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The National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA) was founded in 1979 [3] and is a Seattle, Washington-based non-profit [4] and American advocacy and service organization for elderly Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI). NAPCA works to assist AAPI seniors and educate the general public on the needs of the AAPI aging community.
Rosemead is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.The 2020 United States Census reported a population of 51,185. [6] Rosemead is part of a cluster of cities, along with Alhambra, Arcadia, Temple City, Monterey Park, San Marino, and San Gabriel, in the west San Gabriel Valley with a growing Asian-American population.
The Asian-American influx into the southwestern portion of the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, grew rapidly when Chinese immigrants began settling in Monterey Park in the 1970s. Just east of the city of Los Angeles, the region has achieved international prominence as a hub of overseas Chinese, or hua qiao.
The data on immigration to Los Angeles from Asia and the Pacific tell a story older than the city itself: Antonio Miranda Rodriguez, a Filipino recorded in the census in 1783, was part of a group ...
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL) formerly known as Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles (Advancing Justice LA), is a non-profit legal aid and civil rights organization dedicated to advocacy, providing legal services and education and building coalitions on behalf of the Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities. [1]
State Route 19 (SR 19) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California, running along Lakewood Boulevard and Rosemead Boulevard in the Los Angeles area. An additional "hidden" state highway, State Route 164 ( SR 164 ), is also signed as part of SR 19, despite having a legal description separate from Route 19.
Stewart Kwoh was born to American parents teaching in China in Nanjing on September 16, 1948. [5] When Kwoh was two months old, his family moved to Shanghai, then back to America, settling in Los Angeles [6]
East West Players is an Asian American theatre organization in Los Angeles, founded in 1965. [1] As the nation's first professional Asian American theatre organization, East West Players continues to produce works and educational programs that give voice to the Asian Pacific American experience today.