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From PAMANA

Congratulations to our 2021 PAMANA Scholars, Maya Barut and Ebba Harrison! PAMANA is pleased to award $1,000 scholarship to this year's grant awardees. The award was announced during the Annual Member Meeting held on Sunday, May 2. Children of PAMANA members planning to pursue higher education after high school can apply for a scholarship grant. The annual application deadline is April 15. -- CLICK STORY TO READ MORE

By Katrina Mulligan, Brette Steele, Simon Clark, Asha Padmanabhan, and Rachel Hunkler

Overview: America needs a comprehensive strategy to tackle the urgent and complex threat of white supremacist violence.

White supremacist violence is not new, but in recent years, it has become a primary national security threat in the United States. Notions of racial superiority, hostility toward immigrants and minorities, and the myth of an embattled white majority defending its power have increasingly infiltrated mainstream American political and cultural discourse.-- CLICK STORY TO READ MORE

By Tom K. Wong, Anna Coleman, Pabitra Khati Benjamin, Aakriti Khanal, and Silva Mathema

The Center for American Progress has partnered with Adhikaar, a Nepali human rights and social justice organization, and the U.S. Immigration Policy Center (USIPC) at the University of California, San Diego for what we believe to be the first systematic survey of Nepali Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders. TPS has provided work authorization and protection from deportation to approximately 14,800 Nepali individuals in the United States since 2015. The new survey makes clear that Nepali TPS holders have used their immigration status to make significant economic and societal contributions and have put down deep roots in American society.. -- CLICK STORY TO READ MORE

From APIAVote

In the 2020 Presidential Election, President Joe Biden carried Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes. According to an analysis by TargetSmart, voter turnout among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (“AAPIs”) surged over 62,000 votes over 2016, a clearly decisive part of Georgia’s margin of victory which was fewer than 12,000 votes. Furthermore, over 1.6 million votes were cast by Black, Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, and Native American voters in 2020, comprising approximately 35% of total votes cast. When considering the margin of victory, the ballots cast by this multi-racial coalition of non-white voters surpassed the margin of victory by over a million votes. -- CLICK STORY TO READ MORE​

From OCA--Advocates for Asian Americans

Even though the word “hate crime” was a relatively new term in public conversation at the time, some people in the APA community recognized that the race-based motive underlying Vincent Chin’s murder warranted a different response than the court gave. Several APA community leaders, including those within OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates(OCA),started to organize their own efforts to achieve justice for the Chin family and for the community. It was a watershed moment. ​ --CLICK STORY TO READ MORE