We examine health care access for two different Asian immigrant communities. Local activist and health worker Joyce Wong shares her experience working with the Southeast Asian refugee community in the Bronx and the...
We discuss the world of Asian American literature, from new trends, emerging authors, subjects people are writing about, and programming at the Workshop this spring.
We chat with Ed Lin, author of This is a Bust, a...
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...
New Orleans-born playwright and drama therapist Yasmine Beverly Rana discusses her new play Paradise, about an undocumented couple deciding whether to evacuate Hurricane Katrina, amid potential interrogation about their...
It’s been months since the controversial reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran. Months since countless Iranians took the streets to protest the elections. Here in New York City, solidarity efforts with the Iranian...
In the wake of ongoing investigations of alleged terrorist ties, FBI agents have "preventively" raided the homes of several Afghan residents in Queens in recent weeks. Yet again, community members now fear repression...
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...
The Chinatown Film Project, up now at the Museum of Chinese in America, is a film exhibition that aims to confront stereotyped representations of Chinatown by presenting new work reimagining the space geographically and...
The last few weeks we have seen countless images of Iranians on the street--and the police brutality they are meeting--as the country confronts the election of Mahmoud Ahmadijinad over Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mohsen...
