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· Carl Samson
Cheryl James-Ward, superintendent of the San Dieguito Union High School District, faced criticism after suggesting that Asian students are successful because they come from wealthy families immigrating from China. The official’s remarks came in response to a question during a…
· Celine Pun
A University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) study examined the demographics of more than 534,000 California renters who applied to California's Emergency Rental Assistance Program between March 2021 and March 2022. While 48% of distressed white renters and 64% of Black…
· Carl Samson
Asian and Black civil rights leaders have organized an event to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles uprising on April 29. The 1992 uprising, otherwise known as the Los Angeles riots, came in response to the acquittal of four police officers accused of using…
· Bryan Ke
The Palo Alto Police Department has launched a hate crime investigation after a woman’s Black Lives Matter sign was vandalized and had the word “Black” replaced with “Asian” on April 5. The unidentified vandal reportedly used adhesive to stick paper to the BLM yard sign, causing…
· Bryan Ke
Asian Canadians have condemned two French-language grammar worksheets distributed to students taking French courses at the Cole Internationale de Français of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) and the adult learning center Centre Louis-Jolliet in the city of…
· Carl Samson
Astrid Maria Secreve, a co-defendant of a March 2021 mischief case involving an Asian Canadian coffee shop manager, was filmed directing a racist slur at a camera operator while heading to court on Friday. The video of the incident shows Secreve yelling an expletive and an…
· Rebecca Moon
Vietnamese TikToker @kaitlynnbui posted a video of her parents strongly objecting to her choice to major in art. In the video, a teary-eyed Bui is seen eating her dinner while her parents question her choice to major in the arts, telling her that she has “nothing in comparison…
· Ryan General
An elderly woman in Washington who was accused of a hate crime against her Vietnamese neighbor last year has agreed to sell her home to pay the victim $45,000. Jan Myers, 72, was charged with a hate crime on Thursday for harassing her neighbor Thi Pham in April 2021.
· Michelle De Pacina
An 88-year-old Asian woman was held at gunpoint during a home invasion robbery on the 100 block of Louisburg Street near Geneva Avenue in San Francisco on April 7. The woman was home alone when the robbers forced her into a bathroom around 1 p.m. before raiding her house. The…
· Carl Samson
A contributor to The Daily Beast reportedly harassed an Asian man at a New Orleans bar after mistaking him for conservative journalist Andy Ngo. Ngo denied the alleged encounter and asked Tracy Connor, The Daily Beast’s editor-in-chief, “You okay with your contributor doing…
· Carl Samson
Business Insider was forced to change the cover image of a recent article to include a photo of an Asian entrepreneur “to better represent diversity.” The article, which was published on Wednesday, recognized seven self-made billionaires — three of whom are Asians — under the…
· Bryan Ke
Asian supermarket chain 99 Ranch Market is set to open its first New York outlet at Long Island’s Samanea New York Mall on Saturday, while the outlet's soft opening will be held on Thursday and Friday. The Saturday event will feature a ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by the…
· Michelle De Pacina
Coachella is finally back! Here’s a list of all the Asian artists performing at one of the world’s biggest music festivals. After two years of cancellations and delays because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is set to return this month. The…
· Carl Samson
Brooklyn resident Fang Mei Lin, 70, was reportedly stabbed by an unidentified assailant just outside her home near 53rd Street and Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park at around 1 p.m. on March 30. The suspect used an unknown object to stab Lin in the back and narrowly missed her right…
· Michelle De Pacina
A Coles supermarket in Melbourne came under fire for an aisle sign indicating Asian food items in the same section as cat and dog food. A Reddit user posted a photo of the store’s Aisle 10 sign, which reads, “Cat food, Dog food, Asian” with the caption “How are these 3…
· Carl Samson
Steven Zajonc, 28, has been indicted on felony and misdemeanor hate crime charges for attacking seven Asian women on Feb. 27, Manhattan prosecutors said on Monday. The attacks reportedly began at around 6:30 p.m. near Madison Avenue and East 30th Street in Midtown and ended near…
· Daniel Anderson
Yale University Art Gallery, the oldest art gallery in America, relinquished 13 South Asian artifacts worth over $1 million to Homeland Security and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office as part of an investigation into infamous antiquities thief Subhash Kapoor. Twelve of the…
· Carl Samson
A group of men robbed an Asian victim in Oakland, California, last Thursday. A video captured by a witness shows the victim struggling with two of the robbers over a Louis Vuitton bag. Another video shows the victim desperately running after his attackers as they flee with the…
· Bryan Ke
Louie’s Pizzeria owner Louie Suljovic was presented with a proclamation and certificate of congressional recognition at a special event on Friday to honor his and his father's bravery after they intervened to help a 61-year-old Asian woman facing three robbers in Queens, New…
· Celine Pun
Lana Condor and Brenda Song recently joined in conversation while promoting their upcoming projects “Moonshot” and “Dollface” to share their experiences as Asian American women working in Hollywood. In a virtual discussion hosted by Character Media, the two actors met for the…
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