By: Nowshen Pranthi SAPNA NYC is an organization dedicated to supporting the needs of South Asian immigrants living in the Westchester Square and Parkchester neighborhoods of the Bronx. …

By: Nowshen Pranthi The Bangladeshi Historical Memory Project sat with Annie Ferdous, a legendary Bangladeshi choreographer and dancer based in New York. Annie Ferdous is one of the founders of the Bangladeshi Institute of Performing Arts, and she’s been sharing her work with the Bangladeshi community for over 25 years. …

By: Sharmin Hossain Sharmin Hossain talks with Sharmin Sadequee, the sister of Ehsanul Shifa Sadequee, who was charged and imprisoned by the FBI 10 years ago as militarized police forces of the United States began targeting Muslims post 9/11. This April, we honor Shifa who spoke out against the U.S…

Sharmin Hossain sits down with Chaumtoli Huq, public advocate, educator at City University of New York’s Borough of Manhattan Community College, and mother of two beautiful children. Chaumtoli created Law at the Margins, a dynamic social media platform that highlights the ways laws and social justice aspirations work together…

By: Sharmin Hossain Jensine Raihan is a fierce femme working with Desis Rising Up & Moving, a revolutionary South Asian working class organization in New York City. Throughout her years at Townsend Harris High School, Jensine led groundbreaking work addressing anti-Black racism in New York City’s public school system, and…

Amader Golpo: Meet Shahana Hanif, Bangladeshi visionary By: Sharmin Hossain Shahana Hanif and I met while organizing in New York through our mutual friend Alok Vaid Menon; it was love at first sight. Here was this gorgeous, tall Bangladeshi femme born and raised in Brooklyn, wearing this vibrant salwar kameez…

With Bangladeshi residents of New York, the Bangladeshi Historical Memory Project works with oral histories to document the cultures of resilience in the Bangladeshi diaspora. In order to address the historical amnesia around our ancestral lineage, migration and partition stories, this archive serves as a place for historical memory.