Best-selling author Walter Isaacson will headline the festival, which is presented by the College of Humanities. Isaacson will appear live at Centennial Hall on Oct. 8.
One grew up in a community that was Black and Chinese. The other read 'Malcolm X' at age 10 after a teacher denied her family’s history. A conversation about what Asian and Black solidarity means to them.
13-year-old Ashlyn So organized an Asian and Black solidarity rally in Oakland, uniting two communities that have often been pitted against each other but that also have a long history of collaboration.
There's a long, complex history between Black and Asian communities in America that's often portrayed as conflict. But that misses the moments of solidarity, resistance and collective power.
The story and contributions of Indian American Congressman Dalip Singh Saund and Sikh American writer and lecturer Bhagat Singh Thind featured in a 2020 documentary series by PBS and WETA,