Month: May 2021

The fishing village in marshlands of present-day Louisiana was settled by the so-called Manilamen as early as 1763.

Professors of Asian heritage at U.S. colleges and universities have faced daunting challenges in the past year, and those struggles have intensified in recent months as violence and hate incidents against Asian Americans have escalated.

To celebrate and shed light on Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, CNBC Make It spoke to 12 AAPI leaders about how the model minority myth impacts them, the advice they have for the next generation of AAPI professionals and how the rising number of anti-Asian attacks over the past year has influenced them … Read more

In order to understand and combat AAPI hate, we must understand the many unique histories our communities bring to this movement today. We must untangle the policies and decisions through which we have been attacked, colonized, policed, banned, killed, displaced, and persecuted. This non-comprehensive timeline stretches from the Civil War through both World Wars. It … Read more

Asian American and Pacific Islanders in New York City have the highest rate of vaccination among adult residents with at least one Covid-19 shot, according to New York City’s Citywide Immunization Registry. However, community advocates say the achievement hides disparities that remain between groups that happen to fall under the same demographic umbrella.

Tough conversations about racism with people you care about can start with a simple line like, “Have you experienced something like this?”