Political newcomer Adena Ishii is Berkeley’s first Asian American mayor

On this day in 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Gong Lum v. Rice, upholding Mississippi’s authority to enforce racially segregated pu...

Share

T The U.S. Coast Guard has commissioned its latest Sentinel-class fast response cutter (FRC) named after Florence Ebersole Smith Finch, a Filipino American woma...

Share

A new documentary offers a glimpse of the music scene enjoyed by Vietnamese American youths who sought refuge in the U.S. with their families in the 1980s. Dire...

Share

The city of Detroit is honoring five notable individuals, including Asian American figure Vincent Chin, with street signs bearing their names. The sign commemor...

Share

The 2022 documentary “Free Chol Soo Lee,” which tells the story of a Korean immigrant wrongfully convicted of killing Yip Yee Tak in San Francisco’s Chinatown i...

Share

The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) has launched the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) History Hub, a comprehensive educational database aimed at helping...

Share

Sammy Lee, the son of Korean immigrants, made history by becoming the first Asian American athlete to win a gold medal for the U.S. in the Olympics. Lee achieve...

Share

The Square and Circle Club, the nation’s oldest Chinese and Asian American women’s service organization, is set to celebrate a century of dedicated community se...

Share

Efforts are being made to remember a Missouri Chinatown that existed for nearly 100 years before it was destroyed and forgotten over time. Key points:

Share

PBS has released a documentary film that sheds new light on the lives of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II, featuring first-hand stories and c...

Share