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Friday 26th May 2017,
AAPI students fight for immigration rights.
By Helen Mun
May is an important month for Asian America: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a time when our voices and narratives are centered and celebrated on social media, in museums, in schools. May is also an important month for Asian American history: in 1843, the … Read more
The traumatic experience of being incarcerated behind barbed wire for simply being Japanese is still a tough subject to talk about for some who lived through it .
200 Japanese Americans held a reunion at the Santa Anita Racetrack this past weekend to renew friendships and relive memories.
They were imprisoned there before being transferred … Read more
A group of Hmong American undergraduates are organizing to lobby the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to launch a formal Hmong American Studies program, reported the Wisconsin State Journal.
Wisconsin is home to one of the largest Hmong American populations in the country, but the students face an uphill climb at a time the state … Read more
Historical marker at Granite City, BC makes no mention of Chinese miners who began working 25 years before the White miners
The contributions of Asians is often excluded from history books.
In parts of British Columbia, its as if these Asians didn’t exist at all.
Vice reports there’s barely a trace of Chinese miners, even … Read more
Members of the Brandeis Asian American Task Force present a letter to new campus president Ronald D. Liebowitz
Students at Brandeis University didn’t waste a minute pushing a proposal for an Asian American Studies program before the campus’ new president.
Just minutes after the inauguration of Ronald D. Liebowitz as the new president, the Brandeis … Read more
By Ed Diokno
Kevin Nadall, a Buzzfeed contributor, has come up with one of that seemingly never-ending lists, “15 Memorable Facts About Filipino American History You Should Know.”
He asked Filipino Americans from all over the country to share what they want the world to know about Filipino Americans.
He got the responses … Read more
Protestors in Los Angeles advocate for Ethnic Studies (2014)
By Louis Chan
AsAmNews National Correspondent
With little fanfare, Governor Jerry Brown of California has signed a bill requiring every school district and charter school to offer an ethnic studies class in high school.
The bill becomes effective in the 2020-21 school year, giving … Read more
Locke’s Main Street is only three blocks long (National Park Service photo)
By Ed Diokno
An important piece of Asian American history almost went up in flames last weekend. One of the old wooden buildings in the town of Locke, California caught fire and threatened the entire town of old, wood-frame structures built by
200 people pack a hearing to discuss changes in history books used in California
UPDATE: Early Friday morning after most people had gone to sleep, the California Instructional Quality Commission rejected a proposal to replace the word “India” with “South Asia” in history books used in California public schools, reports First Post.
The … Read more
Toshiaki Karasawa as the Japanese Schindler
Cellin Gluck
23 years after the debut of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning movie Schindler’s List, the story of Chiune Sugihara will make its U.S. debut at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival on January 31, reports … Read more
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