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Voices reports

Washington, D.C. 2023

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

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?

Feature 2021

The Great Resignation: Why journalists of color left the industry

We speak with four journalists of color — two who have left, and two who have come close — to hear their stories and better understand the forces behind the “Great Resignation.”

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.

Voices reports

Atlanta 2019

Feature 2019

At the Dinner Table: Asian American Politics Across Generations

Ahmed is part of a growing group of young Asian Americans who are using the lessons they’ve learned in activism, politics and academia to engage their communities.

Feature 2019

‘Minority Within a Minority’: The Making of the Southern and Midwestern Asian-American Identity

With an overpowering coastal Asian cultural identity, the experiences of Asian Americans who grew up in the South and Midwest are often overlooked.

How this local D.C. bakery has uplifted the Asian American community

For these four Asian Americans, politics is personal

San Francisco plans to cut Pacific Islander services in budget deficit

From Palestine to the Philippines: University of Washington student activists unite for liberation

Vietnamese Americans, progressive and conservative, organize around Trump’s 2024 campaign

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