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California railroad museum ceremony highlights often-overlooked efforts of Chinese workers
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 12 months agoChinese workers made up 90% of the West Coast railroad workforce, but their contributions are often...
New monument honoring Chinese railroad workers to be added to Utah Capitol
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMembers of the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association and other leaders pose with shovels...
Descendants of Chinese railroad workers break ground for monument at Utah State Capitol
KTVX via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association (CRWDA) broke ground on a new monument to be...
Exhibit at California State Railroad Museum honors Chinese railroad workers
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe California State Railroad Museum held a ceremony honoring Chinese immigrants who helped build...
Filmmaker tells story of Chinese immigrants in the American South through family's eyes
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFor filmmaker Baldwin Chiu, personal history makes for good cinema. About a decade ago, eager to...
Despite racist barriers, Fort Worth’s early Chinese residents slowly built livelihoods
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 11 months agoChinese immigrants arrived in Fort Worth by at least the early 1870s. Despite laws against...
10 outdoor sites to learn more about Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander heritage
Stacker via AOL· 2 months agoMalachi Jacobs // Shutterstock Since the nation's earliest days, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians,...
Opinion/Your Turn: Who will fill jobs left empty due to the labor shortage? Immigrants.
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere now exists in this nation a labor shortage in the construction industry, and the recent...
The Baltimore bridge collapse reminds us immigrants often do unheralded and dangerous work
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoImmigrants built America, but some politicians and pundits would like us to believe that the great...
Sacramento had a thriving Chinatown at the center of the city. What happened to it?
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBehind the shadow of Sacramento’s downtown is a quiet and mostly vacant square — one that holds a...