Submit Entries By March 31, 2025
NAPABA is pleased to announce the “Our History, Our Voice” Video Contest for Middle and High School Students across the United States.
This is a joint project of the Center on Asian Americans and the Law at Fordham Law School, the AAPI Crime Victims and Education Fund, and NAPABA. It seeks to engage young Americans with Asian American history told through certain little-known court cases. We want to challenge young people across the country to learn about the cases and retell them through short videos.
For too long, Asian Americans have been treated as foreigners in a country where we have lived and contributed for hundreds of years. Asian Americans have often been denied basic civil rights based on racial background alone. Most recently, during the pandemic, Asian Americans across the country were victimized as a result of being blamed for a disease associated with China. This perception of foreignness has lingered throughout U.S. history and has resulted in Asian Americans being treated as less than full-fledged citizens of our own country. This contest seeks to surface our community’s hidden history and to highlight the historical civil rights struggle of Asian Americans.
We encourage your children to participate. Please share the link for the contest landing page broadly to all of your circles, most especially those involving middle and high school-aged children. Our stories need to be told, and then passed along and retold, most especially by young people.
ELIGIBILITY
- Participants need to be between the ages of 13 and 18 and currently enrolled in middle school or high school.
- There is a limit of one (1) entry per person, per case.
- Submit by: March 31, 11:59 PM EST
AWARDS
- One Grand Prize of $5,000
- 3 Finalists will be awarded $1,000 per Finalist.