As town meetings go, the discussion was fairly routine, meandering from what Memorial Day celebrations might look like in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, to a federal grant application for bulletproof vests for police officers. But when the time came for the trustees in West Chester Township, Ohio, to deliver personal remarks at […]
Even before the deadly shootings at spas in the Atlanta area killed six women of Asian descent, President Biden had taken steps to address the recent surge of violence against Asians and Asian Americans by making forceful statements against hate and harassment, banning the federal government from employing the sort of “inflammatory and xenophobic” language […]
Derogatory tweets by the vice president of San Francisco’s Board of Education have recently resurfaced, prompting several San Franciscans to push for her resignation. Resurfaced Tweets: In a series of tweets from 2016, Vice President Alison Collins shared anti-Asian American sentiments, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Collins, who was elected to the San Francisco Unified School District Board in 2018, took […]
When the coronavirus pandemic ground China to a near-halt in early February last year, Youssouf Dieng jetted back to Dakar for, he thought, a brief sojourn. In reality, it was a year before Dieng — who had worked as a goods trader in the manufacturing hub of Guangzhou in southern China for two decades — […]
At the outset of the pandemic, New York City was the first region in the country to experience widespread COVID-19 contraction and death rates, with more than 200,000 cases, 50,000 hospitalizations, and 17,000 deaths between March 1 and May 31, 2020. As state, city, and federal data, including statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and […]
An Asian-American chef’s ramen restaurant in Texas was vandalized with racist graffiti over the weekend after he spoke out against the state’s decision to lift a mask mandate put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Graffiti was found at San Antonio’s Noodle Tree on Sunday, the restaurant’s chef and owner, Mike Nguyen, told […]
If one thing was made clear last year, it’s that American policing is a deeply flawed institution. Protests over racism and the police killings of Black Americans have fueled efforts to shift funding away from law enforcement and toward social services like mental health care and education. Cities across the country are now grappling with what the function […]
Steven Yeun has just become the first-ever Asian-American actor to receive an Oscar nomination for best actor in history. On Monday when couple Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas announced the 2021 nominees, Yeun was nominated for “Minari,” Lee Isaac Chung’s American dream drama following a South Korean family trying to make a success of their farm in 1980s Arkansas. No Asian-American […]
Every night, the neighbors converge on the Si family’s two-story home, which has large windows and an expansive porch adorned with columns. Some sit in camping chairs in front of the driveway. Others keep watch from their cars or patrol the nearby parks. The Sis moved to this upscale Ladera Ranch neighborhood a few months […]
In Sacramento, California, last Friday, a high school Spanish teacher made a slant-eyed gesture during a Zoom class. “If their eyes went up, they’re Chinese. If they’re down, they’re Japanese,” she said in a video recorded by a student. “If they’re just straight, you don’t know.” Four months earlier, a U.S. marine threatened to shoot […]