Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Ayesha Khan, a member of The City College of New York’s Class of 2023, has been named a Harry S. Truman Scholar. She is one of 62 exceptional students from 60 U.S. colleges and universities selected as 2023 Scholars by the Board of Trustees of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
Less than 100 four-year universities offer a Latino studies major, the same for other ethnic and racial groups, a new study shows.
The Indian caste system, which dates back three thousand years, divides Hindus by birth into four categories that determine their place in society. Brahmins, members of the highest caste, have historically served as priests and teachers. Dalits, who fall outside of the caste system, work as street sweepers and toilet cleaners.
Monday marks 50 years since the U.S. ended its nine-year bombing of Laos. Traditional textiles with missiles, grenades and attack planes offer a haunting glimpse of the attacks.
The president and CEO of Scholastic Books is acknowledging that the company was “wrong and not in keeping with Scholastic’s values” when it asked an author to remove references to racism in her story about her grandparents at the Minidoka Incarceration Camp.
In the process, [Ava Chin] uncovered a mysterious family history, taking in five generations of her own Chinese-American ancestors over the course of over 150 years as they tried to lay roots in the United States.