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Washington, D.C. 2023 Los Angeles 2022 Virtual 2021

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Audio 2022

Finding history, family and identity in Vancouver’s heritage languages

It takes a village to keep a language alive.

Voices reports

Of the 73 editors-in-chief at award-winning college newsrooms in the Spring 2021 semester, less than 6 percent were Black, and approximately 10 percent were Latinx — significantly less than their share of the college population.

Feature 2021

‘We need to tell our whole story’: A struggle to redefine the Asian American curriculum

“I had no knowledge of Asian American history growing up,” Chan, who graduated in 1997, said.

Feature 2021

For Asian American activists, police brutality, anti-Asian hate are two sides of the same coin

What role should policing play in Asian American communities?

Video 2021

Leaving Hong Kong: A city in flux

Five people who identify as Hong Kongers navigate the questions that come with political and personal changes in the city they call home.

Video 2021

Awakening: Asian American adoptees reflect on identity

This documentary highlights the voices of an underrepresented Asian American community — AAPI Adoptees — who grapple with their own racial and cultural visibility within the AAPI community itself.

How one of Filipino America’s last newspapers folded

What three cities’ fights say about Chinatown’s identity

These Asian immigrants can’t vote in 2024. But they’re finding ways to be heard

I Am What I Am Because of You

Exploited Esthetics: How Asian American Beauty Workers are Organizing

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