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The film star had a trailblazing career, but also struggled to secure meaningful roles as an Asian American actress in Hollywood a century ago.

Now, as violence against AAPI people continues to surge nationwide, a new one-hour documentary on PBS chronicles the troubling escalation of hate and spotlights the movement to turn grief and anger into action.

In honor of October as Filipino American History Month, the Asian Journal spoke to several Fil-Ams working across the administration — from the Executive Branch to various agencies that keep the country running.

Congresswoman Grace Meng on Monday, Oct. 3, toured Queens College’s Wastewater Epidemiology Training Laboratory (WETLAB), a project that she made possible with $1,850,000 in federal funding to develop strategies to detect dangerous pathogens — such as COVID-19, influenza, polio and monkeypox — in wastewater. 

Report by advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate links a rise in inflammatory language to an increase in hate crimes against Asian-Americans

Scholars and curators are beginning to focus on long-overlooked Asian American artists, acknowledging their importance in the narrative of American art.