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The White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) is a United States governmental office that coordinates an ambitious whole-of-government approach to advance equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPIs).
TAAF funds an annual survey Social Tracking of Asian Americans in the U.S. (STAATUS) [14] and partners with organizations like the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) and the Stop Asian Hate coalition to provide data about the AAPI community [15] such as the AANHPI women state of safety survey and the Documenting anti-AAPI hate: Codebook.
The Asian American Action Fund (AAAFund) is an American Democratic political action committee founded in 1999. AAAFund's goal is to increase the voice of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in every level of local, state and federal government in the United States.
Federal agencies will now be required to differentiate among Asian American and Pacific Islander groups when collecting data, according to an updated directive from the White House’s Office of ...
As Asian Americans experience high rates of poverty and unemployment, community groups are providing free groceries and meals to thousands every day.
Before the 1960s, Asian immigrants to the United States were often perceived as a threat to Western civilization in what became known as "Yellow Peril".This in turn led to the mistreatment and abuse of Asians in America across generations, through historical incidents like the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Japanese internment camps, and the Vietnam War. [4]
A new analysis found Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders have seen the largest increase in voter registration of any racial group this year compared to 2020.
Violent acts against Asian Americans, like the one which occurred in October 1871, when a mob murdered 19 Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles (Chinese Massacre of 1871), [6] in July 1877, when a crowd in San Francisco burned much of the city's Chinatown (San Francisco Riot of 1877), [7] when miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, killed at least 28 ...