When a reader has to walk that vulnerable space between style and substance, falling deeply into the former at the sake of the latter, there’s a literary problem. If a writer consistently offers a ...

At a time when immigrants and refugees in the U.S. are increasingly coming under threat of detention, deportation and having their legal status swiped away, a public art installation in Boston will ...

For years, Paul Watanabe, director of the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass-Boston, would get a version of the same question from policymakers and journalists: What issues do Asian ...

As artist Maggie Wong talks about her early childhood in Oakland, California, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she pauses. Stopping halfway through a sentence describing the group to which her ...

Art can be beautiful, art can attack, or it can do both at the same time. It has long been used to challenge the status quo, and Sheida Soleimani, a 33-year-old visual media artist and Brandeis ...

Artist Jaeok Lee immigrated from her home in Nak Won Dong, in the heart of Seoul, to the United States in 1974. Now based in Sudbury, 71-year-old Lee has a home and studio atop a hill — a pocket of ...

If a sense of belonging requires a secure sense of place and identity, the very act of engaging in a diaspora means the goal will always be out of reach. In their new book Where I Belong: Healing ...

For Adam King, his shoe line, 1587 Sneakers, is about more than just footwear. It’s about identity and pride. “We want all people to be unapologetically themselves,” said King. “For me, that’s being a ...

With the 2020 presidential election approaching, political participation and civic engagement are more crucial than ever. According to the Pew Research Center, Asian Americans are the fastest growing ...

Photojournalism at its best will do what the dedication of this book promises. It will afford recognition, respect, and equality to the subjects it presents. In this remarkably thorough and ...