AAPI Heritage Month

Dozens of groups attended a celebration and rally on Boston Common on Sunday in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage month. In total, more than 70 organizations took part. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was among the speakers at the event, which also included music and dance performances. Everyone also took part in a unity walk around the common.

Actor James Hong was honored for a career in which he has appeared in 469 television shows, 149 feature films, 32 short films and 22 video games.

In the period between March 19, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2021, a total of 10,905 hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. were reported to Stop AAPI Hate.

As we celebrate AAPI Heritage Month, some health experts are putting the spotlight on distrust and fear in many Asian American communities that has led to vaccine hesitancy.

Every culture has a unique connection to a particular food or cuisine and most have their own variants of meat or bone-based soups. But the tradition of laboriously simmering broth of undesirable animal scraps to slowly extract life-giving nourishment is a tradition that is quintessentially Asian.

Detained aboard steamers in the San Francisco Bay for months, Wong Kim Ark pursued his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, setting the precedent for birthright citizenship

In the original 1970s TV series, “Kung Fu” starred David Carradine as martial artist Kwai Chang Caine – while Asian actors were largely filling the roles of extras. Now, the CW reboot of the series features a predominantly Asian cast – a first for a network drama, says Shannon Dang, a star of the new series.

For Korean-American adoptees, the search to find relatives can be complicated by the sheer number of Korean children adopted to foreign countries without records or any link to their past. “Nov. 13, 1971, I was found at a railroad station in Daegu, Korea,” said Christine Pennell of Berlin, Connecticut. Abandoned at age 2, then adopted at age 3 to a…

The Senate and House almost unanimously passed legislation to combat the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The measure would expedite the review of hate crimes and provide support for local law enforcement in response to thousands of reported violent incidents in the past year. Police have seen a noted uptick in such crimes against Asian...

Sponsors gave peanut butter, bread and apples to Steven Yeng’s family when they arrived in America “all skin and bones” after surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. Through his childhood, Yeng saw peanut butter as a symbol of freedom and put peanut butter on everything and – now his whiskey brand, Skrewball Whiskey, is launching a peanut butter flavored...

How visible are AAPI people? 42% of respondents in a study could not name an Asian American or Pacific Islander when asked. “It just goes to show that while we’re visible in some degree, we’re still not top of mind,” Norman Chen tells LX News during AAPI Heritage Month. He leads the group that conducted the survey, LAAUNCH (Leading...

The newspaper that was founded in 1903, Rafu Shimpo, still serves Southern California’s Japanese American community today, and is now a treasure trove of historic information.

Demonstrators this spring have come together in Boston and across the country to bring awareness to a rising wave of violence against Asian-Americans. On Saturday, a number of artists took their turn in Copley Square to make their voices heard in a special way. “With art, you can convey that with passion and love and even if there’s aggression in...

A rally led largely by students from Berklee College of Music aimed to bring broader awareness to rising hate and violence against Asian-Americans.

Many Asian Americans have fielded the question their entire lives, along with the common follow-up, “No, where are you really from?”

Many Asian Americans have been asked a question that calls their identity as Americans into question: “Where are you really from?” We asked five prominent Asian Americans in Boston about the dreaded question and their experiences with stereotypes and racism.

Bigotry and hate against Asian Americans kept many new immigrants to the U.S. in menial jobs for decades, including many laundrymen.

The Quidachays beat the odds and built a successful coffee and plant shop, La Marque Café, in Hillcrest during the pandemic. They’ve been using their platform to raise awareness about the Asian American Pacific Islander cultures.

Vermont’s lone member of the U.S. House of Representatives is voicing his strong support for a bill that will be voted on this week, calling for increased resources to respond to hate crimes against members of Asian communities. “I think it’s appalling to Vermonters to see any kind of discrimination,” Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, said Monday at a press...

A bill is making its way through congress aimed at addressing a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.