As we begin the new year, Sampan will run an occasional series of pieces reflecting on literature that has influenced who we were, who we are now, and who we might become as Americans. On July 4, we ...

The Voice of Hind Rajab is based on the true story of Hind, the five-year-old trapped for hours in a car in Gaza. She is ...

This February the Galapagos Puppets will put on “The Fiery Mountain and Its Princess” with musician Jimmy Zhao and his ...

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

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. The teaching hospital clinic, which is ...

After 40 years in operation, the Chinese Culture Connection of Malden has recently moved to a new location to better serve the community. “More and more Malden residents can attend our activities now, ...

At one time, the new Josiah Quincy Upper School building that exists today in Chinatown seemed like an impossibility. In fact, for years high school students in the neighborhood were stuck in an old ...

We open with a long, slow pan over the fictional town of East Gladness, Connecticut. This is William Faulkner, John Steinbeck Sherwood Anderson territory. “If you aim for gladness and miss,” the ...

Walking back into Josiah Quincy Elementary School in mid-November felt familiar at first, but it took only a few steps to see how much had changed. I’ve returned many times over the years to my old ...

What makes one Chinatown thrive and another become just an empty symbol of a community? A sweeping report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund explores three “swiftly changing” ...

Fun Home is a beautiful queer memoir-musical about investigating one’s past and wrestling with the maddening slipperiness of memory. It played at the The Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave. in ...

'She really cared about people.' 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.