Tag: Pacifics

As of March 2022, the Oregon Health Authority reported a hospitalization rate of 8.6% among total cases for Pacific Islanders — the highest among all groups — and a fatality rate of 1.1%. Other states show similarly high numbers. In California, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders have...

Jeanie Jew, a former Capitol Hill staffer, witnessed the Black History Month and Hispanic Heritage Week celebrations of 1976 and was concerned about the lack of recognition given to Asian Pacific Americans. And for Jew, the lack of recognition was very personal: her great-grandfather, M.Y. Lee, had ...