• Celebrate the Life of Corky Lee

    Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

    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. […]

  • Blessings and Curses of Assimilation

    A conversation with Dr. Franklin S. Odo, Dr. Gary P. Zola, Dr. Riv-Ellen Prell, & Ting-Yi Oei, moderated by Ted Gong. In America, the assimilation process is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, most members of an American minority group aspire to find full acceptance within American society. On the other hand, many resist […]

  • Director’s Discussion: Plague at the Golden Gate

    Chinese American Museum DC 1218 16th St, NW Washington DC

    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 […]

  • Between Black and White

    Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

    Registration for in-person attendance or Zoom link
    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/between-black-and-white-chinese-americans-in-jim-crow-south-tickets-378238500537

  • ACHP Preservation Fellowship

    1882 Foundation is happy to share some good news.  The ACHP and ACHP Foundation is accepting applicants for a national public policy fellowship for historic preservation. The 21st Century Preservation Leaders Fellowship will bring a promising young preservation professional to Washington DC to work with national preservation agencies and organizations in the development and execution […]