Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
How is it that it took the confluence of a global pandemic and the rapid escalation of anti-Asian hate to finally bring community conversations about the mental health of Asian Americans into the open?
Alvin Eng’s latest work, “Our Laundry, Our Town” is a prose-style memoir of his life, from his childhood in Flushing to his productions on the Downtown Stage and beyond.
In celebration of Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage month, Eyewitness News profiles a high-ranking New York officer from China and CUNY alum, who is making an effort to enrich the department with more diversity and representation.
To discuss the importance of AAPI Heritage Month, CBS2’s Dana Tyler was joined by Frank Wu, president of Queens College, City University of New York. He’s an author, legal scholar and the first person of Asian descent to lead the college.
Eighty years later, Berk is part of an art installation at the Japanese American National Museum that uses augmented reality to open a window into the eviction of 120,000 Japanese Americans and immigrants from their homes.
Overall, about six-in-ten Asian adults (63%) say violence against Asian Americans in the U.S. is increasing, while 19% say there has not been much change and 8% say it is decreasing. This is down somewhat since last year, when 81% of Asian Americans said violence against them was increasing.