Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
If the bill — which is co-sponsored by state Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz (D-Glenview) — passes the Senate, Illinois will become the first state to require the teaching of Asian American history in public schools.
Hate crimes against elderly Asians in New York are vastly underreported. Here’s some information on what defines a hate crime, how to report incidents to the police, and ways to document your experience if you don’t want to get the police involved.
These biographies, memoirs, novels and collections of poetry show the ways Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have long organized and fought back against oppression.
The Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) Center for Ethnic Studies has led the way to the creation of a new department, the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies, which offers an Associate in Arts (A.A.) degree in Ethnic Studies.
“Enough is enough — our community has been through enough trauma,” Komal Chohan, who lost his maternal grandmother in the shooting, said.
This interactive map is the product of more than a decade of research from the Endangered Language Alliance, a group that seeks to document and preserve smaller, minority, and Indigenous languages across New York City.