Mina Fedor is an American 14-year-old. For her family, disturbing acts of anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander hate have always been a possibility, but it's felt more intense since the pandemic.
; one of four borough-based jails that will eventually be built in New York City to replace Riker's Island.
"The enormity of the project and the long protracted time it will take to complete the structure will have great impact environmentally as well as economically, on Chinatown's future," said Lee. "We've seen other communities around us in Manhattan, Lower Manhattan grow, while we get homeless shelters," Lee said.
High up in the Utah mountains, Rep. Karen Kwan is also working to bring about awareness - and she's doing so by trying to preserve the past, by teaching the history of Chinese-American workers who were instrumental in building the transcontinental railroad. Kwan said learning the history of Asian Americans in the West is important. For example, she said learning about how Chinese immigrants came to the U.S. to construct railroads during the Civil War under President Abraham Lincoln made her understand the instrumental role many AANHPI's played in building the nation.
It's been 153 years since the Transcontinental railroad was completed. Kwan has worked with the community to try and get the contributions of Chinese-Americans recognized; she says it was just three years ago that a speaker representing the Chinese-American community spoke during the annual commemorative "Golden Spike" ceremony.
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