NYPD Seeking Information on Suspects in Apparent Anti-Asian Hate Crime Assault
Gothamist reports today that the NYPD are seeking the public’s help in identifying two suspects in an alleged anti-Asian hate…
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Dear John, | #FeministJohnCho
Dear John, You don’t know me, but I’ve been with you since the very beginning. I was organizing on-campus screenings…
BREAKING: Purvi Patel’s Feticide Conviction Overturned in Appeals Court
Purvi Patel’s feticide and child neglect convictions — which led to her 20-year jail sentence for the death of her fetus — were…
BREAKING: US Representative Mark Takai Dies of Pancreatic Cancer at 49
US Representative Mark Takai, a first-term Democratic Congressman from Hawaii, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 49. Takai had…
Why a Vice President Mike Pence is Bad News for AAPIs
Hours ago, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump confirmed weeks of political gossip with his announcement that he…
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…
Meeting People Where They Are: The Seed Crystal of the Letters for Black Lives Project
Last week, America once again recoiled under the weight of this country’s ongoing criminalization of the Black body when two…
I’m Not Here for the Asian Americans Who Won’t Get Behind #BlackLivesMatter
Two days ago, police shot and killed another Black man — the latest victim in an epidemic of state-sanctioned gun…
“Uprooted From the Scenes” Film Screening Highlights Budding AAPI Filmmakers
Visual Communications, a community non-profit which has focused on supporting AAPI filmmakers since its founding in 1970, will be holding…
California Turns Down Opportunity to Receive Federal Money to Disaggregate AAPI Data
Southeast Asian American and Pacific Islander advocates have said that data disaggregation is one of the core civil rights issues…
Supreme Court Votes to Protect Abortion Access: Why It Matters for AAPI Women
Today, the Supreme Court handed down another major decision. After they voted last week to protect affirmative action (yay!), but then…
‘Doesn’t Mean We Bang’: Reckless Criminalization and Monstrous Peril in the Case of Dylan Yang
By Guest Contributors: Pao Lee Vue, Bee Vang, and Louisa Schein Last March, Wausau resident Dylan Yang, 16 – who…