Sarah Zhang, Author at The Michigan Daily

Illustration of hands holding signs that read "stop APIDA hate", "I am not invisible" and "APIDA strong."

Shattering the political invisibility of the AAPI community

by Sarah Zhang November 13, 2023November 13, 2023

Despite national grieving for Vincent Chin’s murder in Detroit in 1982, the tragedy spurred the mobilization of Michigan’s Asian American Pacific Islander community. Local activists founded American Citizens for Justice, an AAPI civil rights organization, and expanded their advocacy efforts to create the Michigan Asian-Pacific American Bar Association. Three decades later, the movement to uplift […]