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· Jane Nam
On Wednesday, pro-Trump group America First Legal issued a class action suit against Amazon, accusing the company of privileging its Black, Native American and Latino employees over their white and Asian counterparts. The group filed a five-page complaint on behalf of a white…
· Michelle De Pacina
Tiffany Felder, 52, was arrested and charged with hate crime for attacking a 76-year-old Asian woman in Harlem, New York, on Wednesday. Felder allegedly yelled “I hate Koreans!” as he punched the woman in the back of her head with a closed fist at around 10:45 a.m. The victim…
· Michelle De Pacina
Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that tracks anti-Asian attacks, has documented nearly 11,500 hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) across the United States between March 19, 2020 and March 31, 2022. Two-thirds (67%) of the recorded incidents…
· Ryan General
A study published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities on Tuesday found that Bay Area residents of Asian descent were more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than any other racial or ethnic group in 2020. While the study also included Black, Hispanic and…
· Michelle De Pacina
Tammel Esco, the 42-year-old man arrested for allegedly punching a 67-year-old Filipino American woman in March, was arraigned on Tuesday and held without bail. Esco has been indicted on multiple hate crime charges, including attempted second-degree murder as a hate crime and…
· Ryan General
San Francisco District 4’s Supervisor Gordon Mar was recently targeted with a series of racist and homophobic flyers pasted over his re-election campaign posters. “Over the weekend and under the cover of darkness, someone decided to paste these flyers over our window signs in…
· Michelle De Pacina
Catt Phan, 26, and her friend were at a Halsey concert in Irvine, California, when another group of concert-goers allegedly dumped a drink on them and spewed anti-Asian comments on July 9. “F*ck those Asian b*tches. Don’t let them ruin our night. They don’t belong here anyways,”…
· Carl Samson
Police in Suffolk County, New York, are looking for a man accused of ditching an Asian fusion restaurant before completely paying his group’s bill. The group of 16 diners reportedly racked up $1,022.53 at Taste of Asia, located in Huntington Village, on June 20. They paid around…
· Carl Samson
Local authorities warned the residents of Kenosha, Wisconsin, about a suspicious Asian driver allegedly engaging with children. The first incident in the Camp Lake neighborhood reportedly occurred just before 2:45 p.m. on Monday when resident Alicia Milostan’s daughters were…
· Ryan General
The UCLA Asian American Studies Center will use the $10 million in state funding it received from California to develop the AAPI Multimedia Textbook, an online platform containing lessons about the cultures, histories and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in…
· Carl Samson
Wagner Ernesto Pena Tejeda was arrested in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Thursday for the fatal shooting of an elderly Asian man in Philadelphia. Tejeda, 24, allegedly shot 76-year-old Loi Nguyen dead while the latter was returning home from a morning walk on June 21. He was also…
· Bryan Ke
Hundreds of people gathered at the memorial service for Im Ja Choi, a celebrated advocate for Asian American seniors, at the Evergreen Center in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Choi, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019, died at a hospital in South Korea on June 22. She moved to…
· Carl Samson
Michael John Allen, 40, is facing hate crime and assault charges after allegedly attacking three Asian women in two separate incidents in downtown Seattle on July 11. During the first alleged attack, which occurred in the 500 block of Olive Way, Allen reportedly hit a woman in…
· Carl Samson
New York police are searching for a man accused of headbutting another man and yelling anti-Asian remarks at him in Queens, New York City, on Tuesday. The victim, 22, was on Steinway Street near 34th Ave. when the suspect reportedly approached him at around 8:55 p.m. According…
· Grace Kim
John Cho knows a thing or two about breaking free from conventional Asian American roles. Since his days of playing Harold in the “Harold and Kumar” film series of the early 2000s, the actor has had several “first Asian” titles attached to his name – the first Asian male lead in…
· Michelle De Pacina
Madeline Barker, the 47-year-old woman accused of hurling xenophobic comments and pepper-spraying a group of four Asian women in Chelsea last month, was indicted on 12 hate crime charges on Thursday in Manhattan Criminal Court. Barker was indicted on eight counts of assault in…
· Ryan General
Advocacy group Elimin8Hate from Vancouver, Canada, created ReclaimYourName.dic, a custom dictionary that adds over 8,000 names from more than 12 Asian countries to Microsoft Word. The group, which serves as the advocacy arm of the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, said that the…
· Bryan Ke
The New York City Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man accused of hurling anti-Asian remarks at a 62-year-old Asian victim at a Mobil gas station at 147-10 Northern Blvd. in Flushing, Queens, on July 5. Authorities said the victim was walking to…
· Bryan Ke
The New York City Police Department is asking the public for help in identifying a man who allegedly kicked a 57-year-old woman in the hip after yelling, "Get out of this country, bitch," in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood on Tuesday. The incident reportedly occurred on…
· Ryan General
On Wednesday, the University of Michigan appointed 59-year-old Santa Ono as its first Asian American president following a unanimous vote by the school’s board of regents. Ono, former president of the University of Cincinnati and current president and vice-chancellor at the…
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