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Federal Funding Cuts Leave Mississippi’s Vietnamese Health Navigators in Limbo
A year after losing federal funding, Mississippi's only statewide advocacy group for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities is still navigating an uncertain future.

Anna Hu, Mississippi Today
16 hours ago10 min read


Kenya Has No Ebola. But Trump’s Planned Quarantine Facility Has Already Claimed Its First Life
The American government’s decision to build an Ebola quarantine facility over 700 miles away from the outbreak sparked protests, legal concerns, and the untimely death of a teenage boy.

Kang-Chun Cheng 鄭康君
6 days ago6 min read


A Fentanyl Vaccine Is on the Horizon — If Trump Restores Funding for Its Clinical Trials
"We have a fentanyl vaccine, and we lost funding for the Phase I clinical trial because of the current administration’s misalignment on vaccines. … Now we have a bunch of very expensive vials that are just sitting there, ready to go in somebody’s arm."

Zoe Beketova
Jun 266 min read


‘Remembering Is a Form of Protest’: Japanese Prison Camp Survivor Satsuki Ina on the Trauma of Detention
On one hand, being born in a prison camp on U.S. soil made me an American citizen. But when I did research on my family in the FBI files of my parents, there was also a face sheet on me. At 2 months old, I was designated an enemy alien. History proves we can never get complacent about privilege or belonging, and that democracy isn’t a fixed thing.

Simran Sethi, MindSite News
Jun 1516 min read


EXCLUSIVE: Climate-Induced Floods Wash Away USAID-Abandoned Mozambique’s Efforts to Eliminate Trachoma
Before Trump dismantled USAID, Mozambique had been battling hard-to-eliminate trachoma, an eye disease that causes blindness, especially among children. Now, a lack of stable funding and clean water — critical for preventing transmission, but hard to find among the wreckage caused by climate-induced cyclones and flooding — threatens to reverse the country’s modest progress.

Ashley Simango
Jun 27 min read


‘Uprooted Over and Over, You Are Nowhere’: Bhutanese Refugees, Retraumatized by Trump 2.0, See Skyrocketing Suicide Rates
Ohio nonprofit leader Sudarshan Pyakurel on third country relocation and other immigration policies that retraumatize highly vulnerable Bhutanese refugees in the U.S.

Simran Sethi, MindSite News
Apr 115 min read


Wage Cuts, Broken Security: US Tariffs Squeeze Women in India’s Shrimp Industry
In India's Bhimavaram, a massive hub for shrimp exports, the continuing uncertainty over U.S. trade tariffs has left a devastating impact on the lives of women workers.
Laasya Shekhar & Bhaskar Basava
Mar 2311 min read


Filipino American Health Care Workers Are Taking Their Legacy of Fighting for Freedom to Trump
Caregivers are applying lessons from resisting authoritarianism under Philippine dictator Marcos Sr. to the modern-day fight against Trump.

Jasmine Mithani, The 19th
Feb 108 min read


How Immigrant Trauma Rewires A Child’s Brain: An Interview with Harvard’s Martin Teicher
Dr. Martin Teicher explains how immigrant trauma and family separation act as toxic stressors, permanently rewiring a child’s brain, reducing IQ, and increasing the risk of lifelong mental health challenges.

Simran Sethi, MindSite News
Jan 109 min read


As EmPower+ Hangs In The Balance, A Reckoning Of New York’s Uneven Efforts To Lower Household Energy Use — And Power Bills
With the winter chills likely to intensify and spike energy bills, equitable access to clean energy upgrades is more urgent than ever, especially for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, who were deprioritized under the Trump administration and remain underserved.

Zhenjia Zhang
Nov 13, 20256 min read
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