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AAPI

Local book drive will deliver hundreds of Asian-themed novels to Nashville schools

Damon Mitchell

May 31, 2022

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The book drive is part of a growing push to make Tennessee more inclusive of Asian Americans.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Education, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: AAPI, API Middle Tennessee, Asian, Asian American, Greater Nashville Chinese Association, Metro Schools, Nashville Chinese School, Pacific Islanders, Williamson County Schools

As Vanderbilt’s Asian American population grows, students say it’s time for campus to be more inclusive

Juliana Kim

May 20, 2022

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Vanderbilt offers African American studies and Latino studies, but when it comes to classes on the Asian American experience, the university has fallen short, students say.

Filed Under: Education, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: AAPI, Asian American, Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University

Reflecting on the local impact of the Atlanta spa shootings, one year later

This Is Nashville

March 16, 2022

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One year after the Atlanta shootings, WPLN’s Juliana Kim spoke on This Is Nashville about how it reverberated among Asian Americans in Middle Tennessee and the emotional impact of reporting on the shootings as a woman of Korean descent.

Filed Under: News Hits, Perspectives, WPLN News Tagged With: AAPI, Asian American, Atlanta, atlanta spa shooting

Out of shared pain, joy and loneliness, Asian Americans in Nashville are determined to come together

Juliana Kim

February 7, 2022

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The pandemic has shown Nashville’s small Asian population that it is stronger together, banding groups like the Greater Nashville Chinese Association, India Association of Nashville, API Middle Tennessee and the Tennessee chapter of the National Association of Asian American Professionals together.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: AAPI, API Middle Tennessee, Asian, Asian American, Greater Nashville Chinese Association, India Association of Nashville, National Association of Asian American Professionals, Pacific Islanders, Sticky Rice Collective

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