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Watch TNT Media Live coverage of our Community Appreciation Night
on January 11th, 2025
Watch WCVB5abc coverage on Cityline: Dorchester community organizations commemorate "Black April" on May 4, 2025
Watch NBC10Boston coverage on Uncovering the stories from the Fall of Saigon on the 50th year commemorative celebration on April 8, 2025
Watch our interview with Saigon Broadcasting Television Network News on June 15, 2024
Watch our interview with GBH News on April 29, 2024
Watch Viet Press (TNT Boston Live) coverage of our
Intergenerational Cultural Commemoration on April 20th, 2024
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Vietnamese American memorial planned for Dorchester sparks intergenerational conversations
This year marks a half-century since the end of the Vietnam War. A well-known memorial in Washington, DC, pays tribute to the US service members…
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In Dorchester, Vietnamese-Americans mark 50 years after the Fall of Saigon
Pieces of a community’s collective memory filled a high school in Dorchester on a recent afternoon. Specifically, stories of war, trauma and resilience of Vietnamese refugees following the Vietnam War…
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Vietnamese commemoration focuses on trauma, healing in wake of ‘Black April’
Black April – a term used by many Vietnamese émigrés to describe the fall of Saigon fifty years ago this week– is a date frozen in time for those who experienced the trauma of war...
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50 years later, Boston's Vietnamese community honors those who re-rooted here
April 30, 1975, is known around the world as the day North Vietnamese troops captured Saigon and the Vietnam War ended
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‘Black April’ to triumph: Boston’s Vietnamese community to celebrate its history
For Ngoc-Tran Vu, the fall of Saigon, the pivotal event, concluding on April 30, 1975, that finally marked the end of the bloody quagmire that was the Vietnam War, is more than…
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The 50th anniversary of ‘Black April’ centers memories for many in Vietnamese community
Vietnamese community organizations are organizing the largest commemoration in Boston for the 50th anniversary of what has become known as “Black April”…
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Vietnamese community mobilizes push for Town Field memorial site
About 200 people attended an appreciation dinner hosted by the Vietnamese community’s 1975 Memorial Project at the Saigon Seafood Restaurant in Fields Corner last Saturday evening. The event…
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Commentary: Laying out the next steps for establishing the ‘1975 Vietnamese Diaspora Memorial’
Last month, we shared the modified design of the “1975: A Vietnamese Diaspora Memorial” at Phở Quê restaurant. The response was heartening…
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A local artist designs memorial for Vietnamese diaspora
Growing up, Ngoc-Tran Vu watched her father and his South Vietnamese veteran friends gather every year to commemorate Black April
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Dorchester Art Project Set to Honor Vietnamese Diaspora
An art project by a group of Vietnamese Americans in Dorchester will complement a proposed Vietnamese diaspora memorial and aim to become a permanent presence in Boston, say organizers.
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1975: A Vietnamese Diaspora Commemoration Initiative ends a productive summer
Nestled along the streets of Dorchester, numerous public art installations reveal the rich culture of its Vietnamese community.
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An overdue recognition for Boston’s Vietnamese diaspora
Project to establish a permanent marker that honors the Vietnamese experience is underway in Boston Little Saigon...
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Community Engagement Is Underway for a New Vietnam War Memorial in Dorchester
Artist Ngọc-Trân Vũ is leading a project that will honor the perspectives of local Fields Corner residents.
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April 30, 2024 - Robert Jan van Pelt, Boston Design Week and Ngoc-Tran Vu
Finally, April 30, known as “ Black April,” is a day to lament and reflect upon the fall of Saigon and of South Vietnam, in 1975...
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Local Vietnamese American community commemorates Black April
The yellow-and-red-striped South Vietnamese flag flew alongside the U.S. and Massachusetts flags...
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1975: A Vietnamese Diaspora Commemoration Initiative honors Black April
On April 20, the Vietnamese community of Dorchester gathered at the Intergenerational Cultural Commemoration Event in Dorchester’s VietAID Community Center, hosted by the 1975: A Vietnamese Diaspora…
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50 Years After the War: The 1975 Vietnamese Diaspora Commemoration Seeks to Heal
The VietAID Community Center in Dorchester on April 20 hosted the “Intergenerational Cultural Commemoration Event”...
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Saturday event in Fields Corner highlights Vietnamese culture, 'Black April'
The 1975 Vietnamese Diaspora Commemoration Initiative is hosting an "Intergenerational Cultural Commemoration Event" in Fields Corner on Saturday, April 20.
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Dec. 16 meeting to launch ‘Healing Memorial’ effort for Vietnamese community
A grassroots group that plans to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the War in Vietnam in 2025 will convene its first public meeting about their ideas on Saturday, Dec. 16 at the VietAID Community Center…
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In Town Field, ‘Journey of Light’ installation illuminates the path to a permanent memorial
Below a glowing canopy of lights and traditional nón lá hats, each affixed with a slip of paper bearing a Vietnamese family’s immigration date, nearly 100 people…
