Bun bo hue is NPR editor Suzanne Nuyen's favorite dish. It inspired the name of her blog, Bun Bo Bae. Suzanne Nuyen/Bun Bo Bae hide caption

Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Wanyu Zhang hide caption

TJ is Sesame Street's first Filipino muppet. Courtesy of Sesame Workshop. Photographer: Zach Hyman hide caption

Cat stickers hang on display last week in Hanoi, Vietnam. The Lunar New Year begins on Sunday and marks the Year of the Cat in Vietnam and the Year of the Rabbit in China, South Korea and other East and Southeast Asian countries. Linh Pham/Getty Images hide caption

Chinese folk artists perform the lion dance at a temple fair to celebrate the Lunar New Year of Dragon in 2012 in Beijing, China. Feng Li/Getty Images hide caption

K-Pop group BTS poses with their McDonald's meal. McDonald's hide caption

Left: Wong Kim Ark, in a photograph taken from a 1904 U.S. immigration document. Right: Sergeant Bhagat Singh Thind in U.S. Army uniform during World War I at Camp Lewis, Washington, in 1918. Thind, an American Sikh, was the first U.S. serviceman to be allowed for religious reasons to wear a turban as part of his military uniform. National Archives/Public Domain; United States Army hide caption

DMX, pictured performing at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta, is reportedly in the hospital following a drug overdose on Friday night. David Goldman/Associated Press hide caption

The IRS has pushed back the tax filing deadline for a second year due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic and a number of last-minute changes to the tax laws. J. David Ake/AP hide caption

People attend a community rally to raise awareness of anti-Asian violence and racist attitudes, held at Los Angeles Historic Park near the Chinatown district in Los Angeles, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption

A vehicle rests on its side after a rollover accident involving golfer Tiger Woods along a road in the Rancho Palos Verdes section of Los Angeles County on Tuesday. Woods suffered leg injuries in the one-car accident and underwent surgery, authorities and his agent said. Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP hide caption

Allie Porter says a prayer at Children s Medical Group on West 35th Street on Wednesday, where Dr. Katherine Lindley Dodson was murdered. Dodson served as the doctor for Porter's children. Jay Janner/USA TODAY Network via Reuters hide caption

This 2015 photo provided by Shawn Nolan Chief, Capital Habeas Unit Community Federal Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, shows Dustin Higgs at the Federal Prison in Terre Haute, Ind. Federal Bureau of Prisons/Community Federal Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania via AP hide caption

Hundreds of people gather for a rally to mark the International Memorial Day for Comfort Women on August 14, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. A South Korean court recently ordered Japan to financially compensate 12 women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption