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Join author Katie Yamasaki as she reads from and discusses her newest picture book that celebrates the life of her grandfather, the acclaimed Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki. She will also lead a short interactive art activity connected to the story. This event is appropriate for kids of all ages. Minoru Yamasaki described the feeling […]

In Honolulu Chinatown: 200 Years of Red Lanterns & Red Lights, Gary Coover has done extensive historical research into hundreds of historical buildings in Honolulu’s Chinatown from the turn of the 19th Century to the present day. In what is expected to be an extremely compelling and fascinating webinar, we look at the past, present

Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty (Routledge, 2019) examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in colleges and universities. Highlighting the experiences of faculty of color—including African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Indigenous populations—in higher education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories.

One enduring legacy of Chinese Americans is their longstanding service to our country. In fact, Chinese in America have served in the U.S. military since the Civil War. More than 20,000 served in World War II.  Join our distinguished panel as we talk about some of the Chinese American men and women who have served

Giving What We Can wants to offer any school full sponsorship to host a charity election, a school-wide election among three charities. Through the election, students vote to direct up to $2,000 in fully sponsored funds to their choice of three highly impactful charities. Essentially, students learn about three impactful charities, use reasoning and evidence to

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, a documentary featuring letters written by U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof, augment the first-person “narrative” by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did

Dr. David J. Silverman will reveal the Thanksgiving Myth and dive into the often overlooked history of the Wampanoag people. He will explore how the traditional Thanksgiving Myth has promoted the idea that Native people willingly ceded their country to the English to give rise to a white, Christian, democratic nation. The talk traces how

In the aftermath of the Civil War, Congress enacted statutes to empower individuals to sue state and local officials and certain private actors who violated their constitutional and civil rights directly in federal courts. Chinese individuals of limited means—including laborers, laundrymen, and storekeepers victimized by rampant anti-Asian violence and discrimination—were among the first to sue

Speakers from MOCA and Intrepid Museum will discuss Chinese Americans’ service during WWII and why it’s taken so long for these brave men and women to receive their deserved recognition. There will be time to ask questions and share stories.

Every year since 2010 the Chinese American Museum has hosted a Commemoration event to remember the victims of the Chinese Massacre of 1871. This year, the museum is hosting a special on-site film screening and in-person program.

Connie Young Yu (a descendant of Chinese railroad workers) on the early Chinese immigrants to Santa Clara Valley, national anti-Chinese legislation, and several local excavations for redevelopment projects which have uncovered significant remnants of Chinese communities. Connie Young Yu, a 4th generation Californian, is a writer, historian, and noted speaker. She has written extensively about Asian

The story of a proud daughter of immigrant parents, growing up and performing in her family’s renowned Polynesian nightclub, and the legacy of her family’s many contributions to the American cultural and international scientific landscape – from moo shu pork to NASA’s “vomit comet.”  Initially intending to document her family’s remarkable journey as immigrants in

The most recent NAEP report shows a continuing downward trend in reading scores for young students. Leading education company Imagine Learning is using voice technology to give students more instruction time and stem the decline in reading scores nationally.  Between January and May this year, Imagine Learning undertook an extensive pilot with SoapBox Fluency. Join

Angel Island in San Francisco Bay is a crucial spot marking the history of exclusionary, race-based immigration policy. Its immigration station has sometimes been called “the Ellis Island of the West.” But Angel Island was an ambivalent gateway, a place of incarceration and exclusion for migrants as well as an entry for half a million

Misa Murohashi (former NAP general manager), Tomio Moriguchi (NAP, Inc. CEO and publisher), and David Yamaguchi (NAP editor) discuss their experience and roles at Seattle’s oldest, minority-owned publishing company serving the Japanese and Japanese American (JA) community since 1902.   Dedicated to preserving the impact and legacy of this community, The North American Post highlights

How can AAPI-serving media support and connect both new arrivals and longstanding Indigenous and Asian American news audiences in the face of rampant online disinformation, political polarization, ongoing anti-Asian violence, and more? This town hall will engage thought leaders and Asian media journalists in a reflection on the history of Asian and AAPI-serving media in

Ava Chin will address the challenges faced in writing her forthcoming memoir, The Way to Mott Street – challenges which included the impact of the Chinese Exclusion laws on four generations of her family in NYC’s Chinatown, and the task of how to thread a narrative together where the historical scope includes many eras and

More than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor. It was the first time in history that civilization’s most feared disease — the infamous Black Death —

Are you curious about finding out about your ancestors but don’t know where to begin? Does the cost of genealogy databases scare you away from joining millions of researchers in America’s most favorite hobby? Join us to learn the basics of Ellis Island genealogy and take advantage of world-class research tools at no cost to

