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2026 AAIFF: CUNY Shorts Showcase

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Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 49th Asian American International Film Festival deal with topics/genres including: an intimate connection of hope and solidarity between a Filipino steward and a Black welder in 1940s Brooklyn, a Sikh MMA fighter navigating the balance between faith and the brutal world of combat sports, a golden but challenged friendship between a Jewish girl and a Muslim girl in Jerusalem, and an immigrant woman examining her past, identity, and regrets in the wake of her American ex-boyfriend’s death.

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AAPIs blast new Trump orders restricting birthright citizenship

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In Trump’s latest executive order, children born to parents from countries designated as enemy aliens would not qualify for birthright citizenship. NAPABA said the restriction conjures up memories of the incarceration of 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry, most of whom were American citizens.

2026 AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Japan Studies Grant

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The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Japan-US Friendship Commission, supports a variety of grant programs in Japanese studies designed to facilitate the research of individual scholars, to improve the quality of teaching about Japan on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study … Read more

Science Spotlight: Fighting a Scourge

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Ph.D. candidate Zubaida Marufee Islam seeks to root out rotavirus with research that may help identify new targets for treating the stealthy killer.

2026 AAPI Voters Data and Narrative Toolkit

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This toolkit provides a standardized, evidence-based, and field-tested set of facts and messaging resources that can help community organizations, news media, funders, and other relevant stakeholders to better understand and engage AAPI communities. 

Asian Americans find opportunity and community in the South

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According to the U.S. Census, the number of Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders moving to the South between 2020 and 2025 grew by 6% with a total of 5,658,312 in these six states along – Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.