We live in a highly polarized time when the need for understanding, empathy and solidarity is of the utmost importance.  With the continuing wave of book bans and attacks on freedom of speech this textbook project exercises our right to tell our stories in the fullness of our humanity.  This session discusses the AAPI multimedia textbook, an ambitious narrative change project initiated by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center that brings together distinguished scholarship, open access technology, and ethnic studies pedagogy to deepen public knowledge about who we are, foster equitable classroom environments and strengthen students' historical empathy.