Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Funding Builds on $43 Million in State Grants That Will Help 362 Organizations and Bolster 872 Projects to Secure Communities Against Hate Crimes
“They each have a place, but they don’t entirely encompass each of the others,” one activist said.
Everyone could use a little extra support processing their emotions and experiences after the year-plus we’ve had. However, over the past few years, there’s been an increase in discriminatory rhetoric towards people of various marginalized identities, like those in different communities of color and those who are LGBTQ+.
Award-winning poet and translator Don Mee Choi was sitting in front of the computer in her closet-size writing room when she got a life-changing call from the MacArthur Foundation.
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.