Living in a multigenerational household might be the norm if you come from a big ethnic family. But how is it different during a pandemic? Delilah Alvarado reports on what that’s been like for some young BIPOC adults. Read the full story at YR Media.
Read More The Mental Price of Moving Back In With Your Big Ethnic FamilyWhat happens when your own father emotionally abuses you? That’s something youth poet Alexis Zuniga has been struggling to answer for most of her life. In this heartfelt poem from The kNOw, she explores feelings of abandonment, mistrust and betrayal. “I needed you,” she writes. “A daughter needs her father.” Read the full poem on […]
Read More Blinded SilenceOn the night of February 10, Richmond teenager Antoine Whittley got into a rideshare car bound for Point Richmond. When they reached the Richmond-San Rafael bridge, Whittley exited the car, and hasn’t been seen since. Despite the limited success of the attempts by Richmond Police to locate their son, Tanetta Morgain and Anthony Whittley are […]
Read More Antoine Whittley’s Family Keeps Up Search For Him And Closure“When COVID-19 came to America and I heard our former president associating it to folx with Asian ancestry like myself…I was reminded that as a Vietnamese American, this kind of anti-Asian sentiment is not unfamiliar. It’s an unsettling truth that became so prominent that President Biden wrote a memorandum explicitly calling out racism, xenophobia and […]
Read More 5 Organizations Combating Asian American XenophobiaHow do you capture the politics and personality of Fred Hampton: Black revolutionary, activist, and victim of the US Government’s violence? Writer/Director Shaka King decided to tell the story through the eyes of an FBI informant, sent to infiltrate the Black Panthers and assist in dismantling them. YR Media’s Riley Lockett reviews the film. View […]
Read More ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Shines, But Stings TooIshan Singh, AKA the Pantoglot Poet, shares how he frames his thoughts around 2020 and the ongoing pandemic. “It’s like how Forrest Gump used to say: Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get,” he explains. “Well many of us surely didn’t like our 2020 box of chocolates […]
Read More 2020: A Box of Chocolates – The Pantoglot Poet PodcastOver the past year, Torm Nompraseurt has seen many Laotian community traditions disrupted because of quarantine. Fortunately, he’s been able to create a sense of togetherness by sharing information about the coronavirus with his community.“People don’t know what to do because they want to talk to each other, they want to connect with each other. […]
Read More Laotian Seniors In Richmond Tackle Barriers To Health CareIn February, the Richmond, California city council voted to change the site of their year-long safe parking program that will provide services to homeless people with vehicles. The city had initially planned on using the Hilltop Mall parking lot, but after pushback from the neighborhood, moved to change the location to Civic Center. However, the […]
Read More Council Reverses Hilltop Decision, Picks New Location For Safe Parking Program“Utang Na Loob” tells the story of one family’s quest to be together. Jan Victor Andasan’s mother immigrated to the United States from the Philippines just two months after Jan Victor was born. For the first seven years of their life, the two communicated through cassette tapes neatly tucked away in cardboard boxes. But when […]
Read More Utang Na Loob: Collage Animation Documentary Explores Immigrant Family SeparationThe pandemic has impacted all of us in unique ways, and we’ve each found our own ways to cope. For Cal State Long Beach student Cristian Estrada, working out has greatly boosted his mental health. “I started working out to improve my physical appearance so that I could come out of the pandemic as a […]
Read More Long Beach Youth Share How They’ve Coped With Pandemic-Related Anxieties
