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

The world premiere of the musical “Wonder” is a compelling, family-friendly production that tells the story of Auggie, a boy with a facial difference

Tufts Medical Center in Boston has opened an expanded Pediatric Asian clinic that it says will better serve thousands of Asian children and families in the area.

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

When funding for SNAP food and nutrition help for poor and struggling families was in jeopardy, community groups came together to help.

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

In her new documentary, “Removed: Black Erasure in Boston,” local filmmaker and podcaster Sabrina Salvati — better known as Sabby Sabs — takes viewers through the displacement of Blacks in the city.

A sweeping report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund explores three “swiftly changing” Chinatowns in the Northeast: in Boston, Manhattan, and Philadelphia.

Renee Inomata, a Boston-area attorney, who was highly active ­— oftentimes behind the scenes — in the civil rights and Asian American initiatives, died on Dec. 1.

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.

S ardines is a comedy show about death. A 60-minute one-man show, comedian Chris Grace presents a compelling autobiographical monologue about life and death. He shares his personal experiences with grief, deftly swerving from high-energy moments to vulnerably, sharing about losing family members, as well as his husband and Sardines director Eric Michaud’s cancer experience. These well-executed emotional fluctuations included Grace orchestrating an audience a cappella renditi

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.

Chenlu Hou , a Rhode Island resident, is an artist in residence at the Office for the Arts at Harvard for the 2025 to 2026 school year.

The Asian American Ballet Project is transforming an ambitious dance project that expresses the emotional and personal journey of cross-racial adoption into a film that will be played at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The 10-minute film, Reclamation, will screen on a loop from 3 to 8 p.m. in Calderwood Hall during the Museum’s Free First Thursday event on Dec 4.

Review of The Ceremony, which ran at the Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre at Boston University. T he Ceremony is a masterpiece. The sixth play in playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s nine-play cycle about three generations of a Nigerian-American family, The Ceremony features a wedding between a Nepali-American woman (Lumanti Shrestha, played by Mahima Saigal) and a Nigerian-American man (Ekong Ufot, played by Kadahj Bennett). Although the couple is deeply in love, their families and family

The comedy theater performance of Kim’s Convenience is adapted from the hit TV series by the same name, but perhaps it sticks a little too closely to the script.

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