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This is a collection of articles about mental health in the Filipino American community and the factors that influence it. Future stories will explore substance abuse and Catholicism. The project is supported by the Carter Center’s Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. The main writer for the project is freelance journalist Agnes Constante, a … Read more

A year after a sharp increase in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans — including an Atlanta-area shooting that left six Asian American women dead — a new foundation that prompted donors to pledge more than $1 billion has distributed nearly $10 million. Those grants have helped develop an Asian American history curriculum, support training to … Read more

Social Welfare Ph.D. candidate and Wellness Center Clinical Fellow Yasmine J. Awais shares four tips for managing stress and staying productive amid the pressures of grad school plus war abroad and a lingering pandemic.

Today, we honor the victims, their families, and the Atlanta community that has shown extraordinary resilience in the face of tragedy. While nothing we do can bring the victims back, their loss has compelled us to reckon with our nation’s long legacy of anti-Asian sentiment and gender-based violence, and recommit ourselves to delivering the full … Read more

The seven BMCC students—Khaldoun Albou Tay, Valentina Gomez Acacio, Danny Blakeman, Rajvinder Kaur, Yiyang Sun, Shauna-Kay Thomas and Karolina Wiesiolek—will find out in May who has been selected for the transfer scholarship which awards up to $55,000 annually for up to three years to complete a bachelor’s degree.

As we mark one year since the tragic Atlanta spa shootings and two years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the Asian American Journalists Association has updated their guidance on coverage of violence against Asian Americans based on input from AAJA’s Media Watch, Broadcast Advisory Council, and AAJJ membership at-large.