‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’; directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia, 2025); Viewed at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline. The film recently opened at the Coolidge and at West Newton Cinema in ...

As we begin the new year, Sampan will run an occasional series of pieces reflecting on literature that has influenced who we were, who we are now, and who we might become as Americans. On July 4, we ...

Three generations of Filipino women tell how they got back to their roots after moving to the U.S. For Filipino American History month in October, Sampan, in collaboration with the University of ...

What makes one Chinatown thrive and another become just an empty symbol of a community? A sweeping report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund explores three “swiftly changing” ...

The world premiere of the musical “Wonder” is a compelling, family-friendly production that tells the story of Auggie, a boy with a facial difference. Born with Treacher’s Collins Syndrome, Auggie has ...

At one time, the new Josiah Quincy Upper School building that exists today in Chinatown seemed like an impossibility. In fact, for years high school students in the neighborhood were stuck in an old ...

Juk Sing stands out in the Boston music scene for their unique sound: The band’s specialty is Cantopop — a sub-genre of Chinese pop music originating from Hong Kong. “The golden age of Canto-pop was ...

We open with a long, slow pan over the fictional town of East Gladness, Connecticut. This is William Faulkner, John Steinbeck Sherwood Anderson territory. “If you aim for gladness and miss,” the ...

A news report on GBH posted recently caught our attention. The story was about how the head of a national media company, Brian Timpone, who runs Metric Media, was seeking information from public ...

Most people know Suzanne Lee for two things: her career in the Boston Public Schools system, and her work building organizations in Chinatown. Today, she is the president emeritus of the Chinese ...

For decades, Josiah Quincy was seen as a cultural resource for Boston. Now, new city policies and demographic shifts are limiting who can access the institution The Josiah Quincy Elementary School has ...

In a neighborhood starved of both new affordable housing and greenery, a development project has forced residents and activists to choose between the two — and the former has won out ... for now. At ...