Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Dale Minami, Fred Korematsu’s lead counsel in his 1983 coram nobis case, Alan Nishio, former Southern California co-chair of what was then the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations, Karen Umemoto, director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Kyodo Taiko, and Bombu Stories will be featured during the 53rd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, to … Read more
UPenn’s Amy Wax appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show and said Black and Asian people are resentful toward “Western peoples’ outsized achievements.”
The specifics are difficult to determine because all Asian communities are grouped together under the same race category in the census. This conceals the wide variety of income, education and health backgrounds between subgroups and tends to blur characteristics unique to certain communities, some advocates said. It may also perpetuate the “model minority” myth of … Read more
Interesting facts about the Asian American and Pacific Islander population gathered by the Census Bureau.
“The purpose of the service was to acknowledge that the whole community was impacted,” the CEO of Immigrant Welcome Center said. “It was a space to pray and to ask for healing.”
Asian American and Pacific Islander LGBTQ youths who experience racism also report higher levels of attempting suicide, a new report says.