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Seattle 2025

Image of Professor Jane Wu. (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Rao.)

Education 2025

NIH probe and lab closure preceded Northwestern University professor’s death, lawsuit says

The estate of Dr. Jane Wu, a Chinese American neuroscientist who died by suicide after an investigation by the National Institutes of Health, has filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University alleging discrimination.

The St. Vincent de Paul Community Center is one of many organizations helping to keep the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, afloat. (Photo by Aditya Thiyag.)

immigration 2025

Springfield rallies around Haitian community as threat of deportation looms

Local groups in Ohio are mobilizing to support Haitian immigrants as they face challenges from white supremacist organizations, legal hurdles, loss of work, and ICE.

API Rise co-director Billy Taing poses for a photo in the organization’s office in Los Angeles. (Photo by Malcolm Caminero)

criminal justice 2025

Formerly incarcerated Asian Angelenos face new fears with ICE

After serving lengthy prison sentences and reentering society as adults, members of API Rise recount their experiences in ICE detention and how they were punished a second time for their former crimes.

immigration 2025

Indian immigrants in Florida are growing old in ways their parents never did

Just outside Tampa, Florida, at Anand Vihar, one of the first luxury retirement communities for Indian American immigrants, neighbors share culture, traditions and meals.

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Washington, D.C. 2023

climate change 2023

How Asian Americans are mobilizing around the 2024 elections

Ahead of the 2024 election, Asian American voters are mobilizing around issues of immigration, gun violence, climate change and more.

‘What is God up to in our neighborhood?’: Houses of worship navigate a refugee landscape growing increasingly political

From X to WeChat: How misinformation spreads across social media and into Chinese-language spaces

From temple towns to Brooklyn studios: How kalamkari travels between worlds

NIH probe and lab closure preceded Northwestern University professor’s death, lawsuit says

Formerly incarcerated Asian Angelenos face new fears with ICE

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