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Racism
Video of woman attempting to pronounce ‘Din Tai Fung’ goes viral
A TikTok video of a woman butchering the pronunciation of “Din Tai Fung” has gone viral. Uploaded on Dec. 24, 2022, by Joelle Uzyel (@joelle...
Iris Jung
News
Wall Street Journal columnist accused of racism over ‘Are there ‘too many Asians?” op-ed
An opinion columnist with the Wall Street Journal has been accused of racism after penning an article initially titled “Are there ‘too many ...
Editorial Staff
Politics
Elaine Chao fires back at Trump in rare rebuke after another racist attack
Months after Donald Trump attacked her with a racist nickname, Elaine Chao is finally addressing the offensive rhetoric, suggesting that her...
Carl Samson
Business
COVID-related stigma cost Asian restaurants in US $7.4 billion in lost revenue: study
A new study reveals that COVID-related stigma cost Asian American restaurants over $7.4 billion in lost revenue in 2020. As anti-Chinese sen...
Michelle De Pacina
Utah high school students accused of chanting racial slurs at visiting basketball team
A Utah school district has announced an investigation after receiving complaints that a group of Roy High students began chanting racial slu...
Bryan Ke
Government
RNC chair candidate says her Sikh faith is being targeted with ‘bigoted attacks’ by her opponents
Harmeet Dhillon persists in the race for Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman despite facing opposition regarding her Sikh faith. ...
Ines Shin
Asian Americans exposed to racism may experience ‘multiple medical symptoms’: study
Before you read: Asian Americans Suffer the Most from Racial Discrimination, Study Finds We Really Need to Talk About Mental Health for Asia...
Ryan General
Crime
Man accused of punching two Asian American women in the face in Boston’s Chinatown
Before you read: Asian American woman, 70, punched in the face in unprovoked Boston Chinatown attack A 53-year-old Cambridge man is set to a...
Biden-Harris administration releases first-ever national strategy to advance equity and justice for AANHPI communities
Before you read: Biden Signs Initiative Calling for ‘Equity and Justice’ for AANHPI Community The White House Initiative on Asian Americans,...
Woman stabbed teen multiple times on Indiana bus for being Chinese, according to affidavit
A woman was arrested for stabbing an 18-year-old girl in the head multiple times on a Bloomington Transit bus in Indiana. Billie R. Davis, ...
NYC man pleads guilty to killing senior can collector because he’s Asian
Before you read: Man arrested for brutally stomping on head of Asian American man, 61, in Manhattan Man who stomped on elderly Chinese man’s...
‘I would rather die than look like you’: Australian woman’s anti-Asian rant caught in TikTok video
A TikTok user found herself on the receiving end of a racist rant at a tram station in Australia. On Wednesday, Hazel Chan (@siewngap) poste...
Elaine Chao discourages media from repeating Trump’s racist insult
Before you read: Trump calls Elaine Chao ‘Coco Chow’ in latest attack on Mitch McConnell Elaine Chao declines to comment on Trump’s ‘Coco Ch...
Dallas woman filmed making ‘slant eyes’ after being confronted over parking spot
Internet sleuths are looking for a woman who was caught making a racist slant-eye gesture on video during a confrontation over a parking spo...
Colorado man charged with hate crimes for anti-Asian, anti-gay tirade at California In-N-Out
Before you read: Self-proclaimed ‘Slave master’ spews anti-Asian, anti-gay hate against TikTokers at California In-N-Out A Colorado man has ...
Self-proclaimed ‘slave master’ spews anti-Asian, anti-gay hate against TikTokers at California In-N-Out
Before you read: Anti-Asian hate crimes up by 342% in 2021, new data shows ...
New Jersey man pleads guilty to targeting Asian homeowners in multi-state burglaries
Randi Barr, 41, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property. The charge c...
Education
Purdue Northwest faculty votes no-confidence in chancellor for mock Asian language
The faculty and staff of Purdue Northwest have cast an overwhelming vote of no-confidence in Chancellor Thomas Keon’s leadership. The chanc...
Colorado city councilmember faces backlash over ads mocking minorities
Councilmember Steve Sundberg of Aurora, Colorado, has issued an apology following backlash over a series of videos of himself imitating mino...
Culture
Young Indian Americans experience discrimination as early as preschool, study suggests
Researchers from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health conducted open-ended surveys on nine Indian American adolescents. Th...
Elaine Chao declines to comment on Trump’s ‘Coco Chow’ attack
Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has refused to talk about former President Donald Trump’s “Coco Chow” attack, according to repo...
Georgia man pleads guilty to hate crime after shooting convenience stores to kill Black, Arab people
Larry Edward Foxworth, 48, pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime and a firearms violation in connection with shootings at two convenience ...
Feature
‘Everything is destroyed by China’: TikToker’s conversation with racist Lyft driver goes viral
In a pair of videos uploaded by TikTok user Milan Seki (@itismilan), Seki records a conversation between herself and her Iranian Lyft drive...
Arkansas’s secretary of state posts prank call of 2 Chinese restaurants to his Facebook
Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston shared a video of a prank call involving two Chinese restaurants on his personal Facebook page las...
Purdue University chancellor faces growing pressure to resign over racist joke
Before you read: Purdue University Northwest chancellor under fire for mock Asian accent The Purdue University Northwest faculty senate has...
Chandler Treon
NYC principal accused of hating Asians, banning pencils to prevent erasing mistakes
Debra Mastriano, principal of Public School 166 in New York City’s Upper West Side, has come under fire for racist remarks and draconian po...
Purdue University Northwest chancellor under fire for mock Asian accent
Purdue University Northwest Chancellor Thomas L. Keon has come under fire for a racist joke and accent used during the school’s commencemen...
Daniel Anderson
4 Malaysian tourists in Dublin beaten by group of teens in ‘racist attack’
Four Malaysian tourists were victims of an alleged “racist attack” in Dublin. According to a Facebook post by former newscaster ...
Convicted sex offender allowed to go on anti-Asian rant at NYC Council hearing
A convicted sex offender who is now a member of an advocacy group was reportedly allowed to unleash anti-Asian remarks at a New York City Co...
Massachusetts driver accused of ramming Asian man into ditch released after dangerousness hearing
John Sullivan, 77, has been released from custody on several conditions after a dangerousness hearing at the Quincy District Court in Massa...
‘Go back to your country’: California man charged with hate crime for beating up Asian senior
Jesse Fausto Correa, 29, is facing multiple charges — including a hate crime charge — in connection with an attack on an elderly Asian man ...
YouTuber IShowSpeed accused of racism for repeatedly yelling ‘konnichiwa’ at Chinese World Cup fan
YouTuber IShowSpeed has been accused of racism after filming himself repeatedly yelling “konnichiwa” at a Chinese World Cup fan. The momen...
‘Go back to China’: Massachusetts driver charged for ramming Asian man 200 yards into ditch
John Sullivan, 77, has been slammed with multiple charges after allegedly hitting and dragging an Asian man with his car in Quincy, Massach...
Film & TV
Celebrity doctor calls out British Curry Awards for lack of Asian representation
Celebrity doctor Ranj Singh, 43, called out this year's British Curry Awards for its lack of Asian representation and for letting a wh...
2 men charged with hate crimes for back-to-back anti-Asian incidents in Washington state
A pair of men have been charged with hate crimes in connection with two separate anti-Asian incidents in Washington state earlier this mont...
NY career criminal sentenced to 17.5 years for punching Asian senior 125 times
Tammel Esco, 42, has received a 17.5-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to brutally attacking a senior Asian woman in Yonkers, New ...