Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage

San Francisco’s Chinatown held an AAPI Heritage Festival Saturday, celebrating the backgrounds and cultures of people from many different countries.

San Francisco’s Chinatown has a certain style. But beyond its signature Asian-inspired architecture and restaurants sits another source of unique hipness — its fashionably adorned senior citizens. 

Feature comedy “Joy Ride” is among the highlights at the annual CAAMFest in San Francisco, one of the country’s longest running Asian American film festivals. Ginger Conejero Saab reports.

Thien Pham, a fine arts teacher at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, has published a graphic novel that tells the story of his journey to America, and becoming American, through his eyes. Mike Inouye reports.

Athlete, scholar and actor. Actor Rich Ting has held many titles.

A Hmong refugee now living in Milpitas was recruited by the United States at a young age to become the first Hmong trained nurse during what’s known as the “Secret War.” She would eventually use her position to empower other young women. Gia Vang reports.

President and CEO of ACCI Sarita Kohli talks with Raj Mathai about the importance of looking forward. “I think that having hope and optimism is what keeps us going forward. And, I’ll tell you my hope and optimism comes from seeing successes. From seeing people, folks who have come here as refugees and today are in positions of power...

Diversifying bookshelves is the mission of a new San Francisco-based publishing house.

As video after video turned up showing elderly Asians in the Bay Area being belted with chairs, punched, randomly stabbed or flung to the ground, Hudson Liao became more and more incensed. In his mind, a moral line had been breached. 

NBC Bay Area’s Gia Vang sat down to have a candid and honest conversation about the representation of Pacific Islanders, their struggles and their hopes for the future.

Disability activist Alice Wong last year was hospitalized and lost her ability to speak. But the San Francisco resident has not stopped her work or quieted her voice.

Like so many other nail salons attempting to navigate the fussily crafted mandates governing their industry through the pandemic, Fremont’s Pamper Nail Gallery shut down in 2020, early into the shutdown. Unlike most of those businesses, however, it turned out to be a blessing for owner Vivian Sue Rahey. 

Meet the children’s author who wants her new book to start conversations.