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
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang/PBS NewsHour
As concern mounts from some parents about concepts like Critical Race Theory and whether it should be taught in K-12 classrooms, which it is not, some other parents are concerned about how to prepare and protect their Muslim, Sikh, Arab and Asian American childr
By Brahmjot Kaur/NBC News
A Laotian-owned French bakery in Connecticut has started a college scholarship for students taking Asian American studies and pursuing careers in public school education.
Khamla Vorasane opened BouNom Bakery in Avon last February with her sister, Chan Graham. It’s named a
By Nargis Hakim Rahman/WDET
As voters walk into the Hamtramck Community Center, Ali Newaz greets voters and directs them to one of three precincts. He smiles behind his mask. He’s wearing a bright orange sign on his multicolored windbreaker that reads “I speak Bangla.”
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In June, the city of Hamt
By Roz Brown/Public News Service
AUSTIN, Texas — Legal challenges are piling up in Texas over newly-drawn congressional and legislative district maps, with the latest alleging they disenfranchise people of color.
The Fair Maps Texas Action Committee filed a legal challenge this week on behalf of a
“Building solidarity with other communities, community sharing, that kind of vision. You will help prevent a lot of the issues and a lot of these situations where you have random attacks,” said Stanley Mark, senior staff attorney at AALDEF, in an interview with Newsy about the rise in hate crimes ag
By Jacob Kaye/Queens Daily Eagle
For over five hours, Queens residents told the New York State Independent Redistricting Commission how they felt the initial proposed redistricting maps held up to their expectations earlier this week.
Gathered at York College on Wednesday, the commission held its
By Nigel Roberts/BK Reader
Communities across Brooklyn voiced their concerns on Tuesday about the proposed state Independent Redistricting Commission’s (IRC) competing electoral district maps, which were supposed to be bipartisan and compliant with constitutional principles of fairness and equality
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
Asian Americans continued to support Democratic candidates in high-profile elections around the country last week, new exit polling data shows.
In the Virginia gubernatorial election and the Boston and New York mayoral races, Asian Americans overwhelmingly voted for Democrats
By Sami Sparber/Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN — The court fights have already begun over Texas’ new political maps, which secure the GOP’s grip on power for the next decade but blunt the voting strength of nonwhite voters who fueled the state’s population surge.
The decennial redistricting process fo
By Laura Zornosa
On Sunday afternoon, a pigeon flew through a performance of “Covid Crime,” a one-act play taking place at a Manhattan intersection, where yellow taxis whizzed by against the backdrop of a halal food cart.
The show, written by Lionelle Hamanaka and directed by Howard Pflanzer, was
By Annelise Gilbert/The Uptowner
Hate crimes are surging in upper Manhattan, outpacing an increase across New York City after a dip in 2020 with its pandemic-related lockdown. The 35 bias-attacks reported in uptown precincts this year puts offenses on track to top the previous record, 36 incidents
