Going on the Journey of Learning to Respect Our Elders

by | Sep 15, 2022

Growing up in the United States, in a predominantly white neighborhood and attending predominantly white schools, I experienced an identity crisis in my youth: I wanted to be Caucasian. I wanted to disconnect myself from my Chinese roots. I perceived all Chinese...

Walls Are Not Black and White

by | Aug 30, 2021

We live 65 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border and the Wall looms large in our psyche. But the U.S. wall is not the lone border wall; walls to separate and contain, protect and imperil, have been built in many different geographies and eras across world history. Facts...

Untold Stories, Unsung Heroes

by | Sep 9, 2020

Beauty is around you. You have to discover it and use your heart to feel it.               —Inside Chinatown Participant “Seafood Encounters” is a photo of the fish counter at a local grocery store with a male Chinese worker in the background filleting a fish. The...