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FILE - Students walk past a display for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at Farmington High School in Farmington, Conn., May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

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FILE - President Joe Biden speaks before a screening of the series "American Born Chinese" in the East Room of the White House in Washington, in celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, May 8, 2023. It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and their accomplishments should be recognized annually across the nation. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Nearly 50 years later, Asian American and Pacific Islander month features revelry and racial justice

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