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Community
Asian Americans emerge as key voters in Georgia’s politics
As their population rapidly expands, Asian Americans are becoming a decisive force in Georgia’s tight political races. With voter turnout ne...
Carl Samson
Feature
Sex shop replaces GOP Asian American outreach center in Georgia
An upscale adult shop reportedly replaced a former GOP outreach center in Gwinnett County, Georgia, set up to engage Asian American voters. ...
Editorial Staff
China
Georgia Dems: Bill limiting land purchases by Chinese ‘agents’ is racist
Democrats in Georgia are raising concerns over a bill passed by the state’s House of Representatives that puts limitations on land pur...
Ryan General
Gen Z Indian American launches historic bid for Georgia State Senate
An Indian American software engineer is seeking to become the first Indian American and Gen Z senator in Georgia’s legislature. Key po...
News
Biden campaign ad targets AANHPI voters in battleground states
President Joe Biden has released a new ad targeting Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) voters in battleground sta...
Bryan Ke
Asian American History
Hundreds gathered nationwide to honor victims of Atlanta spa shootings
The Asian Justice Movement organized events nationwide to commemorate the deadly shooting spree at three metro Atlanta massage spas nearly t...
Michelle De Pacina
Government
Georgia swears in its first-ever Asian American mayor
John Park, a South Korean immigrant, became Georgia’s first Asian American mayor after being sworn in at the Brookhaven City Hall on M...
Georgia gets its first-ever Asian American mayor
John Park, a longtime councilmember in Brookhaven, Georgia, made history on Tuesday by becoming the state’s first-ever Asian American ...
Georgia voting laws disproportionately affect AAPI voters: report
The Georgia legislature’s new restrictions on absentee voting are disproportionately affecting the Asian American and Pacific Islander...
Crime
Woman whose body was found in a suitcase in Georgia in 1988 identified
A woman whose remains were discovered inside a suitcase in Georgia’s Jenkins County 35 years ago has been identified as Chong-un Kim, a Sout...
Man wanted for targeting elderly Asian women in Georgia armed robbery
Police in Gwinnett County, Georgia, are warning the public about a man who followed and robbed two elderly Asian women at gunpoint earlier t...
6 ‘Soldiers of Christ’ arrested for death of malnourished S. Korean woman found in car trunk
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to correct misspellings of some of the suspects’ names and misidentification in the...
Atlanta
Watch: Man gets ignored by customers while trying to rob Atlanta nail salon
The Atlanta Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who was ignored while trying to rob a nail salon on July ...
Business
Asian businesses in Georgia county call for action as they are targeted by burglaries
Saigon Services owner John Dang lamented how the attack on his business appeared to have been done by individuals who are “very professional...
Georgia man accused of scamming elderly Koreans of over $300,000 via pyramid scheme
A man in Georgia has been accused of amassing over $300,000 by defrauding elderly Koreans via a pyramid scheme. Targeting church members: O...
Atlanta spa shooter’s death penalty hearings delayed to May
As the nation commemorates the second anniversary of the deadly Atlanta-area spa mass shootings, gunman Robert Aaron Long still faces the de...
Georgia US senators commemorate 2-year anniversary of Atlanta spa shootings
On Wednesday, Georgia U.S. Sens. Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff commemorated the second anniversary of the deadly Atlanta-area spa shoo...
3 Colombian nationals arrested for burglarizing South Asian residences in North Texas
Three people have been arrested for allegedly targeting South Asian residents in a series of burglaries in Plano, Texas. Colombian national...
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 ...
Georgia Senate runoff campaign releases ads in Korean, Mandarin and Vietnamese
In Georgia’s Dec. 6 Senate runoff, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Republican Herschel Walker are targeting Asian American and P...
Georgia announces its first AAPI caucus ahead of historic 2023
Georgia lawmakers on Monday announced the formal creation of the state’s first-ever bipartisan Georgia Legislative Asian American Pacific I...
Issues & Racism
Photo taken at Asian restaurant in Georgia captures child being taught racist gesture
A photo of Rebekah Lee, a 19-year-old college student in Atlanta, has gone viral on social media due to a racist photobomb captured in the ...
Atlanta spa shooter’s death penalty trial delayed to 2023
Robert Aaron Long, who pleaded guilty to the Atlanta-area spa shootings of March 2021, will begin his death penalty trial in Fulton County ...
Georgia man found guilty of terrorizing Asian restaurant owners, employees in home break-ins
Emmanuel Rakestraw was convicted of breaking into and robbing the homes of several Asian restaurant owners and employees in Georgia’s Gwinn...
Vietnamese American Bee Nguyen wins Democratic nomination for Georgia secretary of state
Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen (D, GA-89) defeated former state Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler (D, GA-91) in the primary runoff on Tuesday to beco...
Culture
Filipino Georgia Tech students go viral with a modernized folk dance performance set to Lil Nas X song
The Filipino Student Association of the Georgia Institute of Technology went viral on social media for their “Gen Z” rendition of the tradi...
Georgia man uses his COVID-19 loan to purchase a $58,000 Pokémon card
A businessman from Dublin, Georgia, is in hot water after allegedly lying in his COVID-19 relief loan application and then using most of the...
12 charged for burglaries worth $2.1 million on Asian American victims in Georgia
Twelve suspects were indicted earlier this month for targeting Asian American homes in Georgia’s Gwinnett County since 2019, authorities ann...
GA Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to kick out every Chinese ‘loyal to CCP’ if she was in charge
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) would deport every last Chinese whose loyalty lies with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), if she h...
GoFundMe created for gay Asian man in coma after being brutally assaulted in Atlanta
The Atlanta Police Department is investigating the case of a gay man who was found with a serious head injury on train tracks in the Lindber...
Asian Woman Fatally Shot a Week Before Her Birthday in Georgia
Loved ones are mourning a 25-year-old Asian woman who was shot to death while driving home in Doraville, Ga., last week. The details: Carmen...
Here Are All the Crowdfund Campaigns for the Atlanta Shooting Victims
On the evening of March 16, eight people were killed by Robert Aaron Long, 21, when he targeted three separate Asian-owned businesses in the...
Grace Kim
Hundreds of #StopAsianHate Supporters Hold Rally Over Mass Shooting in Atlanta
After the recent spa shootings in Georgia, which left eight people dead, six of whom were Asian women, hundreds of people attended an anti-r...
‘Loving, Kind, Generous, Unselfish’: Community Remembers Spa Owner Murdered in Atlanta Shootings
A candlelit vigil was held outside of Youngs Asian Massage for the deceased in the Atlanta-area on Thursday night. At the vigil: Xiaojie “Em...
Maina Chen
Women of Color Call Out Officer for Saying Atlanta Mass Shooter Was Having a ‘Really Bad Day’
Women of color are calling out a law enforcement official who stated that the suspect of the recent mass shootings in Atlanta was just havin...
Police Captain Who Said Atlanta Shooter ‘Had a Bad Day’ Posted Anti-Asian Shirts on Facebook
A police officer who received criticism for appearing to sympathize with the Atlanta mass shooting suspect was found to have made an anti-As...
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