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The exhibit “Busing the Buffer Zone” uses art and theater to explore the experience of Chinatown mothers who boycotted busing of students in Boston Public Schools in 1975. The exhibition, which includes a play by Christina R. Chan and an exhibition at the Pao Arts Center, runs through March 28. The stage readings are slated for March 28 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Pao Arts Center. An open rehearsal is March 20.

Chiune Sugihara defied orders from Tokyo and in an elaborate scheme he issued as many visas as his tired hands could stamp to allow refugees a shot at escape.

At the Josiah Quincy Elementary and Upper Schools located in the heart of Chinatown, Bak-Fun Wong is known as a “living legend.”

The Magic of Tết is one of the 10 works Windy Pham has published in her series of bilingual children books, aiming to celebrate Vietnamese heritage through highlighting the culture and language.

College basketball star Pat Dickert's injury opened unexpected doors: studying and living in Taiwan, coaching in China, and playing in Norway.

Interview with Julie Masis, author of "How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe and Survived the Holocaust in Ukraine."

As we begin the new year, Sampan will run an occasional series of pieces reflecting on literature that has influenced who we were, who we are now, and who we might become as Americans. On July 4, we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. For the purposes of this series, the notion of “literature” include foundational political texts, those that established who we would be as a nation, and those that serve to challenge what we have become.

After 40 years in operation, the Chinese Culture Connection (CCC) of Malden has recently moved to a new location to better serve the community.

Anita Yip, a former Josiah Quincy School student, returns and visits as an adult.

Sampan talks with ‘Pip’ Lewis, the architect behind the award-winning Josiah Quincy Upper School

We believe bigoted and hateful attacks on Somali immigrants, refugees and citizens are harmful to all of society, but especially the most vulnerable, families and children. And we should all stand up against this hate.

For Filipino American History month in October, Sampan, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s Filipino Cultural Club, Hoy! Pinoy!, hosted a live panel of three Filipino American immigrants.

Sept.18 was an exceptionally joyful day for a quiet stretch of Hudson Street in the heart of residential Chinatown. Joined by mayor Michelle Wu and the Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC), city officials and community partners put their shovels down at the parking lot on Parcel R1, which will soon become home to 110 affordable housing units, and more importantly, Boston Public Library’s permanent Chinatown branch.

Tet in Boston is getting bigger. This year the 37th annual Vietnamese Lunar New Year festival will be on Feb. 1, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center.

For a decade the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has been advocating for the civil rights of Muslims in the state. But on the 10-year anniversary banquet for CAIR- Massachusetts on Nov. 22, it was all about the preciousness of time – and, more precisely, how the time to defend civil rights is now.

New exhibit shines spotlight on how the Chinatown area of today was once a hub of Syrian, Lebanese immigration.

Mass. chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations looks back on 10 years of advocating for Muslim rights S ome of the kids were hit and some had their hijabs pulled off. One boy was put in a headlock, punched and sent to the hospital with a broken nose and concussion. Most were harassed and called anti-Muslim and anti-Arab slurs. In total, nearly half of the students who identified as Muslim and were surveyed in a report by the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on

E ach weekday for several years, Macki Mei would take the 40-minute subway ride from her childhood home in Dorchester to Chinatown, where...

Sudden cardiac arrest is an unpredictable emergency. Every year in the United States, there are more than 35,000 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), yet the overall survival rate is only about 10%. This means that out of 10 people who collapse, perhaps only one will survive. Unfortunately, in emergency situations, many bystanders are left unsure of what to do due to a lack of CPR knowledge—missing the best window for saving a life.

A news report on GBH posted recently caught our attention. The story was about how the head of a national media company, Brian Timpone,...