Showing posts with label AAPI History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AAPI History. Show all posts
Monday, April 18, 2022

Denver formally apologizes for the 1880 anti-Chinese riot that destroyed Chinatown

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What was once Denver's Chinatown is now a busy commercial district visited by tourists. Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock signed a resolut...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Amache concentration camp for Japanese Americans during WWII to become historical site

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In the grasslands of Colorado stands an old watchtower that used to look over the the concentration camp that housed thousands of American c...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Congress must take the next step in creating a national museum telling the AANHPI story

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Rep. Grace Meng pushes for a national museum for AANHPI One of the first things Congress will tackle when they return to the Capitol in 2022...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Pearl Harbor: Don't miss 'NCIS-Hawaii' episode 9 of the first season

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Scene from "NCIS: Hawaii's" ninth episode, "Imposter." OPINION NCIS: Hawaii , episode 9, titled "Imposter,...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Virginia selects historical highway markers will include AAPI history for the first time

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AAPI historical markers similar to this one will be placed near Virginia's roads. Virginia residents and tourists will be reminded about...
Monday, May 11, 2020

PBS documentary, 'Asian Americans,' premieres tonight

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It has been years in the making but  Asian Americans will finally air on May 11 and 12, at 8 p.m. on your local PBS station. The 5-p...
Friday, May 10, 2019

So, where were all the Chinese workers when famous transcontinental railroad photo?

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There's not a Chinese owrker in sight in the historical photo. On the 150th anniversary of the last spike driven in to complete one...
Monday, March 25, 2019

State building to be named after pioneer woman politician

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ASAM NEWS Pioneering politician March Fong Eu will be the first woman in California to ever have a state building named after her. The Se...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Bill introduced to award Congressional Gold Medal to Fred Korematsu

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KOREMATSU INSTITTUE Karen Korematsu, stands before a portrait of her father, Fred Korematsu. On what would have been his 100th birthd...
Monday, September 24, 2018

1968 -- when Asian Americans discovered each other and a movement took hold

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1968 WAS A HELLUVA YEAR! Fifty years later, the calamitous events of that landmark year continue to impact today's Asian America...