A.Dudley Gardner PhD is a Professor Emeritus from Western Wyoming College. He has published several books and articles on Wyoming history and wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Chinese in Wyoming, Alberta, British Columbia, and Montana. He is currently finishing up a book entitled Jade Snow: A History of the Chinese in Wyoming 1869-1937. As

Prof. Mark T. Johnson has mined several large collections of primary documents left by Chinese pioneers, translated into English for the first time. These collections, spanning the 1880s-1950s, provide insight into the pressures the Chinese community faced—from family members back in China and from non-Chinese Montanans—as economic and cultural disturbances complicated acceptance of Chinese residents

The Five Chinatowns: A Community History is a CHSSC research project that documents communities in Los Angeles that were central to the lives of Chinese American residents of the city during the period of Chinese American exclusion and restriction. David R. Chan dubbed these communities the “five Chinatowns” of Los Angeles. These communities emerged as

Learn about common stressors in youth and ways to promote wellness as a parent. Presented by Cindy Huang, Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University; and William Tsai, Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology, New York University.

Little has been written about Chinese immigrants who have achieved the American immigrants’ dream of economic stability, a leadership role in the community, recognition by fellow Americans, a wife and family, and achievements by the second and later generations.  These men fulfilled their American immigrant dream and only recently have been recognized for their achievements

WE ARE ONE was the rallying cry during the brief and successful strike in the summer of 1982 when 20,000 Chinese immigrant members of Local 23-25 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) stood together for their union contract. Two major rallies in Columbus Park in Chinatown resulted in a successful settlement of the contract.

Peter and Wendy Horikoshi perform music from the Asian American movement of the 1970’s to the present.

Did you know that at one point, Japanese dairy farmers supplied Seattle with as much as 50% of all its dairy? How about a beloved local delicacy — a cultivated strawberry variety preserved and shared with the world through Japanese farming techniques? Farming has and continues to serve as a vital facet of the Pacific

President’s Advisory Commission on AAPI to meet to discuss full and draft recommendations by the Commission’s Subcommittees. These Subcommittees are: Belonging, Inclusion, Anti-Asian Hate, Anti-Discrimination; Data Disaggregation; Language Access; Economic Equity; Health Equity; and Immigration and Citizenship Status. The meeting is open to the public.

Celebrate the release of the award-winning biography of civil rights leader, Sei Fujii, with a special 10th anniversary screening of the short film Lil Tokyo Reporter and a discussion around the biography. The conversation will include filmmaker and publisher Jeffrey Gee Chin and Academy Award–winner Chris Tashima, with additional guests to be announced. A Rebel’s

Founded in 1923 by Dr. Charles R. Shepard, Chung Mei was a home for abandoned Chinese boys in San Francisco’s Chinatown. “No other orphanage would take in children of color or Asiatic races.”  Ming Quong was home to neglected or abandoned Asian girls. Alumni from both homes will reminisce about their experiences growing up in their

The Wing Luke Museum continues an exploration of regional history and colonialism with personal stories from the early AANHPI communities – panelists who trace their ancestry back to the 1800s and early 1900s – on the theme “why we are here.” Through these personal narratives, we can better understand both the contributions of AANHPI labor

Each month the Chinese American Museum, along with our partners at the LAPL Chinatown Branch, hosts 1-2 virtual story time programs! Register for one or all!

This event combines documentary clips and open discussion about personal search, discovering heritage, and establishing place for Chinese Americans in a segregated nation.

A free, online workshop for teachers and life-long learners -The Making of Asian Americans. -Mapping Asian American Identify. -Asian American Legal Cases that Shaped Civil Rights for All.

The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who argued that certain nationalities were inherently inferior, providing the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history. Brandished by the upper class Bostonians and New Yorkers–many of them progressives–who led the anti-immigration movement, the eugenic arguments helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews,

This conversation will center on the biography and portraits and of the pioneering Japanese American swim coach Soichi Sakamoto. During the Great Depression, Sakamoto established the Three-Year Swim Club for children on Maui’s sugar plantations, with the goal of transforming a multiethnic youth group into Olympic-level swimmers in an unprecedented amount of time. Sakamoto’s training

In July 2022, the Seattle Japanese Language School (SJLS) celebrated its 120th anniversary! Formerly known as Kokugo Gakkō, the school was originally founded as a way for Nisei children of Issei immigrants to learn about Japanese language and culture. At this event, we’ll explore the storied legacy of the language school through historic photographs and

