As a country, we’ve been deep in celebrating AAPI Heritage Month. Why May, you ask? Well, May was chosen to commemorate the first Japanese imm…
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President Joe Biden has expanded two culturally significant California landscapes: the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in Southern California and Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument in Northern California. The move follows calls from tribal nations, Indigenous community leaders and others for the permanent protection of nearly 120,000 acres of important cultural and environmental land. The U.S. National Park Service notes that the action is allowed under the Antiquities Act of 1906. The act authorizes the president to legally protect cultural and natural resources on federal lands that are historic, prehistoric or of historic or scientific interest.
Nearly 50 years later, Asian American and Pacific Islander month features revelry and racial justice
It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and their accomplishments should be recognized annually across the nation. What started as just one week in May has evolved over the decades into a monthlong tribute of events in cities big and small. What's also progressed is the nature of celebrations. Asian American and Pacific Islander or Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is not just about showcasing festive fare like food and fashion, but hard subjects like grief and social justice. The rise of anti-Asian hate during the pandemic only heightened those intentions.
President Joe Biden’s 2021 recognition of the month of April as Arab American Heritage month was the first of its kind and is significant for …
Anna passed away peacefully on Friday, March 29, 2024 at the age of 94. Anna was born in San Francisco on July 23, 1929 to the late Radovan &a…
Anti-smoking groups are suing the U.S. government over a long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes, which has been stalled at the White House for months. The lawsuit filed Tuesday aims to force federal officials to publish a rule banning menthol cigarettes, which are mostly used by Black smokers and young people. Health officials under President Joe Biden initially targeted last August to publish the rule. Then the date slipped until late 2023 and then March this year. Three anti-smoking groups filed the lawsuit in California after the White House missed the latest deadline. The Food and Drug Administration has stated that banning the minty flavor could prevent hundreds of thousands of smoking-related deaths.
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A group of Buddhist faith leaders and community members gathered in the city of Antioch for the "first national Buddhist memorial service and pilgrimage in response to anti-Asian hate." The goal of the March 16 event was to use karmic cleansing through chants, prayer and testimony to start healing racial trauma caused by the anti-Chinese immigrant discrimination and destruction of a Buddhist/Taoist temple in the 1800s. Buddhist leaders from a diversity of faith traditions came to the event titled "May We Gather." The gathering also marked the third anniversary of the Atlanta mass shooting in which six women of Asian descent were shot dead.
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More than 40 years ago, Oliver McElhone immigrated to the United States from County Derry, Ireland — now, alongside his family, he brings an a…
Under a heavy police presence, thousands of people bade farewell to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at his funeral in Moscow. It came two weeks after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony. The crowds who thronged to honor Navalny outside a church and cemetery in a snowy southeastern suburb of the capital chanted slogans for the late opposition leader and against Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine, turning the event into one of the largest recent displays of dissent. But police did not act against them. Elsewhere in Russia, at least 131 people were reported detained at events in Navalny's memory. Navalny was buried after a short Russian Orthodox ceremony.
