Daily Beast - Members of Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Ocala, Florida, were busy prepping for an early morning Saturday Mass on July 11, 2020, when a white minivan sped through the parking lot, jumped the curb, and crashed through the doors. . .
Macchiaroli, who vetted potential hate-crime char
Paper - In the past year, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been a rise in violence against Asians. But more people have been coming together to help #StopAAPIHate and protect Asian lives. And now with the celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, more platforms are providing opportuni
Newsweek - More Asians voted in the 2020 presidential race than in any election in history, according to a new report released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. . .
The group played a role in Biden’s victory, according to exit polls conducted by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Northeast Asian Weekly - A jury on April 20 found former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than 9 minutes last year in one of the most consequential trials of the Black Lives Matter era. . .
Bloomberg Law - A group of some 40 law firms, including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and White & Case, and a group of large company law departments, are launching a national pro bono initiative to aid victims and help prevent acts of anti-Asian hate. . .
Initial case intake will be done by The National
ABC News - Violence and harassment against Asian Americans continue to make national headlines – but experts and advocates say some of those attacks may never be tried as hate crimes.
Several factors can deter investigators from pursuing a crime as one motivated by hate, they said. . .
And if ther
TODAY - From 2019 to 2020, hate crimes against Asian Americans increased by 150% in major cities like New York and Los Angeles, a study by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, concluded. . .
“After 9/11, we had over 300 calls about violence
Politico - This month’s killing spree at Atlanta-area spas is pushing Korean American pastors to do something quietly radical: Urge their flocks to get politically involved and rise up against racism against Asian Americans. . .
An invigorated Korean community, pushed to action by Korean churches,
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
