To call Angel Island the “Ellis Island of the West” is misleading. The U.S. immigration station at Angel Island is markedly different from its East Coast counterpart; for one, unless you are from the ...

These lesson plan units were developed to work with the video-short Discovering Angel Island: The Story Behind the Poems and the Pacific Link website. There are three elementary level lesson units and ...

Even if it's built of jade, it has turned into a cage. History lives, but just faintly, at Angel Island. The walls do talk. Preserved behind ropes in a dank, wood-framed building on this verdant ...

Growing up, Jeffrey Thomas Leong heard stories from his father, a Chinese immigrant who first traveled to San Francisco in 1920. “Around the dinner table at night, he would tell us about his ...

Introduction -- Guarding the Golden Gate: the life and business of the immigration station -- "One hundred kinds of oppressive laws": Chinese immigrants in the shadow of exclusion -- "Agony, anguish, ...

Earlier this month New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared that New York State would suspend its participation in “Secure Communities” because it unfairly attacks immigrants. It is well known that ...

It's easy to miss the poems carved into the walls of the immigration station on Angel Island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. But if you look carefully, thousands of Chinese characters start to ...

The wooden house on the hill is haunted, and those who once endured its wrath are now the ones holding the doors wide open. Come inside, and you can almost hear the echoes of the suffering and smell ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Angel Island,” an oratorio by Huang Ruo, brings to life the stark poetry of the people who were detained on the California island in the early 1900s.