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By Jana Monji After the slap seen around the world, Chris Rock fell into another Asian-related faux pas and I immediately thought of this documentary, In Search of Bengali Harlem. The documentary is about a man, Alaudin Ullah,  learning more about both his parents and his heritage with the help...

Bengali men with their Puerto Rican and African American wives, at a New York City banquet in 1952. By Raymond Douglas Chong, AsAmNews Staff Writer (In Search of Bengali Harlem plays at CAAMFest40 Saturday, March 14 at 6:00 p.m. at the Great Star Theater in San Francisco. AsAmNews is proud to...

Bengali men with their Puerto Rican and African American wives, at a New York City banquet in 1952. By Raymond Douglas Chong, AsAmNews Staff Writer Aladdin Ullah is living a Bengali American journey, as a trailblazing comedian and a rising playwright on the American cultural mosaic. His new documentary In Search...

 For the first time, ballots in Queens will be translated into Bengali, reports the Indian Express The move comes after pressure from the South Asian community and two years after the federal government ordered the city to provide language assistance to South Asians under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. "The...

By Julia Tong Four years after a spike in anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic, many assume that hate crimes are on the decline. A new survey conducted by The Asian American Foundation (TAAF), however, challenges this theory. TAAF’s survey measured the impact of hate crimes against Asian American communities...

The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) on Thursday highlighted new informational materials to combat hate and connect Californians to support – in an expanded array of languages – amid still-growing reports of hate activity over the past three months. California vs Hate, the state’s anti-hate hotline and resource network, “provides...

Depending on who you ask, Henry Kissinger will be remembered as a Nobel Peace Prize winner and peace maker. Others consider him a war criminal responsible for the deaths of countless Cambodians. The former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford died...

The legacy of U.S. military influence on home countries–and use of U.S. taxpayer money– cited as major reasons for solidarity by Jessica Xiao https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ivUNXbik5GQ WASHINGTON, DC — Saturday, November 4, from morning to dark, downtown Washington, DC, was alight with the energy of protesters demanding the Biden administration support a ceasefire between...

By Erin Chew Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month of May marks the start of the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (#LAAPFF) for 2023. Opening at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), the launch party held on May 4, was a spectacle of Asian branded swag, revolving...

by Jana Monji, AsAmNews Contributor Unseen a documentary that was recently screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, tells the story of a blind, undocumented immigrant. According to the Firelight Media website, filmmaker Set Hernandez (Rongkilyo) is from Bicol, Philippines and an undocumented immigrant. As such you can imagine the plight...

The 39th edition of Visual Communications' Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival opens up today, Thursday, 4 May 2023, with a free event at the Japanese American National Museum. Screenings won't begin until Friday. Between 5-9 May, the annual showcase of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Island, diasporic and Asian...

By Lindsay Wang, AsAmNews, Maya Seo & AsAmNews Staff and Volunteers (AsAmNews updated this guide originally published May 1, 2022 on April 30, 2023) In 2021, AsAmNews published what is arguably the most comprehensive guide ever to supporting the Asian American community. This year to kick off AAPI Heritage Month, we...

By Julia Tong On April 26th, AAPI Congressman, educators, and organizers gathered in front of the US Capitol to launch the Vincent Chin Institute, a network of veteran AAPI organizers fighting against a rise in anti-Asian hate. The launch also coincided with the release of the second edition of the...

By Shirley Ng, AsAmNews Staff Writer On Tuesday night, the Mayor's office commemorated Bangladesh Independence Day with song and dance at City Hall. The celebration commemorates the day 52 years ago the Bangladeshi people on March 26, 1971, declared their independence from Pakistan. It represents the moment East Pakistan began its...

by Akemi Tamanaha, Associate Editor An AAPI advocacy coalition has filed a legal complaint against Arizona officials who are implementing two voting laws the group says will restrict voting for people of color and other marginalized groups. Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC (Advancing Justice – AAJC) and global law firm...

By Jessica Xiao, AsAmNews Contributor WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Saturday, just over forty years since the murder of Vincent Chin, hundreds of people gathered on the National Mall for unity amongst communities of color against racism, in a burgeoning attempt to grapple with AAPI identity in social justice movements and...

Google honored Stacey Park Milbern with a Google Doodle Thursday on what would have been her 35th birthday, May 19, Milbern is considered the co-founder of the modern disability justice movement.  “I want to leave a legacy of disabled people knowing we are powerful and beautiful because of who we...

The 40th edition of CAAMFest, the showcase of Asian American and Pacific Islander-themed films in San Francisco and Oakland, this year features a wide array of feature films and documentaries along with special programs spotlighting cinema from both Hong Kong and the Pacific Islands. AsAmNews is a proud media sponsor...

By Lindsay Wang, AsAmNews, Maya Seo & AsAmNews Staff and Volunteers (AsAmNews updated this guide originally published May 1, 2022 on April 30, 2023) In 2021, AsAmNews published what is arguably the most comprehensive guide ever to supporting the Asian American community. This year to kick off AAPI Heritage Month, we...

A former “Good Indian Mother” regains her agency while running her own WhatsApp sari shop. A man travels across four Indian states as he compiles a dictionary of four languages- Malayalam, Kannada, Tamin, and Telugu. A persecuted Rohingya girl, and a boy from the contested Kashmir region, connect and...