This summer intensive is designed to grow practitioners’ capacities to equitably serve and advocate for culturally + linguistically dynamic clients and communities. Stakeholders in social good at any level of experience/expertise are welcome.  Highlighted service areas include: Multilingual + CLDE places of learning Resettlement + foster agencies/individuals Non-profit service spaces Health care organizations Business workplaces

A series of three virtual presentations on three 19th-century Free Black communities in the New York region, these presentations accompany the excavation of archaeological sites located on the grounds of the Meeting House from July 25 to August 3. These sites of former buildings in Rye, New York were once owned by William Voris, an

Have you been collecting the names of your ancestors and looking for a family tree program? Doug shares the why and how he uses webtrees – an open-source online genealogy program that is not only private and can also work with Chinese characters. We will also announce the launch of the family tree portal exclusively

As recently as 1940, contact lenses did not exist for Americans. Invisible Vision is the hidden story of the man who brought them into existence, trained doctors and opticians to fit them, and developed the country’s largest contact lens manufacturing company that started the industry. Despite these accomplishments, few people know his name or background.

It has been 40 years since Vincent Chin’s tragic murder. To commemorate this somber milestone, NextShark will be hosting a series of virtual conversations with key players who made the Vincent Chin case such a pivotal and historic landmark movement.

As Vincent’s mother Lily said on national television, “Our skin color may be different, but our blood is the same.” The Chin Estate, ACJ, and the Planning Committee believe that Vincent Chin’s legacy will continue to advance the ideals of equal justice; solidarity against racism and hate that Lily Chin courageously stood for; and respect

MORE THAN 100 YEARS BEFORE THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC SHUT DOWN THE WORLD AND SET OFF A WAVE OF FEAR AND ANTI-ASIAN SENTIMENT, AN OUTBREAK OF BUBONIC PLAGUE IN SAN FRANCISCO’S CHINATOWN IN 1900 UNLEASHED A SIMILAR FUROR. Conversation with Li-Shin Yu to discuss her new film Plague at the Golden Gate, and cyclical histories between

Author Dr. Russell Low on how the early Chinese American Experience shaped the “greatest generation” during WWII.

From 1910 to 1940, a section of Angel Island (in the San Francisco Bay) was also used to process, interrogate, and detain over 500,000 immigrants who came from 80 different countries. Often referred to as the “Ellis Island of the West”, the former U.S. Immigration Station at Angel Island reminds us of a darker chapter

Ona “Oney” Judge Staines (c. 1773 – February 25, 1848) was a woman of mixed races who was enslaved to the Washington family, first at the family’s plantation at Mount Vernon and later, after George Washington became president, at the President’s House in Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital city. At the age of 23, she

Premieres Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, June 1 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand with PBS Video App. Over 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in

Mental health is a topic that has threaded throughout Chalkbeat’s journalism with particular intensity since COVID started. In response to this national need for more discussion around mental health, Chalkbeat and College Track will host student panelists from across the country in conversation with Blair Imani to share their experiences with mental health and wellness over the

Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with two outstanding Asian American Trailblazers and Bestselling authors.

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th U.S. president from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.

Please join us for a conversation with Stuart Eizenstat, who has had an extraordinary career of public service serving five US presidents in top policy positions. As Special Emissary on Holocaust-Era Issues to President Clinton and again in the Obama administration, he successfully negotiated major agreements with the Swiss, German, Austrian and French, and other

Donaldina Cameron opened the Ming Quong Home in Los Gatos in 1936, at a time when few if any places provided services for Asian orphans. “(It’s) an example of an early organization that really left a very significant mark,” said historian Amy Long. In the ensuing decades, the home welcomed thousands of Asian children through

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States (a neutral country at the time) against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States’

Beginning with her stunning 1976 memoir The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston has forged a profound, richly imagined, and genre-defying narrative of the American experience from her vantage point as the daughter of Chinese immigrants. To mark publication of the new Library of America edition, Kingston joins Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, editor of

MCNY online workshop to rediscover the life and legacy of Yuri Kochiyama. We will examine primary resources from our collections and hear from scholars and artists that will inspire new ideas for including Kochiyama’s story in your classrooms. This workshop is geared towards educators but is open to anyone with an interest in Kochiyama’s activism.

A discussion of the 1982 ILGWU Strike in Chinatown, NY and its impacts, and a celebration of Wai Wah Chan’s new book Chinatown Heroes.

Historian and librarian Sarah Okner, descendant of internees, shares photos and details of daily life in an internment camp, and the profound effects it had on those living there. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were forced from their homes and into incarceration camps in remote areas