One Detroit’s Commitment to AAPI Coverage Across SE Michigan
As the United States continues its battle against COVID-19 pandemic, it is also battling other social pandemics including a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans. The nonprofit organization Stop AAPI Hate has reported over 10,000 hate incidents over the past year.
One Detroit has been covering the responses and stories of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in Southeast Michigan. You can find more of our local coverage below as well as links to our joint storytelling project, AAPI Story Series, with WDET.
AAPI Story Series:
AAPI News Coverage:
AAPI Events in Michigan:
PBS ‘American Experience’ Documentary | Plague at the Golden Gate: Prejudice Spread Faster Than the Pandemic
PBS ‘American Experience’ Documentary | Plague at the Golden Gate: Prejudice Spread Faster Than the Pandemic
The solo directorial debut of acclaimed film editor Li-Shin Yu. The film takes us back to the turn-of-the 20th-century San Francisco, when a deadly outbreak of bubonic plague in the city’s Chinatown and the hunt to identify its source led to an all-too-familiar spate ...
PBS Documentary | The Asian Americans Pt. 4: Generation Rising
PBS Documentary | The Asian Americans Pt. 4: Generation Rising
As America becomes more diverse, and more divided while facing unimaginable challenges, how do we move forward together? Told through intimate personal stories, PBS' "Asian Americans" five-part documentary series casts a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role tha...
WORLD Channel Documentary | America ReFramed: Chinatown Rising
WORLD Channel Documentary | America ReFramed: Chinatown Rising
Weaving together never-before-seen archival footage and photographs, "Chinatown Rising" reveals a deeply personal portrait of a San Francisco neighborhood in transition. Chinatown activists of the 1960s reflect on their years as young residents waging battles for biling...
Michigan Pan Asian American Conference 2022
Michigan Pan Asian American Conference 2022
Join the Michigan Pan Asian American Conference Saturday, May 28 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for meaningful discussions, interactive activities, guest speakers and free lunch, all in the Canton High School Cafeteria.
PBS Documentary | Unsettled History: America, China, and the Doolittle Tokyo Raid
PBS Documentary | Unsettled History: America, China, and the Doolittle Tokyo Raid
"Unsettled History: America, China, and the Doolittle Tokyo Raid" examines a key moment in American/Chinese history, exploring how the two sides remember this shared event in different ways, the reasons for this divergence and what lessons it may hold for today.
PBS Documentary | The Registry
PBS Documentary | The Registry
This film breaks open the hidden history of the US Army's Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II, a story made possible because of a few aging Japanese American veterans with a little Internet savvy and a lot of determination.
Detroit Writing Room Book Club | Virtual Poetry Reading With “You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids” Author Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Detroit Writing Room Book Club | Virtual Poetry Reading With “You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids” Author Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Join The Detroit Writing Room Book Club for our May author talk featuring an intimate conversation with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, author of "You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids.”
PBS Documentary | The Asian Americans Pt. 5: Breaking Through
PBS Documentary | The Asian Americans Pt. 5: Breaking Through
As America becomes more diverse, and more divided while facing unimaginable challenges, how do we move forward together? Told through intimate personal stories, PBS' "Asian Americans" five-part documentary series casts a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role tha...
Vincent Chin 40th Remembrance and Rededication
Vincent Chin 40th Remembrance and Rededication
"Complicating Narratives: Diverse Voices of the American Midwest” 2022 Midwest Asian American Documentary Filmmakers Convening - Day One
Vincent Chin 40th Commemorative Film Series
Vincent Chin 40th Commemorative Film Series
Vincent Chin 40th Commemorative Film Series - Day One
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