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Return to Gold Mountain Tour

    After a 2-year hiatus, we are resuming our Return to Gold Mountain Tour on OCT 1-2 (Sat-Sun) again.  Registration is now open for this tour with a total package rate of $300/person (double-occupancy). We will leave on a tour bus from the Sacramento RR Museum and tour the iconic sites of the Chinese railroad workers as they built the first Transcontinental Railroad.  We will spend the night in Reno and return to Sacramento by train traveling through some of the same sites. Details…

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06/20/2022
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Directors Discussion: Plague at Golden Gate

More than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor. Join the Chinese American Museum DC in collaboration with AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and the 1882 Foundation on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, from 6:00-7:00 pm ET to discuss the new AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film documentary, Plague at the Golden Gate and meet the film Director, Li-Shin Yu. Registration available for both…

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06/14/2022
1882 Internship / Literature Corner / Literature Corner Blog

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jee Lee — Review by Audrey Sun

What does it mean to be successful? Can you be happy and successful? Min Jin Lee takes a stab at answering these questions, with the backdrop of her home in mind. Lee sets Free Food for Millionaires in Elmhurst, her hometown in Queens, and into the family of Casey Han, the daughter of Korean immigrants who run the local laundromat. The questions of success and happiness thus take on a different spin: how can one find success and happiness while making their parents’ sacrifices worthwhile?…

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06/06/2022

Celebrate the Life of Corky Lee

The 1882 Foundation, Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), and DC Public Library invite you to join us for a pre-premiere screening of film producer Curtis Chin’s short documentary “Dear Corky,” on the “undisputed, unofficial Asian American photographic laureate” Corky Lee. The screening will be offered in person only at the newly renovated MLK Library auditorium. After the film, the filmmakers will participate in an in-person panel discussion with leading photojournalists about Corky's legacy as an AAPI artist with broad connections across communities. This discussion will…