Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Chinese American swimmer Torri Huske won gold in the women’s 100 meter butterfly at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Sunday, after missing out on a medal in Tokyo by 1/100 of a second, NPR reports.
Lee Kiefer joins Mariel Zagunis (saber fencer) as the second U.S. fencer with two individual Olympic gold medals. She defeated her teammate Lauren Scruggs who took the silver medal in a one-two finish for Team USA. Kiefer fences for Bluegrass Fencers’ Club in Kentucky and is the first American woman or man to win gold … Read more
The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) is taking the lead in introducing The Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2024, aimed at making the health care system fair and more accessible to all.
A report by the Amnesty Commission acknowledged that 172 immigrants were sent to a concentration camp, where they were tortured from 1946 to 1948.
Adding a citizenship question to the census reduces the participation of people who aren’t U.S. citizens, particularly those from Latin American countries, according to a new research paper that comes as Republicans in Congress are pushing to add such a question to the census form.
Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Jojima is a respected Asian-Latin American curator, art historian, and educator, specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American art, with additional training in the history of photography.