April 25, 2025 | Vol. 54, Issue 8
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Eddie Ahn Draws From His Life as an ‘Advocate’: Artist Chats About Creating Graphic Novel Vietnamese Americans Tell Story of Diaspora in Own Words at 50-Year Anniversary Event Chinatown Eatery Owner Speaks Out Editorial: These Two Judgments Are Worth Reading ‘No One Can Walk It For You’ – Iranian-American Haleh Liza Gafori to Appear in Hub to talk about Her Translation Life

Month: June 2022

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Charting new courses while staying in your lane: Julie Otsuka’s The Swimmers

by Christopher John Stephens

In Julie Otsuka’s remarkable novel The Swimmers, even the most judicious reader might not notice they’re experiencing a miracle. Dive deep to the bottom of this pool and understand that within a few pages, Otsuksa has created a full world of people who feel most alive in the depths below the city where they’ve spent so many years swimming a regimented amount of laps back and forth. One of them, a woman named Alice who is withering away from dementia, will […]

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Do I Feel Safe Without Guns? Living in countries with strict gun controls

by Megan Wong

This is the first in a series of articles in which I am speaking with people from several countries where gun laws are more restrictive. I wanted to explore how they felt living in their countries. This story is about China. With a population of approximately 1.4 billion, China has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world. As a result, it has (at 49.7 million) the third lowest number of guns in the world. I interviewed Yang, […]

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“Debunking Myths and Shibboleths About Asian Affluence and Competition with Natives for Jobs”

by Sampan Staff

The movie Crazy Rich Asians, tiger moms, and competition for acceptance to the Ivies contribute to the myth that Asians are the “model minority” and that they have made it in our society and don’t need assistance. When conflated with the misconception that immigrants take rather than create jobs, xenophobia and persecution flourish and hate crimes perpetrated against Asians are on the rise. The data tell a different story about the socioeconomic condition of Asians in America. The affluence of […]

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From Jane’s Desk.  Should you get a prenuptial agreement before marriage?

by Sampan Staff

Dear Jane Not many people are able (or willing) to honestly answer this question. I have a friend who is requiring that his fiancee sign a pre-nup. In this COVID-19 world, it seems this might be a prerequisite for any relationship. There’s a considerable disparity between his wealth and his bride-to-be, and he has been advised to present this to her just so he can cover his assets if things go bad. My question: Can a pre-nup ever be considered […]

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ON DACA’S 10th ANNIVERSARY, DREAMERS STILL FACE UNCERTAINTY

by Jeff Millman

June 15, 2022 marked the ten-year anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, known as DACA. An executive branch memorandum announced by President Barack Obama, DACA allows some individuals who were brought to the country as children and who maintain an unlawful presence in the United States to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit. DACA does not provide a pathway to citizenship for its recipients, leaving somewhere […]

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Student Loan Debt Crisis: a problem in need of a solution

by Moninisha Yadav

The student loan debt crisis was one of the most important issues in the 2020 election, as well as one of current President Biden’s key promises during his campaign. And for good reason-the student debt crisis so far has led 43 million borrowers to collectively owe around $1.6 trillion. Since 1970, average in-state tuition has risen over 2,000% at both public and private schools, while average student loan debt has jumped 317% on average.  In the last decade alone, tuition […]

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OPINION: In Britain and Australia, Gun Control Was the Obvious Choice

by Jeff Millman

In the spring of 1996, two mass shootings occurred within weeks of each other on opposite ends of the world. Dunblane, Scotland and Port Arthur, Tasmania henceforth became linked in the public consciousness as the sites of some of the worst mass shootings in history. The Dunblane massacre is the deadliest mass shooting ever to have occurred in Britain, while the Port Arthur massacre is the worst to have occurred in Australia. Both events were the starting point of sweeping […]

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Baby Formula Crisis Hits Minority, Immigrant Women

by Sonia Cavazos

Since the shutdown of the Sturgis Michigan Abbot Laboratories plant in February 2022, mothers have been scrambling to find baby formula. That story is widely known. But what is less discussed is how acute the loss of formula has been felt by minority and immigrant women who depend so much on baby formula to go back to work. “My client, Mrs. Wong, began to worry (early on) when the cashier at Stop & Shop told her that she could only […]

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As Shanghai Loosens Lockdown Rules, Residents Cautiously Step into New Freedoms

by Chelsea Wang

After a two months’ long city-wide lockdown, the people of Shanghai were at last allowed on June 1 to freely roam the city. Businesses reopened, and people gathered at landmarks and attractions, eager to celebrate their newfound freedom. Fears of another lockdown, however, plague the city still — and so do fears of renewed restrictions, lost time with family and a further economic toll. To get a window into how the people of the major city perceive the loosening of […]

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Baby Formula Shortage and Minorities

by Sampan Staff

“It’s so sad. It shouldn’t be like this. We need formula for our kid, and where is this formula going to come from?” This is a lingering question from mother of two, Capri Isidoro, struggling to breast feed her one-month-old daughter. After giving birth, the hospital gave her baby formula without consulting her on any wish to breastfeed first, a common occurrence among minority moms. The baby formula shortage puts Hispanic and Black women at risk the most. The CDC […]

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