The Brooklyn-based rap trio Das Racist, known for polarizing crowds at music festivals, joins us in the studio. Their style has been described as "'deconstructionalist': sawing the legs out from under hip-hop...
On New Years Day, immigrant rights activists took sanctuary in a Florida church and began a fast to draw attention to the harmful effects of current deportation policy. We speak to Subhash Kateel of Florida Immigrant...
Founded nearly 40 years ago by Chinatown activists, Project Reach organizes and provides services to immigrant and marginalized youth in New York, including crisis advocacy and counseling for undocumented, gay, lesbian,...
Asian Pacific Americans for Progress teams with blogger Angry Asian Man to issue a fresh report on the top ten colleges and universities for API students-- by progressive activists' criteria. With Oiyan Poon of...
Founded in Chinatown in the early 1970s, Basement Workshop was the first multidisciplinary, non-profit Asian American cultural institution in New York, with a profound impact on Asian American arts and community...
July 27 will mark the anniversary of the signing of the 1953 Korean War armistice, which brought a temporary ceasefire to the war. Since a permanent peace treaty has never been signed, Korea is technically still in a...
On May 12th, 2008, China's Sichuan province was devastated by an earthquake that left 88,000 people dead and more than 5 million homeless or displaced. A year later, rebuilding continues while many children...
This past Saturday the 3rd annual New York City Asian American Student Conference brought together students from Hunter, Columbia, Fordham and Brooklyn College on NYU’s campus. The all-day free affair drew in about 400...
The UN-backed Khmer Rouge trials that began this March are now in jeopardy due to lack of funding and allegations of corruption. Meanwhile, the survivors of the traumatic events under examination, including the...
March 10, 2009
The Tibetan diaspora community as well as groups in solidarity with them are organizing marches, demonstrations, and delegations to the UN and other political figures to mark the 50th anniversary of the uprising and...
