“The Asian American community was especially hard hit, not only by the virus, but by an increase in hate and violent crimes,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement.
By Brahmjot Kaur/NBC News
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Sunday that $10 million will be given to organizations supporting Asia...
The move is required by federal law because at least 5% of Dallas County Vietnamese-speaking citizens who are of voting age have limited English proficiency.
By Charles Scudder and Jessica Huseman/Dallas Morning News
Dallas County will be required to offer election materials and ballots in Vietnam...
By Anh Do/Los Angeles Times
At age 7, Libby Yamamoto came home from a sleepover to find that her father had been taken away by the village police in their Peruvian town.
It was 1943, and as World War II raged, mounting numbers of Japanese in her country were also rounded up by authorities.
The U....
FBI: Violence against people of Asian descent has risen 76% since 2020
Senior staff attorney of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Stanley Mark, discusses the uptick in violent crimes against people of Asian descent.
View the interview at ABC News here, or take a look at the full...
By Grace Hauck/USA Today
Bew Jirajariyawetch was waiting for a subway train in New York City when a man grabbed her from behind, assaulted her and took her purse. She was hospitalized and has physically recovered. But three months later, Jirajariyawetch, 23, said she continues to be retraumatized b...
By Gwen Aviles/Insider
Nancy Wang Yuen says she was walking to a bus stop in Los Angeles when a white man shouted “mock Chinese” and racial slurs at her.
“We bombed your ass in Hiroshima!” she remembered the man telling her.
The experience was frightening, but wasn’t an isolated incident, she sai...
By Jessie Yeung/CNN
New York (CNN) — One spring morning last year, Vilma Kari was strolling through midtown Manhattan on her way to church when she was suddenly attacked by a stranger.
“You don’t belong here, you Asian,” he said, cursing and beating her so violently that Vilma, then 65, was left w...
By Lurie Daniel Favors, Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College
After the breakdown of the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC), the Democratic-dominated state Legislature is about to draw its own maps. While their maps will most likely strengthen that party’s hold o...
By Clifford Michel and Farah Javed/The City
After years of championing an “independent” commission to control the crucial redrawing of congressional and legislative districts, Democratic state leaders are taking over the process.
A wide coalition of advocates is demanding public hearings before Al...
By Anna Lucente Sterling/NY1
Dozens of people gathered on Friday morning in East Harlem to honor Yao Pan Ma, the 61-year-old man who died on New Year’s Eve from injuries he sustained during an attack last spring.
It was held on the corner of East 125th Street and Third Avenue, the intersection whe...
By Anita Gundanna and Vanessa Leung, Coalition for Asian American Children and Families
‘AAPI New Yorkers deserve to be heard in the halls of power, and we need a mayor who will recapture our diverse communities’ support and confidence.’
The diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) commu...
By Andres Picon/SF Chronicle
Michelle Go, who was killed in New York City on Saturday when a man pushed her onto the subway tracks, grew up in Fremont and went to college in Los Angeles.
“We are in a state of shock and grieving the loss of our daughter, sister, and friend,” Go’s family members, wh...
By Namita Singh/Independent
Tributes from friends, colleagues, and neighbours poured in for Michelle Alyssa Go, a New York businesswoman who was shoved to death in front of a subway on Saturday.
“She was incredibly smart,” her neighbour Olivia Henderson told the New York Times as she fought back t...
By Brittany Valentine/Al Dia
The Chinese-American woman’s death has once again heightened fears of Anti-Asian crimes in the city.
On Saturday, Jan. 15, at around 9:30 a.m, a woman was pushed to her death in front of an oncoming train at a New York City subway station near 42nd Street and Broadway....
By Myles Miller
The man accused of shoving an Asian woman to her death at a New York City subway station has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder, police confirmed late Saturday.
The 40-year-old victim, identified as Michelle Alyssa Go of New York City, was waiting for a southbound ...
By Emma Brazell/Metro.co.uk
A woman has died after being pushed in front of a subway train in New York.
Michelle Alyssa Go, 40, was the victim of an ‘unprovoked’ attack at Times Square station on Saturday morning.
A man is said to have first approached another woman who feared he would shove her ...
By Jennifer Peltz and Carolyn Thompson/AP
NEW YORK – A woman was pushed to her death in front of a subway train at the Times Square station Saturday, police said, a little more than a week after the mayor and governor announced plans to boost subway policing and outreach to homeless people in New Y...
By Anna Bradley-Smith/BK Reader
The state’s Independent Redistricting Commission has been told to go back to the drawing board after failing to agree on how to divide districts including, Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, in its proposed electoral maps
A bipartisan committee tasked with establishing one new...
By Ese Olumhense/City Limits
The “Unity Map” was drawn by three civil rights legal groups—the Asian American Legal Defense Fund, the Center for Law and Social Justice, and Latino Justice—and features districts drawn to preserve a community’s political power, the organizers said, particularly import...
By Andrew Schneider/Houston Public Media
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
People of color accounted for virtually all of Texas’ population growth over the past 10 years, yet when lawmakers meant to redraw the state’s congressional maps, they actually created more white-majority districts. The Justice Depa...
