Harvard Gazette: By Aaron Mukerjee. Growing up as an Indian American in a small town in southeast Michigan, I understood what it was like to be an outsider. As recently as 2020, my hometown made international headlines for all the wrong reasons when two parents clashed during a school meeting focuse...
Los Angeles Times - For this weekend’s Food section, the Food team marked the anniversary of the pandemic-related shutdowns and its rippling effects on Los Angeles’ dining and cooking culture. . . .
For [Bill Addison’s] contribution to the section, I asked myself what an L.A. food writer in 10 year...
City and State NY - Asian Americans are facing twin crises: the COVID-19 pandemic and a wave of hate. . .
City & State reached out to the following experts to hear their thoughts on how to stem the wave of hate against Asian Americans in New York City: Jo-Ann Yoo, executive director of the Asian Am...
NBC News - As the recent wave of attacks on older Asian Americans prompts calls for action and activism, experts urge the use of precise, accurate language in discussing the violence. . .
Social media posts have conflated violence against people who are Asian American with hate crimes against the c...
Variety - Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, hate crimes against Asian Americans have been on the rise. According to the advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate, there have been up to 2,800 incidents reported since last March. In New York City alone, there was an 867% increase in Asian hate crime victi...
CBS New York - A woman is recovering after being assaulted outside a Queens bakery.
Police are investigating this as possibly the latest in a string of recent hate crimes. . .
Video posted to social media by the victim’s daughter shows a 52-year-old woman being pushed to the ground on Roosevelt Av...
New York Magazine - In the span of just one week, the Asian American community has suffered a series of racist, violent attacks. 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee was murdered in San Francisco. A 91-year-old man was viciously shoved to the ground in Oakland’s Chinatown. A 64-year-old grandmother was as...
NBC News - Corky Lee often photographed the underchronicled stories: a young child with her mother in a sweatshop, a protester with blood rushing down his face and a re-enactment ceremony for the Chinese immigrants who were excluded from photographs of the completion of the transcontinental railroad...
NBC News - On Election Day last month, poll worker Bobby Lee helped an Asian American voter at a polling station in Malden, near Boston – the man who spoke limited English asked him if he had to fill in every bubble on the ballot. . .
Poll monitors in Malden found that “seven out of 10 poll sites d...
NY Law Journal - The coronavirus pandemic will likely complicate the timing of New York’s redistricting efforts ahead of the 2022 elections, but members of the commission charged with redrawing districts for the state’s U.S. House of Representatives, State Senate and State Assembly districts said Tu...
Nevada Independent - Early data shows that white voters again heavily backed Donald Trump this cycle, but it’s a diverse coalition of younger voters and people of color who helped push Joe Biden over the edge in Nevada and nationwide. Here’s a closer look at what polls and experts tell us about turn...
SupChina - In 2016, BiLan Liao moved from Kentucky to Gwinnett County, just northeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Having voted for Hillary Clinton that year, the 62-year-old Chinese immigrant, who came to the U.S. in 1999, was deeply worried about the “authoritarian style” of leadership that Trump has pres...
NBC Asian America - “TikTok Titas” in the Silver State may have helped Joe Biden win gold in this year’s dramatic presidential election.
Older Filipina American women — known as “titas” — made a splash in Nevada in get-out-the-vote moments during the campaign, from vibrant car parades to popular Ti...
Vox - Many political campaigns have historically fallen short when it comes to Asian American voter outreach.
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A lack of outreach can also mean that campaigns miss out on how best to serve their AAPI constituents. “The harm is that they don’t know what issues are important to the community, an...
Scroll.In - By 10 AM, over 200 ballots had been cast at the JP Stevens High School in Edison, New Jersey. By 12 PM, poll workers expected to run out of paper ballots.
Indian-American voter turnout over the past week has hit record highs, and Election Day turnout at a polling site in Middlesex Count...
Vox - When Tram Nguyen, a Democratic state representative from Massachusetts, posted a Facebook video declaring support for the Black Lives Matter movement, she thought the message to her constituents was relatively uncontroversial. Millions of Americans were taking to the streets to protest police ...
The Nation - Limary Ruiz Torres, a 51-year-old accountant in Lawrenceville, Ga., was eager to vote in this year’s presidential primary. But when Torres, who was raised in Puerto Rico and speaks limited English, received her mail-in ballot application in April, she felt shut out. “I cannot read the a...
Houston Chronicle - Nhat Nguyen stood Sunday morning on a sidewalk on Bellaire Boulevard with a bullhorn in one hand and phone in the other. “Go Trump!” he shouted while live-streaming to Facebook a parade of honking cars bedecked in Trump flags. Trucks blasted music from open windows as they cruise...
Nevada Independent - The familiar rhythm of the festivals has been absent this year.
The Japanese spring festival in April. The Indian food festival in May. Filipino kamayan feasts in the fall.
Like so many other events this year, festivals across Asian American and Pacific Islander communities ha...
Newsweek - Republican President Donald Trump seems to have deleted a tweet posted Monday evening at 5:54 pm E.T. which called COVID-19 “the Chinese virus” and inadvertently included the email address of New York Post writer Miranda Devine.
The tweets, with Devine’s email address removed, quoted som...
