ENTERPRISE STORY
100 YEARS OF OVERLOOKED HISTORY: UNCOVERING ASIAN AMERICAN STORIES IN EVANSTON AND THE MIDWEST
SEP 1, 2022 (Evanston Roundtable)
In part one of a four-part series on Asian, South Asian and Pacific Islander histories in Evanston, reporter Hannah Zhihan Jiang tells how Evanston resident Melissa Raman Molitor helped initiate efforts to uncover those stories. In April, Molitor and Jenny Thompson, a historian at the Evanston History Center, agreed to establish the Evanston Placemaking Initiative, a project to research local Asian American history and create living archives of ASPA residents in Evanston.
HOSPITALS DECRY FUNDING CUTS IN BUILD BACK BETTER ACT
Nov 23, 2021 (UPI)
Hospital groups and some members of Congress are demanding Democrats drop the proposed reduction in federal funding for some hospitals that serve large numbers of uninsured patients in the Biden administration’s $1.7 trillion social spending bill, which passed in the House and now awaits a vote in the Senate.
STAKES ARE HIGH FOR AAPIS AS SUPREME COURT REVIEWS TEXAS ABORTION LAW
Nov 8, 2021 (The Yappie)
As states rush to codify abortion bans, some lawmakers and activists are speaking up about the hurdles many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders face—even when abortions are legal.