Asians 4 Black Lives: Structural Racism is the Pandemic, Interdependence and Solidarity is the Cure
By Guest Contributor: Asians4BlackLives (@Asians4BlkLives) This essay was originally posted on Medium, and is republished here at the request of…
Tag: BlackLivesMatter
GAPIMNY Statement on the Murder of George Floyd
By Guest Contributor: GAPIMNY This post was originally published on the GAPIMNY website and is reproduced here at the authors’…
Police Killing of Chinese Man in Paris Demands Greater Scrutiny of Police Brutality
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Paris this week to protest the killing of 56-year-old Liu Shaoyo, a father…
26 Years After the Murder of Latasha Harlins, Asian Americans Still Have a Lot of Work to do Around Anti-Blackness
In Charlotte, North Carolina, the Black community is calling for a boycott of Missha Beauty after the owner Sung Ho…
The Unbearable Silence of the World in the Face of Those Whose Lives Were Taken
By Guest Contributor: Ammara Khursheed July 6th 2016: At work, I check Facebook, my newsfeed is flooded with images of the…
Why and How Asian Americans Must Mobilize for Black Lives
By Guest Contributor: Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (@KaelaMeiShing) Black lives matter. Full stop. Any discussion of police violence against American lives must…
The Long Road Ahead: Why Black Lives Matter For a Muslim American Woman
By Guest Contributor: Anisa Khalifa (@anisakhalifa_) After the killings of this past week, it feels on some level as if…
Dear Black Folks
By Guest Contributor: Stacy G Dear Black folks I don’t know what it’s like to question authority because I had…
California’s Proposed Bill to Disaggregate AAPI Data Significantly Weakened in New Amendments
After months of increasingly vitriolic debate that divided the AAPI community, California Assembly Bill 1726 (AB1726) was significantly amended on…
$4.5 Million Dollar Settlement Reached in Shooting Death of Akai Gurley
NBC News reports today that a settlement was reached in a civil suit filed by the Gurley family following the…
Why This Election Matters
By Guest Contributor: Timmy Lu (@timmyhlu) I’ve been voting and tracking national electoral politics since I was nine, when I…
The Mattering of Black Lives for Non-Black People of Color
By Guest Contributor: Cynthia Wu I first became aware of Minnesota’s outlier status when I lived there between 2002 and…