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…
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We Need To Stop Blaming the Victims of Police Brutality For The Violence Committed Against Their Bodies
An unarmed 16-year-old schoolgirl who refuses to put away her cellphone does not deserve being grabbed by the neck and…
Cops: Toddler Disfigured By Grenade in “No-Knock” Raid a “Criminal”, To Blame For His Injuries | #JusticeForBouBou
(H/T @boygainvillea) Last year, nineteen month-old Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh was sleeping peacefully in his playpen in Habersham County, Georgia.…
Who Watches The Watchmen: Police Accountability in the New Age of Racial Justice
This post was published hours before the verdict in the Rekia Boyd manslaughter trial was announced. This post has been…
Why We Must Support the Indictment of Peter Liang
In December of last year, I predicted that Officer Peter Liang — the rookie New York Police Department cop who…
Grand Jury considering indictment of Asian American cop in shooting death of unarmed Akai Gurley
There was no indictment in the shooting death of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. There…
Minorities Trapped in Tropes: The Conservative Right’s Cognitive Dissonance on POC Humanity
Earlier this year, unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson; earlier this month, a…
84yo Asian American victim of NYPD brutality to sue city for $5 million
I blogged earlier this year about the story of Kang Chun Wong, the 84 year old Chinese American man who…
Peace march at Yale emphasizes injustice of #MikeBrown’s murder & #solidarity with #Ferguson
In the wake of the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson ten days…
Lives Unlived & Dreams Undone: America’s Siege on Blackness | #Ferguson
An unarmed teenager raises his hands above his head and pleads for his life. He is fatally gunned down by…