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How You Can Support America's Chinatowns Right Now

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In this episode, we're hearing stories from Chinatowns around the country and providing some ways you can help support Asian-American communities and businesses right now: Writer Eda Yu details her Protect Our Elders project and chef/business owner Winston Chiu (Bonbite NYC, Feed Forward) talks about the grassroots initiative Enough Is Enough;

Thrillist's NYC Editor Tae Yoon shares his own story of growing up in Flushing, Queens, and speaks with James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Grace Young and local business owners in Flushing and Manhattan's Chinatown on the impact the pandemic and xenophobia has had on the neighborhoods; Vic Lee, co-founder of the Welcome to Chinatown project in NYC, tells us about their mission and how you can help; Daphne Wu, of the Bay Area's Save Our Chinatowns initiative, talks about her favorite small business in Oakland's Chinatown; We hear from Professor Emeritus Sue Fawn Chung and local business owners about the rapidly growing Chinatown neighborhood in Las Vegas.


Links: 


Stop AAPI Hate: https://www.stopaapihate.org/


Welcome to Chinatown (NYC): https://www.welcometochinatown.com/


Save Our Chinatowns (Bay Area): https://www.saveourchinatowns.org/


Protect Our Elders (original IG post): https://www.instagram.com/p/CLCz92Wh99l/


Enough is Enough (original IG post): https://www.instagram.com/p/CLU-9pdhdzy/


Feed Forward: https://www.instagram.com/feedforwardnyc

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