Non-AAARI News

An old laundry building at Yosemite National Park will showcase the history of Chinese who built roads in the park and worked in Yosemite’s hotels as cooks and laundry workers.

Filipino American History Month is celebrated in October each year to commemorate the first recorded presence of Filipinos in the continental U.S.

The tragedies have laid bare the ways in which extreme weather events ravage decaying infrastructure, devastate low-income communities and deepen social inequality, leading to what experts call a “climate apartheid”.

Private Chen died by suicide at 19 after being hazed by fellow soldiers in Afghanistan. Ten years later, his family sought to uplift the community that raised him.

A majority of Asian American/Pacific Islander voters found the former president largely responsible for anti-AAPI discrimination during last year’s spike in violence amid the Covid pandemic. But that animus didn’t translate down the ballot, with a far lower percentage of AAPI voters saying the same about Republican lawmakers, according to the survey by POLITICO and … Read more

For many who made it to the United States, watching the chaotic exit from Afghanistan evoked memories of their own harrowing experiences.