crisis
Donors around the world are giving money for meals, medical expenses, P.P.E. and oxygen tanks, among other essential supplies. Here’s how you can help.
Month: May 2021
The War Still Within: Poems of the Korean Diaspora
Part historical imagining of Japan’s so-called “comfort women” during World War II, part personal claiming of her own experiences with immigration and motherhood, and part exploration of identity across two languages, The War Still Within weaves together two cultures and gives voice to generations of Korean and Korean-American women.
FACT SHEET: President Biden Establishes the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
Today, President Biden will sign an Executive Order establishing the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, and delivering on the President’s commitment to reinstate and reinvigorate this historic Initiative.
To Stop Anti-Asian Racism, First Remedy Ignorance and Nationalism
On this episode of The Thought Project, Manu Bhagavan, professor of history at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Vivian Louie, professor of urban policy and planning and director of the Asian American Studies Program and Center at Hunter College, discuss the spike in hate crimes around the world, particularly the hatred and violence that … Read more
Biden appoints Krystal Ka’ai to lead expanded White House Initiative on AANHPIs
The president gives the longtime Capitol Hill staffer a broad mandate to address the crises ravaging Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.
Asian American legal groups look to Supreme Court as they pursue path to make history
WASHINGTON – As lawmakers quietly brace for a battle over the next opening on the Supreme Court, some in the Asian American legal community are already looking ahead to the vacancy after that – and what may be the next opportunity to make history.