Chinese Canadian artist and filmmaker Daphne Xu uses a camera to trace people of diaspora, and recently, she’s set her sights on Boston’s Chinatown, spotlighting “displacement and belonging, erasure ...

State Sen. Nick Collins chats with Sampan about Chinatown, housing, homelessness, more State Sen. Nick Collins represents a diverse slice of Boston in the Suffolk First District, which includes parts ...

As attorney Paul W. Lee receives honorary degree this month, he reflects on his pioneering career As one of the first Asian American partners at a major Boston law firm in the early 1980s, Paul W. Lee ...

Forty-four years ago on June 19, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz brutally attacked Vincent Chin in Detroit, Michigan. Having sustained severe head injuries after being bludgeoned with a baseball bat, ...

If all the immigrants and foreign residents in Massachusetts left the state at once, we’d have big problems. Businesses would likely be forced to relocate or shutter, and entire industries would ...

Half of American adults say yes to the first question, and a concerning 13% of U.S. adults yes to the second question, a report released by The Asian American Foundation finds. Yet, most Asian ...

‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’; directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia, 2025); Viewed at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline. The film recently opened at the Coolidge and at West Newton Cinema in ...

Sept.18 was an exceptionally joyful day for a quiet stretch of Hudson Street in the heart of residential Chinatown. Joined by mayor Michelle Wu and the Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC), ...

Three generations of Filipino women tell how they got back to their roots after moving to the U.S. For Filipino American History month in October, Sampan, in collaboration with the University of ...

What makes one Chinatown thrive and another become just an empty symbol of a community? A sweeping report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund explores three “swiftly changing” ...

Reports of international students getting detained has continued, despite failing to make major headlines in the aftermath of the alarming abductions of Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil. In April a ...

Through the smoke and gasoline of the literal fires that raged through cities like Washington, DC, and Atlanta as a result of the civil unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s May 25th 2020 murder at the ...