March 15, 2024 | Vol. 53, Issue 5

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Are Food Additives Bad for You?

Potassium bromate, propylparaben, brominated vegetable oil, and red dye number 3: no, this is not a list of materials for an organic chemistry experiment. Instead it’s a group of food additives that will be banned as part of the California Food Safety Act, which California Governor Gavin Newsom signed in October. The legislation won’t go into effect until January of 2027, but it’s made nationwide news – after all, these are common food additives present in everything from fruit cups […]

Food Resources In Boston Not Enough to Feed Everyone

Food insecurity is currently one of the biggest problems for America’s poor. According to the USDA Economic Research Service, an astonishing 12.8% of U.S households were food insecure in 2022, meaning that they had a difficulty in providing an adequate amount for all family members due to a lack of resources. This equates to over 44 million people in the United States that went hungry, including 13 million children. Food insecurity rates vary significantly across the country, but in all […]

Ping Pong Serves as a Bridge Between Cultures, Generations

As many families across the country celebrated Thanksgiving with traditional turkey dinners, a group of local Asian Americans marked the occasion by competing in a ping pong tournament. Inside the Malden High School gym, students and adults competed during the holiday in the event led by Mei Hung, executive director of the Chinese Culture Connection. “Like other sports and arts, ping pong helps people who have language barriers communicate,” Hung said, adding that holding different divisions allowed participants of all […]

Asian American Organizations Join Protest Of Spy Law Viewed as Perilous to Civil Liberties

Last month, 63 Asian American organizations gathered as a coalition to protest the reauthorization of Section 702. In a recent explainer, AP writer Eric Tucker laid out the facts:“Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, allows the U.S. government to collect without a warrant the communications of targeted foreigners outside the United States. Law enforcement and intelligence officials see the program as vital to combating terror attacks, cyber intrusions, espionage and other foreign threats. The program, created in the […]

Artist Tammy Nguyen Asks, ‘What Is A Farm?’

In Tammy Nguyen’s self-titled exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, she repeats a question that was originally posed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, “What is a farm but a mute Gospel?” It’s a question that Nguyen is prepared to try to answer through her paintings, collage, and self-published art books in the exhibit. Nguyen is a talented artist, born 1984 in San Francisco.Her father was a Vietnamese refugee. Her work spans several disciplines across environmental, geopolitical, and spiritual […]

Know Superfund Sites Near You. Report New Ones

Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021, a total of $3.5 billion was allocated for Superfund cleanup work. The “first wave” of funding of approximately $1 billion aimed to fund, initiate cleanup, and clear the backlog of 49 previously unfunded Superfund sites including the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site in Massachusetts. Between 1940 and the late 1970s, at least two manufacturers in New Bedford used PCBs while producing electric devices and disposed of industrial wastes containing PCBs directly into […]

Nobel Prize Winner Claudia Goldin ‘Made Women a Topic of Study for Labor Economists’

Labor economist and historian Claudia Goldin will be honored on Dec. 10 as the 2023 Nobel Prize for Economics laureate for her contribution to understanding women’s labor markets outcomes. She was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences on Oct. 9. Born in the Bronx borough of New York to Jewish parents, Goldin initially studied microbiology because of her fascination with Manhattan museums. While at Cornell University for undergraduate school, she identified her passion for history and economics and […]

Massachusetts Has One of the Lowest Rates of Gun Violence in the U.S. But it’s Rising and Now Lawmakers Are Starting to Take Action

Massachusetts has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States and consequently is among the states with the lowest rates of gun violence and gun deaths. Meanwhile, in contrast, in the last decade, gun homicides and suicides have been trending upwards in the US. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen weakened state gun control laws and particularly set back state legislation in place to protect their residents from […]

Biweekly Immigration News: Federal and State Updates

Migrant families continue to arrive in Massachusetts. They are sheltering at Logan Airport because they have nowhere else to go. Just before Thanksgiving, state officials announced a plan to house k in need of shelter in the second-floor conference rooms of the State Transportation Building in Boston. The Massachusetts House has discussed using Hynes Convention Center as another site. Few details have emerged regarding new overflow shelters however, as the weather gets colder the calls for action will grow more […]

Believing There’s an ‘Average’ Asian American is a Dangerous Assumption

In a collection of his autobiographical writings published in 1907, the American writer Mark Twain cited approvingly a little aperçu that there are three kinds of lies – lies, damned lies, and statistics. Would you cross a river that is four feet deep on average? Hopefully not, since it might be a foot deep in parts and seven feet deep in other parts: four feet deep on average, surely, but not necessarily safe to cross.What if you are diagnosed with […]

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