Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The National Book Award winners will be announced the evening of Wednesday, November 17th during the 72nd National Book Awards Ceremony. This event will be livestreamed and open to all, and will be a fundraiser for the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit literary arts organization.
Asian Americans are among the top candidates in elections next month in Boston, Cincinnati and Seattle.
Because some Sikh Americans are easily identified by their beards and turbans, they have a long history of being targeted by others looking for a scapegoat, reaching as far back as the 1907 riots in Bellingham, Washington, in which a mob of 600 white men attacked and drove 400 Sikh Americans out of town. However, … Read more
Nearly 40 years after Vincent Chin was killed, Asian Americans still face brutal violence due to xenophobia and racism. And activists say the lessons from his case are more relevant than ever.
The theoretical physicist talks about the book that even Albert Einstein couldn’t finish, the inner-workings of the multiverse and the long-sought effort to unite all the forces of nature in a single equation.
Funding Builds on $43 Million in State Grants That Will Help 362 Organizations and Bolster 872 Projects to Secure Communities Against Hate Crimes