Playwright Stan Lai talks with Sampan.
In Copley Square, in front of the Boston Public Library, several hundred people formed a human chain in 10-degree ...
College basketball star Pat Dickert's injury opened unexpected doors: studying and living in Taiwan, coaching in China, and playing in Norway.
Trudi Frost, along with another Asian American, Irene Cho, were the focus of a little publicized campaign to get the two women freed from Israeli detention, where they were held from Dec. 12 to about ...
What makes one Chinatown thrive and another become just an empty symbol of a community? A sweeping report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund explores three “swiftly changing” ...
‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’; directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia, 2025); Viewed at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline. The film recently opened at the Coolidge and at West Newton Cinema in ...
Juk Sing stands out in the Boston music scene for their unique sound: The band’s specialty is Cantopop — a sub-genre of Chinese pop music originating from Hong Kong. “The golden age of Canto-pop was ...
Cannon Hersey speaks at 'Branches of Hope'. Photo by Adam Smith. A small Japanese woman with thin wire-framed glasses appeared on screen, seated in a wooden chair, ready to begin her testimony. Now 80 ...
A news report on GBH posted recently caught our attention. The story was about how the head of a national media company, Brian Timpone, who runs Metric Media, was seeking information from public ...
At one time, the new Josiah Quincy Upper School building that exists today in Chinatown seemed like an impossibility. In fact, for years high school students in the neighborhood were stuck in an old ...
Three generations of Filipino women tell how they got back to their roots after moving to the U.S. For Filipino American History month in October, Sampan, in collaboration with the University of ...
As the cost of living in Massachusetts has risen dramatically for many residents, the Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW) has been campaigning to put rent control — which was abolished decades ago ...