Kimiko Hahn wins $100,000 award from Poetry Foundation for lifetime achievement
Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte and Kimiko Hahn are among this year’s winners of awards from the Poetry Foundation, which announced some of poetry’s most lucrative prizes
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Filipinos in Lahaina say they’ve been overlooked in wildfire response
Filipinos are the largest undocumented community in Hawaii, making up 46% of that population. They say they don’t feel they’re being heard.
For Ava Chin, All Roads Lead to Mott Street
Her father’s absence when she was growing up made half of Ava Chin’s family history a family mystery. But when she finally met him in Chinatown, in her twenties, it sparked a years-long quest that not only uncovered her own family’s remarkable story but revealed the much deeper history of exclusion that defined the Chinese … Read more
Anaheim Union High School District Launches Korean American Studies Course
For the past three years, Jeff Kim worked with district leaders in Anaheim Union High and scholars of Korean American history — many of whom are based in Southern California — to pioneer the first high school course dedicated to Korean American history.
Dorothy Casterline, Who Codified American Sign Language, Dies at 95
She collaborated with two professors at Gallaudet University on the first ASL dictionary, laying the groundwork for a flourishing in Deaf identity over the last 50 years.
Maui Disaster Relief
On Tuesday, August 8, 2023, wildfire devastated the island of Maui, in particular the historic town of Lahaina, a place of cultural significance and once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawai‘i. As of August 21, 2023, at least 114 deaths have been confirmed and around 850 people are still missing. Please make a donation … Read more