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
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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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

History as Enpowerment: How and Why Asian American History is Taught

The 1882 Foundation and The American University Project Pengyou invite you to an event on Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 6:30pm EST.  It's taking place in-person in Letts Formal at AU and also on zoom. Please click here to register for the zoom link.