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’; directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia, 2025); Viewed at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline. The film recently opened at the Coolidge and at West Newton Cinema in ...

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 ...

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” ...

For decades, Josiah Quincy was seen as a cultural resource for Boston. Now, new city policies and demographic shifts are limiting who can access the institution The Josiah Quincy Elementary School has ...

Juk Sing stands out in the Boston music scene for their unique sound: The band’s specialty is Cantopop — a sub-genre of Chinese pop music originating from Hong Kong. “The golden age of Canto-pop was ...

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 ...

Three generations of Filipino women tell how they got back to their roots after moving to the U.S. For Filipino American History month in October, Sampan, in collaboration with the University of ...

A news report on GBH posted recently caught our attention. The story was about how the head of a national media company, Brian Timpone, who runs Metric Media, was seeking information from public ...

In a neighborhood starved of both new affordable housing and greenery, a development project has forced residents and activists to choose between the two — and the former has won out ... for now. At ...

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 ...

As the cost of living in Massachusetts has risen dramatically for many residents, the Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW) has been campaigning to put rent control — which was abolished decades ago ...