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,...
Kundiman, a group founded in 2004 to support the creation, cultivation and promotion of Asian American poetry, recently established a new book publication prize for Asian American poets. JANINE OSHIRO, winner of the...
The first person of color drafted into the NBA, the Utah-born Misaka played for the New York Knicks during the 1947 season. A new film by Christine Toy Johnson and Bruce Johnson explores the pioneering athlete’s life...
Asian America is only 40 years old, if by that you mean the term and the concept of a multi-ethnic movement based in racial solidarity. A new cultural history of Asian American activism in the ‘60s and ‘70s argues that...
"Somewhere in the Middle," Jared Rehberg's second CD release, features the talents of producer Steve Francis from Stush Music, R&B singer Heather Park, Arthur Rodriguez, and singer-songwriter Kevin So. The title...
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,...
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...
Back in 1993, then-president Bill Clinton issued an official apology for the United States role in the illegal overthrow of the Hawai'ian monarchy a century before. Citing that apology, the State Supreme Court of...
