Ava Chin uncovered a mysterious family history, taking in five generations of her own Chinese-American ancestors over the course of over 150 years as they tried to lay roots in the United States.

In 1955, Emma Thompson sold the Coronado home and the barn next door to the Dongs, who became the first Chinese American family to purchase real estate in Coronado, said Kevin Ashley, a Coronado ...

On Tuesday, April 2, Ava Chin, author of the generation chronicling non-fiction book “Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming,” gave a keynote speech at the ...

In 1939, the Dongs, a Chinese American family in Coronado, California, found themselves unable to rent a house amid racially restrictive housing laws that favored white buyers and renters.

In California, the Kemp family, which is Chinese American, is donating $5 million in honor of Gus and Emma Thompson, a Black couple who rented a home in California to their family when nobody else ...

A Chinese American family pays it forward by donating to Black college students' education years after a Black couple kindly rented and sold property to them amid racially restrictive housing laws.

The Dongs, a Chinese American family, learned that the hard way in 1939 when they had trouble finding a place of their own. Suggested Reading .

A Chinese American family told NBC News that they will be donating $5 million to Black college students around the U.S., and it will be funded from the sale of their home in Coronado, Cali., which ...

A Black couple rented, then sold, their house to a Chinese-American family in Coronado when no one else would. Now, that family is donating $5 million to Black students.

Asian Americans, tell us how you talk about mental health with your family and friends Stigma and shame around mental health is particularly intense in many Asian American cultures. (Jim Cooke) ...

In 1939, Gus and Emma Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple, agreed to rent and eventually sell the house they owned to the Dongs, a Chinese American family. The Thompsons’ decision touched ...

The Thompsons, a Black couple, rented to the Dongs, a Chinese American family, 85 years ago when nobody else would. Now, the Dongs are donating $5 million to Black college students because they ...