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Audio 2023

A Community in Healing: Monterey Park, 6 Months After the Shooting

Now, more than six months later, San Gabriel Valley residents are still recovering from the shooting that night: the 72-year-old assailant had killed 11 people at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in the neighboring city of Monterey Park.

Feature 2023

For Asian Americans, ADHD diagnosis brings closure after years of being ignored

Validation only comes after years of coping with ADHD symptoms and frayed relationships with parents

Audio 2023

A Community in Healing: Monterey Park, 6 Months After the Shooting

Feature 2023

How one of Filipino America’s last newspapers folded

For 30 years, Manila Mail, a newspaper based in Washington, provided about 65,000 Filipino immigrants and their descendants in the greater D.C. metropolitan area a platform for discourse and connection. But printing stopped in late 2021.

Feature 2023

What three cities’ fights say about Chinatown’s identity

Chinatowns in Philadelphia, Manhattan, and Los Angeles are trying to shape their own futures in the face of adversities.

Voices reports

Los Angeles 2022

Feature 2022

Exploited Esthetics: How Asian American Beauty Workers are Organizing

“Nobody teaches us in the industry. Nobody teaches about chemicals. Nobody teaches us about health and safety,” Dash said.

Voices reports

Virtual 2021

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?

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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