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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several Asian American groups and leaders are blasting a newly revealed State Department policy to prevent many Chinese international students from studying in colleges and universities in the United ...

First there were the threats of crackdowns on immigration. Then there were the detentions of international students who had done nothing wrong. Then the deletion of many student visas and then … their ...

Longtime Chinatown-based sculptor and painter Wen-ti Tsen is among three Boston artists recently awarded the Wagner Arts Fellowship. The new arts fellowship – also awarded to L’Merchie Frazier and ...

As the Boston Transportation Department continues to engage community members in plans to improve Phillips Square in Chinatown, a new idea has caught on with neighborhood residents, community leaders, ...

Vivien Li has not only witnessed the growth of the environmental movement in the United States since the 1970s, she’s participated in and helped shape it right here in Boston. As a waterfront and ...

During the height of Covid in 2020, environmental policy advocate Eddie Ahn started what he thought was just a pandemic project — posting snippets of his comic book memoir to social media. The posts — ...

Walking through Chinatown today, you will encounter layers of its identity: the memories of a Chinatown long gone, the visions of a Chinatown that could have been, the Chinatown that remains a home ...