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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world premiere of the musical “Wonder” is a compelling, family-friendly production that tells the story of Auggie, a boy with a facial difference. Born with Treacher’s Collins Syndrome, Auggie has ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Margaret Moody landed in Taiwan in the 1980s to study Mandarin, she had no idea the adventure would introduce her to the lively world of traditional Chinese hand puppetry. As she was learning the ...