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March 25, 2023 0

Tufts Initiative Helps Fund Chinatown Organizations

On Monday, February 27, 2023, Tufts Medical Center hosted a community benefits reception to bring community partners together to meet or re-connect with one another, learn about each other’s efforts, share best practices, and collaborate on initiatives that will improve the health of the community for years to come. Tufts MC awarded grants to 20 community partners, including 5 based in Chinatown, who will support and uplift Boston residents with programs focused on behavioral health, access to care and services, […]

March 25, 2023 0

Controversies around the TikTok Ban

by Aili Liu

On Wednesday, March 15th, the Biden administration explicitly demanded the Chinese company ByteDance, owner of TikTok, to sell their stakes or face a possible national ban of the app in the U.S. While this is the closest that the popular video app has been to an actual ban, it is not the app’s first time facing threats of banning. TikTok has gone viral since the beginning of the pandemic. Since then, TikTok’s influence has extended beyond social media into popular […]

March 25, 2023 0

The Economic Movement Behind Universal Basic Income

by Kristen Si

Over the past several years, many Americans have felt little optimism about the economy. The Labor Department’s February consumer-price index reveals a 6.4% inflation rate, a far cry from the annual average of 1.88% between 2012-2021. Some economic woes may be due to the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused a mass recession and soaring unemployment rates. According to a June 2022 article by Roxanna Edwards, Lawrence S. Essien, and Michael Daniel Levinstein from the U.S. Bureau of Labor […]

March 25, 2023 0

Through Farsi, Iranian-American Grocer and Newly Settled Afghan Refugees in Belmont Find Common Ground

by Kevin A. Mani

Zohreh Beheshti, an Iranian immigrant who came to the United States in 1998, has become a success story in the Massachusetts town of Belmont. She runs Super Vanak, a small grocery store she started with her husband in March 2021. She said she opened the store because there were no other Iranian grocer nearby to serve the large Iranian population who want to get food from their homeland. What she did not anticipate was the number of Afghan immigrants from […]

March 24, 2023 0

Video Games Shape Who We Are: Studies Reveal Subliminal Influence and Control

by Sonia Cavazos

The design of video game characters and the way they perform can become problematic when they promote harmful gender and racial stereotypes, and unrealistic body modifications, an occurrence termed “virtual enfreakment”. The confluence of gaming and the design of the characters is critical to understand. Dr. Sercan Sengun, from the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality, studied this phenomenon and concluded that this influence is dependent upon the cultural sensitivity of the designers in the industry. An approach to be more […]

March 24, 2023 0

Actress Michelle Yeoh Scores Historic Win at the Oscars

by Bolin Shen

“For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. This is proof that… dream big, and dreams do come true,” Michelle Yeoh Academy Awards 2023 Michelle Yeoh won Best Actress at the 95th Academy Awards, making history as the first actress of Southeast Asian descent to win this recognition. She won for her role as Evelyn Wang in the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” The film, directed […]

March 11, 2023 0

What is the Solution to America’s Mass Shootings Culture?

by Kristen Si

Fresh in the minds of many Americans is the Monterey Park Lunar New Year shooting this past February 2023 which took the lives of 11 people within a tight-knit community made up of mostly first generation Chinese immigrants. The 72-year-old shooter used a semiautomatic pistol to shoot into a dance hall on the night of a Lunar New Year celebration before being chased by police and ending his own life. What was a lively celebration turned into a site for […]

March 11, 2023 0

The Bipartisan Effort to Add the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution

by Sonia Cavazos

Congresswomen and men, both senators and representatives are working on a bi-partisan effort to add the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Congresswomen such as Ayanna Pressley, Sylvia Garcia, Abigail Spanberger, Cori Bush, Madeleine Dean, and Sydney Kamlager-Dove, along with U.S. Senators Ben Cardin, Lisa Murkowski, Dick Durbin, and Mazie Hirono announced a resolution put forth by the Senate and House of Representatives late last month to help breach the barrier that has been preventing the ERA from appearing in […]

March 11, 2023 0

We Are On The Brink of a Water Catastrophe…….Facing this Crisis Together

by Chetanprett Singh

I recently read a piece by Aryn Baker in Time magazine from Cape Town, South Africa where they are facing acute water scarcity. I read it and sighed, “It sounds horrible, but I am here in the U.S. — shouldn’t bother me, I have enough water and electricity and the Internet of course, but I do sympathize.” Aryn writes: “I’m sure I can handle 6.6 gallons of water a day. I’m already down to two showers a week, and my daughter would go […]

March 11, 2023 0

Gambling Addiction: A Public Health Issue in Asian Communities

by DongDong Yang

How much gambling has negatively impacted Asian communities nationwide becomes increasingly more apparent each time major casinos enter into bidding processes. In a 2019 chicagobusiness.com report, Wynn Resorts explicitly stated their interest in focusing on “high-end Asian gamblers” for their Encore casino in Everett. In a December 2022 New York Times article about Asians and casinos in the New York area, the “complicated relationship” the gambling industry has with its Asian customer base was even more clearly illustrated: “Many of […]

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