Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
It took over 10 years to make AAPI Month a permanent celebration. PIX11 News is highlighting just some of the many accomplishments of the AAPI community in the special, “Celebrating Asian Pacific Heritage.”
Students at P.S. 244 in Flushing, Queens heard from a polar explorer and a City Council member on a recent morning — grown-ups who showed them the kinds of futures that they can have, too.
Thursday and Friday marked the second annual AAPI Summit at the state Capitolin Albany.
Daniel Grossman, a WVU researcher, found low birth weights are one of the negative health outcomes still reverberating for Japanese Americans decades after the incarceration camps and forced migrations they experienced during and after World War II.
16 State Landmarks to be Illuminated Red and Gold to Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month on May 30
White Americans now report better health outcomes than Asian Americans among US adults aged 50 and over. Trends in disability prevalence have improved for all other groups but not US-born Asians since 2005