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Brendan Seibel
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Jun 20, 2018
How NYC tenements once hid secret sweatshops
Immigrant families worked punishing hours in dilapidated apartments just to survive
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Jun 5, 2018
America’s forgotten Filipino farmworkers: If you know Cesar Chavez, you should know Larry Itliong
When Filipino and Mexican laborers united, they had more power
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May 15, 2018
This smart, funny indie film shattered Asian American stereotypes
‘Chan Is Missing’ was a fresh look inside San Francisco’s Chinatown
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Imran Siddiquee
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Apr 19, 2018
These rich white bros started an East Coast caste system to continue their domination of America
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Mar 22, 2018
This Indian woman fled British colonial rule, only to fight another kind of oppression in the U.S.
In early 20th century California, Kala Bagai faced a language barrier and discrimination, but that didn’t…
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Mar 14, 2018
The 1968 student walkout that galvanized a national movement for Chicano rights
A group of high school students in East Los Angeles walked out of school to protest overcrowded classes, run-down…
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Feb 23, 2018
This fearless Mexican American reporter fought racism and sexism to keep power in check
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Feb 20, 2018
“Operation Wetback”: The 1954 mass deportation scheme praised by Donald Trump
Though the United States has since abandoned the racial epithets in operation names, its legacy lingers
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Feb 14, 2018
Little more than 70 years ago, Italians were the poverty-stricken immigrants from an “undesirable” country
More than 600,000 Italians who had immigrated to the U.S. were classified as “enemy aliens.” They…
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Laura Smith
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Feb 4, 2018
The shameful treatment of Italian immigrants during WWII shows America’s propensity for xenophobic hysteria
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