When Ameera went to their high school prom, it was a lavender situation. They identified as a lesbian at the time and attended with their male gay best friend to Bourne Mansion on Long Island, where ...

Sampan chats with Eric Antoniou about his book ‘Rock To Baroque’ and the immigrant experience. The first face we encounter in Eric Antoniou’s collection of music photography is David Bowie’s. There he ...

Powerful. Fractured. Rich. Neglected. These are all words that respondents to the statewide survey “Making Waves,” released just last month, used to describe the Asian American Pacific Islander art ...

Seeing Raveena live is a special experience. Her performance at the Paradise Rock Club on May 15 not only featured her signature silky voice, but also immersed the audience in an atmosphere steeped in ...

‘We Who Produce Pearls’ Fills in What the History Books Left Out Sampan Talks With Author, Artist About Asian Americans’ Shared Story, Resistance and Healing ...

John C. Yang has held important positions in U.S. government, but also knows what it’s like to be vulnerable to immigration law. He was, as a kid, among the nation’s many undocumented immigrants — ...

Photojournalism at its best will do what the dedication of this book promises. It will afford recognition, respect, and equality to the subjects it presents. In this remarkably thorough and ...

The balance between creating a trendy world in Fantasy novels or contemporary Young Adult (YA) fiction and managing to say something that matters can be tricky. More often than not, genre fiction asks ...

As an Asian American rapper, Kold Kwan is aware that he’s challenging the status quo. “I know that I’m not gonna be everyone’s cup of tea,” Kwan, 29, said in an interview with Sampan. But he’s more ...

If a sense of belonging requires a secure sense of place and identity, the very act of engaging in a diaspora means the goal will always be out of reach. In their new book Where I Belong: Healing ...

For years, Paul Watanabe, director of the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass-Boston, would get a version of the same question from policymakers and journalists: What issues do Asian ...

Across the country, many people have been outraged by the U.S Supreme Court’s recent decision in overturning Roe v. Wade, an almost 50 year precedent. In the Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health ...