Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Hester Street is a rapidly growing, mid-sized New York City-based urban planning, design, and community development non-profit with a national reach, whose mission is to ensure that neighborhoods and cities are shaped by the people who live in them. We are mission-driven urban planners, architects, and community developers working together with community-based organizations and governments … Read more
Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) and the 33rd Annual Asian Heritage Month committee are presenting both in-person and remote events for BMCC faculty, students and staff throughout April.
Within the next several days, New York State will finalize a budget that will shape the lives of all its residents. The budget is a test of what our government prioritizes and values. State government leaders have an opportunity to combat the marginalization, violence, and isolation the Asian American community is facing, by including the … Read more
Edith Kanaka’ole, who died in 1978, is one of five women who will be depicted on the coins next year as part of a program that honors notable women.
Kingsborough Community College (KCC) students Shaindy Weichman and Jiahua Wu were among the 440 nationwide semifinalists selected by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for its highly competitive Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship.
As the nation enacts a new historic anti-lynching bill into law, experts say there needs to be increased attention on a dark and largely untold piece of Asian American history: lynchings that terrorized communities.