Our AAPI Community

Throughout history, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have contributed to the growth and incredible diversity of this country; they have continually inspired generations with their resilience and creativity. Understand the long road and hurdles they've traversed to make a new life on foreign shores, and explore the many ways that Asian Americans have become integral parts of this nation's social fabric, from arts and culture to politics and governance.

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Syed and Qaiser with their children Qamar and Faozia in front of a home in Los Angeles. | Shades of L.A. Collection / LAPL

Syed and Qaiser with their children Qamar and Faozia in front of a home in Los Angeles. | Shades of L.A. Collection / LAPL

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Asian Americans

Multifaceted: The Cultural Diversity of Asian America

Arts & Culture

City of Ghosts

Artbound

Animated Series 'City of Ghosts' Explores L.A.'s Rich Histories for Kids

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Masters of Modern Design

ICE Not Welcome poster | Audrey Chan, ACLU SoCal

ICE Not Welcome poster | Audrey Chan, ACLU SoCal

Southland Sessions

ACLU SoCal’s First Artist-in-Residence on Creating Art During a Fraught Time

Artbound

Isamu Noguchi: A Voluntary Stay at the Japanese American Internment Camp

Adult art classes learning freehand brush strokes. | Dorothea Lange, War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement / National Archives ABs10 MMD

Adult art classes learning freehand brush strokes. | Dorothea Lange, War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement / National Archives ABs10 MMD

Artbound

Art and the Creation of a Resilient Japanese American Spirit

Swank One at "Don't Believe the Hype"

Swank One at "Don't Believe the Hype"

Artbound

Hip-Hop as Resistance: Exhibition Explores Contributions by Asian-Americans

Ahree Lee, "Permutation" still

Ahree Lee, "Permutation" still

Artbound

We Are More Similar Than We Realize: Interconnecting Identities in the Work of Ahree Lee

Something in the Water: Hip Hop History in Cerritos

Judy Sugita and other Nisei Week Queen candidates at a campaign event in 1953 | Photo courtesy of Judy Sugita

Judy Sugita and other Nisei Week Queen candidates at a campaign event in 1953 | Photo courtesy of Judy Sugita

Departures

Photographs of Nisei Queens Through the Years

A young man holds his hands up in a portrait drawn on wood by Shizu Saldamando.

A young man holds his hands up in a portrait drawn on wood by Shizu Saldamando.

Artbound

Counter Cliché: The Asian and Latino Bi-Cultural Experience

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Departures

Tuesday Night Cafe: A Night Born Out of Activism

Community

Syed and Qaiser with their children Qamar and Faozia in front of a home in Los Angeles. | Shades of L.A. Collection / LAPL

Syed and Qaiser with their children Qamar and Faozia in front of a home in Los Angeles. | Shades of L.A. Collection / LAPL

Asian Americans

Multifaceted: The Cultural Diversity of Asian America

Uncle Van Huynh's mother sews masks for the Auntie Sewing Squad. | Courtesy of Van Huynh

Uncle Van Huynh's mother sews masks for the Auntie Sewing Squad. | Courtesy of Van Huynh

Southland Sessions

Auntie Sewing Squad Bonds Multiple Generations Together to Fight COVID-19

Jocelyn Yow with her family in Malaysia. | Courtesy of Jocelyn Yow

Jocelyn Yow with her family in Malaysia. | Courtesy of Jocelyn Yow

Asian Americans

The Changing Demographics of Asian Americans

A volunteer delivered a supply bag under social distancing guidelines. | Sophat Phea/CCED Organizer via LAist

A volunteer delivered a supply bag under social distancing guidelines. | Sophat Phea/CCED Organizer via LAist

A Grassroots Chinatown Group Looks Out For Its Seniors

A customer at Vicky's Nail Salon receives a manicure in Alameda, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. | Alison Yin for KCET

A customer at Vicky's Nail Salon receives a manicure in Alameda, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. | Alison Yin for KCET

City Rising

When Nail Salon Workers Organize, Customers Also Benefit

Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, prepares to simulate a parachute drop into water during an emergency bailout training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. | Flickr/NASA Johnson/Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, prepares to simulate a parachute drop into water during an emergency bailout training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. | Flickr/NASA Johnson/Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0)

A Woman's Place is in Space: Meet Eight Asian American Women Reaching for the Stars

Departures

How Chinese Entrepreneurs Transformed the San Gabriel Valley