The 442
Named after the famous military unit, this column is designed to school you (in all the best ways) on accomplished Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in history
Portraits of Nisei Soldiers
Courtesy of the National Archives, photo no. 210-CMB-SA2-1665
Joyce Chen's fame started with making egg rolls for her kids’ school event
How Kim Hak-Soon led hundreds of former ’comfort’ women to speak out against the Japanese military’s sexual slavery system during World War II
Vicki Manalo Draves overcame racism and discrimination to become the first Asian American to win Olympic gold
We take a look back at Duke Kahanamoku, 110 years after the legend's first Olympic games
Forty eight years after the strike, a little history lesson on an immigrant-led revolution
A year after her death, we look back at how Haunani-Kay Trask became a leading voice in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement
As Title XI turns 50, we recognize its main author and sponsor Patsy Mink, the first Asian American woman elected to Congress
The IBM machine was way more complicated than any English typewriter, but Lois Lew made using it look easy
Racism and sexism wasn’t going to stop this legend from accomplishing her dream of becoming an actress
Billed as the “Chinese Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers," though only one was Chinese, this dynamic twosome paved the way for AAPI artists to follow