During this Asian American and Pacific Islander Awareness Month, we discuss the 2020 election and AAPI women’s participation in it. Many AAPI women reported voting for the first time in 2020, says Jennifer Wang from the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum.
Will Chinatown restaurants that function as community hubs be a thing of the past?
Will Chinatown restaurants that function as community hubs be a thing of the past?
Community members in San Francisco Chinatown are concerned that large banquet-style restaurants that function as community hubs will soon become a thing of the past. Amber Lee reports
SAN FRANCISCO - Community members in San Francisco Chinatown are concerned that large banquet-style restaurants that function as community hubs will soon become a thing of the past.
Supporters say they play a critical role in helping immigrants.
Now, they are struggling to survive the pandemic and the efforts to keep them afloat.
The Pandemic And Racist Attacks Are Devastating America s Chinatowns
The coronavirus pandemic and a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans have significantly impacted the economies and cultural fabric of Chinatowns around the country, and are gravely harming the vitality of some of them, though rallying efforts are underway.
While racism is nothing new for Asian Americans, who have historically been the victims of the racialization of disease in the U.S., the length and intensity of this pandemic has fueled an economic disaster that is increasingly posing an existential threat to Asian American Pacific Islander neighborhoods.
Occurring parallel to a pandemic that has claimed 582,296 lives in the U.S., according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the pandemic itself has disproportionately impacted Asian Americans in San Francisco, with the demographic accounting for 13.7% of the cases but also 52% of the deaths as of M
May 4, 2021 Press Release
San Francisco – Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined Mayor London Breed at the Grand Opening of the Edwin M. Lee Apartments at Mission Bay. Below are the Speaker’s remarks:
Speaker Pelosi. Peace, joy, hope, love, Norman, he’s still here, but he s also – we re joined by Malcolm as well. Malcolm Yeung, thank you. Thank you to Chinatown Community Development Center.
The Mayor talked about this taking a village, and I want to follow up on her very apt theme. And this village is led by Mayor London Breed. She – on this housing subject for her whole official life and probably before that in a volunteer basis. So, many of the things that came to fruition here, have their roots in work that she did as a supervisor, and of course now as Mayor.
Group image of 2021 AAPI Drinks Innovators. Composition courtesy of Larry Lee.
The overwhelmingly white image of alcohol culture eclipses the work of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders whose influence rings through all three tiers of the system.
We have our stars: The recently retired Annette Alvarez-Peters, who moved markets from the helm of a $2 billion wine program at Costco; Alpana Singh, the youngest American woman and only South Asian to achieve the rank of Master Sommelier (which she renounced in 2020 in light of sexual harassment allegations in the organization); and Hae Un Lee, who in 1981 opened a small liquor shop in Las Vegas and grew it into the largest alcohol retailer in Nevada Lee’s Discount Liquor.