Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Iowa’s largest Asian Heritage celebration is this weekend. And Asian drag queens will be on the performance list for the first time.

Host Charity Nebbe and her guests talk about efforts to improve information access for Spanish Speaking Iowans including IPR News En Español and the work of Hola Iowa.

Author Lan Samantha Chang talks about her new novel "The Family Chao."

A year after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter still has a prominent presence in the national conversation. And one other racial group was inspired to do the same thing.

The legislation, which had overwhelming support in the House and Senate, aims to make reporting hate crimes easier and puts resources into monitoring and preventing those crimes.

Iowa’s Filipino-American Society is hosting a COVID-19 vaccination clinic Saturday for members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

A team of advocates from a nonprofit group for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders released their findings from a months-long study on sexual violence in the Iowa AAPI community.

Members of Iowa’s Asian and Pacific Islander community say they are being proactive against Asian hate in the state. Their mission to help raise awareness started this past weekend.