NY Times: Christine Choy, Documentarian of Asian American Life, Dies at 76
By Ash Wu Christine Choy, a bold filmmaker whose influential documentaries, including the Oscar-nominated “Who Killed Vincent Chin?,” probed social-justice issues involving Asian Americans and other marginalized people, died on Dec. 7 in the Bronx. She was 76. Her...
Mayhem Games Brings the Heat with Clapback: The Asian American Edition
This holiday season, Mayhem Games is on a mission to flip the script on Asian American representation in gaming, and their debut game, Clapback: The Asian American Edition, is here to do just that—one perfectly timed comeback at a time. Ever been hit with a...
Playbill: Simu Liu Sets Broadway Debut in Oh, Mary!
By Logan Culwell-Block Screen star Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) will make his Broadway debut in Oh, Mary! at the Lyceum Theatre, starring as Mary’s Teacher opposite recently announced upcoming star John Cameron Mitchell’s Mary Todd...
Hawaii State News: Resolution marking 50 years of Southeast Asian diaspora in U.S. pushed by Hirono
U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono, a Hawai‘i Democrat, and U.S. Rep. Derek Tran, a Democrat from California, are leading a push to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Southeast Asia refugee resettlement in the United States. The lawmakers introduced a...
Dallas Morning News: Dallas museum brings Palestinian diaspora together to archive history, preserve past
By Lilly Kersh Niveen Bawab clutched a folder of tattered photographs, a faded image of her grandparents’ wedding in Jordan in the 1960s, childhood photos of her father tucked between a screen print and a stamp for the Palestinian Youth Movement. Stephanie Drenka,...
South Asian Insider: NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN TASK FORCE CHAIR GRACE LEE AND ASSEMBLYMEMBER NILY ROZIC PRESENT $589,061 TO SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY IN QUEENS
New York — Recently, the New York State Assembly Asian Pacific American (APA) Task Force Chair Assemblymember Grace Lee and Assemblymember Nily Rozic announced $589,061 in state funding for the South Asian Council for Social Services (SACSS), a leading South Asian...
NBC Connecticut: Norwich mayor making history as first Sikh to hold that office in Connecticut
By Mike Savino Swarnjit Singh has spent the last 10 days getting settled in as the new mayor for Norwich. After his Dec. 2 swearing-in ceremony, he’s been focused on his priorities of housing and economic development. “It feels good, it feels like lot of...
ABC News: Efforts to require Asian American history in schools after anti-Asian hate starting to pay off
Stockton, California. Young persons of Japanese ancestry, second and third generation Americans. They have been in camp about a week, where there is little for them to do as yet. The sun is very hot. The oldest of these boys has been studying this morning. The book...
Daily Journal: 7 moments of Asian American and Black American solidarity
Frederick Douglas (Circa 1879) By Keerthi Vedantam “Divide and conquer” is a maxim that has proven effective in numerous scenarios—such as negotiations and computer programming, for example. But, more insidiously, it has also been used to cement social...