With one week left before New York’s primary elections, we look at the candidacy of Reshma Saujani, running for Congress to represent Manhattan’s East Side. She's young, a Harvard and Yale grad, the daughter of...
The uproar over a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan shows no signs of abating and is shaping up to be a divisive issue in the upcoming mid-term elections. Faiza Patel of the Brennan Center and by...
The first Vietnamese artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Dinh Q. Le’s work references history and war, particularly the Vietnam War. His show, titled “The Farmer and the...
On July 29th, the State of Arizona is expected to implement the controversial immigration law, SB 1070. To stand in solidarity with those fighting the law, groups in New York have organized a march across the Brooklyn...
At least 26 luxury apartments, 25 hotels, and more than 120 high-end boutiques and cafes have been built in Chinatown in recent years. Will old Chinatown disappear? Poet Fay Chiang and historian and filmmaker Peter...
A new show at the Arario Gallery in New York showcases the work of fifty emerging Asian American artists whose work, the curators say, is not about being Asian. We speak with artists Tattfoo Tan and Amy Fung-yi Lee,...
The 33rd Asian American International Film Festival starts this week in New York. This year’s festival includes 23 features and 71 short films that showcase the latest works created by filmmakers of Asian descent in...
In New York City, 65% of the working poor and one-third of middle and higher income workers lack paid sick days. Legislation currently under consideration in the City Council would change this by guaranteeing paid sick...
Every year since the 2007 US Social Forum in Atlanta, organizers and members of community groups working in Chinatowns across the country have been meeting to discuss movement-building and sharing expertise and...
For Pakistani Americans, will May 1, 2010 mark a turning point—for the worse? Are we in a post-Faisal Shahzad era? In the wake of the attempted Times Square bombing, already the government has talked about “severe...
