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Jew’s great-grandfather, M.Y. Lee, played a key role in American history, helping to build the transcontinental railroad. To unite the eastern and western sections of the railroad, Central Pacific hired roughly 15,000 Chinese laborers who each shoveled 20 pounds of rock over 400 times a day to complete the Summit Tunnel at Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Despite their backbreaking labor, when the two great railroads were united at Promontory Point, Utah, M.Y. Lee and his compatriots were excluded from the historic ceremony commemorating the union of East and West.
When Jew witnessed the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations of 1976, she identified a lack of recognition for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. She believes that not only should these communities understand their own heritage, but that all Americans should have an awareness of their contributions and histories in the U.S. Signed into law in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush, the commemorative month honors the
For many citizens of the world, the year 2020 will live in infamy. The COVID-19 virus has infected more than 75 million people and taken the lives of over one million worldwide. In the United States, the situation has been particularly dire with the virus claiming the lives of more than 300,000 Americans. The pandemic has upended people’s day-to-day routines, eliminated jobs, and left many households facing financial hardship. The world has waited anxiously as virologists worked at record speed to produce a vaccine capable of ending the pandemic. Amid the turmoil of COVID-19, the senseless killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and other Black Americans catalyzed protests across the United States and spotlighted police brutality, systemic racism, and the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on people of color.