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June 27, 2022 0

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

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 […]

June 26, 2022 0

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 […]

June 17, 2022 0

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 […]

June 17, 2022 0

Great Replacement Theory: How racist ideology is fueling hate and fear and mass shootings

by Sampan Staff

On May 14, 2022, an 18 year old male traveled four hours to a supermarket in a predominantly African neighborhood and killed ten people. We all want to know the reason, the motive. . No matter how repellent, if a suspected killer leaves 180 pages in the wake of his killings, they must be read to find the answers. Will we find the reasons for the other mass shootings? However much we might want to move beyond these mass shootings […]

June 17, 2022 0

Pride Month 2022 is powered by hard work and commitment

by Sampan Staff

Asian communities around the world are celebrating Pride Month and opening new space for every expression. Pride Month has grown considerably since the early days after the 1969 Stonewall Riots. The Riots gave rise to the Gay Rights Movement. NAAAP Boston has scheduled many events for Pride Month.. Beginning with different perspectives, NAAAP Boston released a collection of first-person narratives coined the “Coming Out Collection”. Honoring Coming Out Day (October 11), each narrative shares a different story about the journey […]

June 17, 2022 0

As Court Decision Looms, Remembering Boston’s Abortion Rights Legacy

by Jeff Millman

The relationship between medicine and law is complex and contentious. Rulings that have a finality in the public imagination are often put to the test in the real world, their consequences and exceptions worked out in a fashion far from ideal. The closing words of Supreme Court opinions – It is so ordered – suggest a solidity these rulings rarely have. Roe vs. Wade is no different. Just months after the Court released its opinion on the case, it was […]

June 17, 2022 0

The Shanghai COVID Shutdown: searching for hope in the midst of extreme measures

by Chelsea Wang

[Editor’s note: On June 2, 2022, Shanghai neighborhoods returned to lockdown status only a day after restrictions were eased. This article is an account of the struggles experienced during the course of the initial lockdown. It is an ongoing story that Sampan will continue to cover.] After a two-month lockdown of Shanghai, it appears as if things may return to normal in the near future. New infections have been falling for days. Public transportation routes and essential businesses–such as convenience […]

May 24, 2022 0

Japanese Breakfast and Mitski: Two Asian American Musicians Expanding the Conversation on Representation in Popular American Culture

by Moninisha Yadav

What is ‘indie rock’? Is it truly free from the restraints of corporate record label mandates, or is it simply the audio equivalent of a finely assembled glossy fashion spread in a magazine? Commerce usually likes to think it can manage the tastes and inclinations of the record-buying public, but in recent years some artists have challenged and expanded the pre-conceived notions of genre conventions that have been long populated (and dictated) by white people. Japanese Breakfast and Mitski are […]

May 24, 2022 0

Massachusetts Senate Passed the Work and Family Mobility Act for Lack Federal Status

by Max Wei

Not everyone in Massachusetts has the right to drive. For some residents without federal immigration status, the inability to obtain a legal Driver’s license can totally prevent them from working and providing for their families. There are many jobs throughout Massachusetts where public transportation essentially does not exist and therefore they cannot get to them. And still there are other jobs where the employer actually requires a driver’s license and even a car. Also, consider the plight of newly arrived […]

May 24, 2022 0

Women’s Rights are Threatened; Immigrant Women Especially Vulnerable

by Jeff Millman

Abortion rights in the United States are under threat. At the beginning of this month a draft of a majority opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaked to Politico. The draft suggests that the Supreme Court will overturn the decisions it made in Roe vs. Wade nearly fifty years ago and in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey thirty years ago. In 1973, the Supreme Court decided that criminal abortion statutes, which excepted from criminality only those procedures that would […]

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