Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Fordham students will be able to minor in Asian American studies beginning this fall. The new minor will provide an interdisciplinary understanding of Asian American people and other members of the Asian diaspora, as well as a focus on Asian culture and history.
Hundreds of residents on Sunday, Aug. 20 celebrated the co-naming of 131st Street and Liberty Avenue in Richmond Hill as ‘Trinidad and Tobago Street,’ making it the first street to be named after the twin-island anywhere in the world.
The bill, originally introduced in 2022, aims to end deportations of Southeast Asian American refugees and give over 2,000 refugees who have already been deported to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia the right to return.
Yunte Huang, who has written two other books on Asian American cultural icons, said he is drawn to complex characters whose contradictions reflect the country’s fault lines.
Nearly two weeks after deadly wildfires rapidly swept through the island of Maui and destroyed much of the historic town of Lahaina, Hawaii officials announced Monday that some 850 people are still missing.
Lawmakers in 33 states have introduced 81 bills this year that would prohibit the Chinese government, some China-based businesses and many Chinese citizens from buying agricultural land or property near military bases, according to a Washington Post analysis of data compiled by the Asian Pacific American Justice, an advocacy group.