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Artists Won't Give Up the Fight as New Chinatown Jail Looms

A public art programming series investigates the relationship between carceral expansion and the neighborhood’s struggle for self-determination. ....

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Here's what the new proposed history and social studies curriculum on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander could look like

State Senator John Liu (SD-16) and Assemblymember Grace Lee (AD-65) have co-sponsored a bill mandating the inclusion of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and ....

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APA Voice launches 2023 civic engagement coalition to encourage Asian American communities in Queens to participate in upcoming elections – QNS.com

Asian Pacific Americans Voting & Organizing to Increase Civic Engagement (APA VOICE), a non-partisan coalition of community-based organizations that serve ....

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'What's The Point?': A Year After COVID Shut Down NYC Schools, Many Students Struggle To Cope


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It’s been a year since New York City students experienced a normal day of school. As the pandemic abruptly turned life upside down around the world, roughly a million public school kids in NYC were thrust into a wildly inconsistent learning environment, with repeated openings and closings of school buildings and systemwide shifts to online learning as COVID-19 rates surge. The uncertainty amidst the pandemic has caused widespread reports of stress, anxiety and intense mental anguish among students with no definitive end in sight.
One second grader anxiously asks her mom every morning if she’s gotten a call from school about another case that shuts down the building. A teenager who enjoys remote learning has lost crucial engagement and socialization skills, preferring to tackle assignments alone in his bedroom and avoiding group projects. Another student said he has stopped commuting to Brooklyn Tech’s campus because his parents are worried about the rise in a ....

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