Ethnic Studies Student Association

CID Coalition & Chinatown Art Brigade: Week of Action CID Art Projection This is "CID Coalition & Chinatown Art Brigade: Week of Action CID Art Projection" by M Chan on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people…

"Yuhaniz, Samir, and Abdulgani, three Cham American high school students, chronicle their experiences during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. (2018)

Best Student Film - 2019 SEAxSEA Festival
Official Selection - 2019 Seattle Asian American Film Festival"

Ramadan Yuhaniz, Samir, and Abdulgani, three Cham American high school students, chronicle their experiences during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. (2018) Best Student…

LANA, SEARAC commend bills supporting Laotian model curriculum, ethnic studies high school requirement - SEARAC The Laotian American National Alliance (LANA) and the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) applaud California’s continued commitment to advancing ethnic studies curriculum for California’s public K-12 school systems by introducing California... Read more

Asian American women make 85 cents for every dollar that a white man earns, but we know there is more to the story. Today, on AAPI Women's Equal Pay Day, we are calling attention to the the wage gap that Cambodian, Laotian, Hmong, Vietnamese, and other AAPI women experience. Join us for a Tweetstorm at 2 pm EST led by our partners at National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF).

Helen Stafford was a civil rights advocate from Tacoma, and the first African American case worker for DSHS. In 1971, she was named the State Woman of Achievement by the Washington State Business and Professional Women’s Clubs Association, becoming the first African-American woman in the state to receive the honor.

On her 100th birthday in 1999, the Tacoma City Council declared the it “Helen Stafford Day.” Today, Stafford Elementary School in Tacoma is named after the iconic woman.



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Rarely represented in media, Seattle Cham Muslim youth filmed their own documentary, 'Ramadan' | International Examiner Young people from the Southeast Asian Muslim Cham community rarely see themselves represented in the media. But now, three Cham youth in south Seattle have brought their stories on screen in a documentary titled Ramadan

More than 700 sign high school student petition to add Asian American studies classes When Ashley Shim took high school history classes, she noticed something was missing. Most of the people featured in the textbooks didn’t look like her. And they didn’t look like many of the other students in the Irvine Unified School District, where half of the student body is Asian American.

Fight for ethnic studies at the February 6th Seattle School Board mobilization. Learn more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/787429808274817/?ti=icl

The Black Lives Matter At School Coloring Book–Make this year’s week of action beautiful! Black Lives Matter At School is excited to announce our new, free, downloadable coloring book for young children and all those young at heart. To download the coloring book, visit: This coloring bo…

Law mandates black history curriculum in all Illinois public schools Illinois public elementary and high schools — as well as state and community colleges — must include a black history unit, according to a law that went into effect Jan. 1. The law mandates that the slave trade, African-American contributions to U.S. history and the socio-economic struggle experi...