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On Tuesday, the House Appropriations committee marked up the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS) appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2026. The bill’s accompanying report contained concerning language that directs the Department of Justice to effectively re-establish the now-defunct ‘China Initiative,’ reviving the discriminatory profiling of Asian American scholars. In response, 82 civil rights … Read more

The Library of Congress has announced Arthur Sze as the 25th U.S. poet laureate. Sze has had a decades-long career as a poet, with his work often drawing inspiration from philosophy, science and nature. He’s also an editor and translator of poetry. Sze will start on Oct. 9, taking over from Ada Limón.

Once a rising Bollywood star, this actor, who shared screen space with Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, and several other A-listers, stepped away from the limelight to pursue a successful career in the corporate world.

Margaret Chin is a sociology professor at Hunter College. Jacob Chin is a retired FDNY lieutenant who worked from a Chinatown fire house. Both talked with WNYC’s Sean Carlson more about how 9/11 affected Chinatown and still does to this day.

The Department of Education will no longer fund discretionary grant programs to several minority-serving institutions, arguing that they violate constitutional protections by prioritizing racial or ethnic quotas to verify eligibility.

New Jersey is home to one of the largest Sikh American populations in the United States, with approximately 100,000 residents identifying with the faith.