Asian American

UNC-Chapel Hill student Shristi Sharma grew up in a small town in Iowa, believing she was American — until a conversation with her father during middle school changed everything she knew about her life.

Due to a massive backlog in employment-based green card applications, Indian nationals who’ve applied for green cards are often waiting many years to receive permanent residency status in the U.S. The long wait has impacted many Indian tech workers in North Carolina’s Triangle and also a growing number of college students whose parents brought them to the U.S. when they were young children.

As the Asian American population grows in the South – along with national awareness of anti-Asian violence – the works of Asian American artists have become more visible in art galleries and public spaces in North Carolina. What they have in common is how they express pride in the artists’ identity and experiences as Asian Americans.

As Pride reached its sixth year in Durham, Tori Grace Nichols, one of the few Asian American drag performers in the Triangle, shares how they connect drag to their Pilipinx identity.

When a Chinese American professor was killed on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus on Aug. 28, it triggered deep-seated anxiety and fear among Asian Americans in the Triangle.

One flyer showing up in mailboxes across North Carolina has a picture of President Joe Biden and says the government wants to replace white and Asian workers with Black and Latinx workers.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case challenging affirmative action at UNC-Chapel Hill. The outcome could have far-reaching consequences for college admissions across the country.

A man has been arrested and charged with attacking a Korean-owned convenience store in uptown Charlotte on Tuesday, allegedly smashing the store's coolers with a metal post and hurling racial slurs at the store's owners.

As a little girl in Taiwan, Jan-Ru Wan grew up expressing herself not by speaking but through making things. Creating art and working with material…

As a little girl in Taiwan, Jan-Ru Wan grew up expressing herself not by speaking but through making things. Creating art and working with material…