Over the past couple of months, Aida has been a part of the NCAAT team as a youth intern. She’s done so much during her time here, with one of her most notable accomplishments being the personal project she worked on throughout the internship. Her personal project, “Asian x Black Solidarity and the South: Past…
North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT) opposes the scrutinization of signatures for absentee ballot request forms and envelopes. An alarming study by Asian Americans Advancing Justice found that Asian Americans in California faced higher than average vote-by-mail ballot rejection rates in 2016. Over half of those rejections were due to mismatched signatures. We urge North Carolinians to submit public comments before July 5, 2022, advocating against this discriminatory and unnecessary practice. https://www.ncaatogether.org/OpposeSignatureMatching
I remember applying for a leadership position alongside a white male friend. When the results came out that I was chosen and he was not, there was no congratulations. Instead, he told me, a Chinese American woman, “They probably didn’t choose me because I’m a white male and they’re looking for more diverse applicants.” As…
Have you ever wondered what the true impacts of things such as better transportation, communication, and trade have on our world today? If so, please allow me to introduce you to a phenomenon called “globalization,” a term defined by National Geographic as “how trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and…
During the long 60’s, the term “Asian American” meant something different than it does today. It wasn’t just a demographic category, it denoted a sense of pan-Asian identity that united Asians in both the homelands and America in the struggle against racism, colonialism, and imperialism. But it also united us with other oppressed communities within the United States.
When watching the 2020 film Nomadland, I would not have guessed that it was directed by an Asian American woman. Learning about the director Chloé Zhao made me have the revelation that representation does not have to necessarily be on the screen, but that it can be behind it.
— Written in collaboration with Dr. Zulfiya Tursunova, Sharmin Ahmad, Gerry Lor, and Phian Tran For the fourth and final part of Food Storytelling Collective’s “Cooking for Peace” Recipe series, we present Sharmin Ahmad’s recipe for Bengali Fish Curry with tomato and dill, which she prepared with her son Taj Iman Ahmad Ibn Munir. Sharmin…
For the third part of Food Storytelling Collective’s “Cooking for Peace” Recipe series, we’ll be sharing a Tatar recipe for Zur Belish, provided by Rushana Rakhimova. Rushana was born in Tatarstan. She is a nurse who honors her culture, language, and traditions by passing them onto her three-year old son, Abraham.
We’re back for Part 2 of Food Storytelling Collective’s “Cooking for Peace” Recipe series! This recipe is for Dimlama, a traditional dish from Uzbekistan. It was shared by Aziza Eiffe, who is a proud mother of two kids and the youngest is one month old. She loves hiking and is a big foodie exploring different cultures.
We’re excited to kick off this 4-part series with a recipe for Plov, which is a traditional Uzbek dish! The recipe was shared by Gulnoza Ishanova and Rano Ziyadullaeva. Gulnoza Ishanova is originally from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and currently lives in Morrisville with her son and spouse.
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