AAPI

Last week, I attended the Lantern festival organized by AAPI Montclair at Edgemont Park with my family. It was a proud moment for Montclair as hundreds of people came together to support AAPI families and all victims of hate. It was a beautiful evening with all the brilliant lights, panels sharing the history of racist violence against Asian Americans, music from Montclair Orchestra members; it wa

The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916), earliest known film with an all Asian American cast and directed by female Chinese American filmmaker Marion Wong / Credit: Cordelia SiporinAfter being restored by Montclair resident Cordelia Siporin,  the silent film The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916), the earliest known film with an all Asian American cast, will be screened virtually next Friday, June 4. The... Read Mor

AAPI Montclair, a grassroots organization of more than 300 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Montclair area, will host its first ever Lantern Festival for Justice and Remembrance at Edgemont Memorial Park on Friday, May 21 from 7 p...

Writer Amber Reed says diversity carries ongoing obligations. "Sometimes it requires us to examine our own biases, or to speak up when it feels safer to be silent."