At Queens’s Noguchi Museum, Banners by Asian Artists Address Racism
Chemin Hsiao, winner of the museum’s Open Call for Artist Banners, and runners-up Woomin Kim and Mo Kong discuss their designs with Hyperallergic.
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Asian-American representation in politics after a historic election
Earlier this month, history was made across the country when Boston, Seattle and Cincinnati all elected Asian-American mayors, a step towards political representation for a traditionally underrepresented community. State Representative Tram Nguyen and Paul Watanabe, Director for the Institute for Asian-American Studies at UMass Boston, joined Sue OConnell to discuss.
Anti-Asian Hate Is Still On The Rise, Almost 2 Years Into The Pandemic
Nearly 20% of AAPI people say they’ve experienced a racist incident in the past year, according to a new survey from the coalition Stop AAPI Hate.
CCNY atmospheric scientist Z. Johnny Luo is co-project leader of a $177 million NASA mission to study thunderstorms
The City College of New York’s latest NASA collaboration is a $177 million earth science mission to study the behavior of tropical storms and thunderstorms, including their impact on weather and climate models. The mission will be a collection of three SmallSats flying in tight coordination, called Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS), and scheduled for … Read more
Opinion | Is It Time to Abandon the Idea of an ‘Asian American’ Identity?
Two Asian Americans question the term and its value.
New York State Must Recognize Eid: A CUNY Student’s Vision
Queens resident Tanbir Chowdhury (20) is leading student activism in his efforts to have Eid recognized as official New York state holidays. The two Eid days (Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha) are the most important religious holidays for Muslims across the world.