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Virtual 2021

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Investigative 2021

Voices Investigation: Few Black, Latinx students are editors of top college newspapers

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

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

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.

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.”

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.

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.

Audio 2021

Asian-Americans demand: ‘Call me by my name’

Mispronouncing someone’s name is much more than just callously stumbling over letters.

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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