Northeast Asian Weekly - A jury on April 20 found former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than 9 minutes last year in one of the most consequential trials of the Black Lives Matter era. . ....
I caught the verdicts while livestreaming. All I could hear were the key words: “ Guilty….Guilty….Guilty.”
An astonishing triplet.
A cop lost in court. You could hear the relief of an entire nation. Few were confident of the outcome.
But I was hopeful, because of the absence of a long-standing en...
In America, it seems we can’t stop killing one another en masse. Last Friday, the shooting at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis claimed at least eight victims, four of whom were Sikh Americans.
They were identified by police as Amarjeet Johal, 66; Amarjeet Sekhon, 48; Jaswinder Kaur, 64; Jaswinder...
Bloomberg Law - A group of some 40 law firms, including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and White & Case, and a group of large company law departments, are launching a national pro bono initiative to aid victims and help prevent acts of anti-Asian hate. . .
Initial case intake will be done by The National ...
ABC News - Violence and harassment against Asian Americans continue to make national headlines – but experts and advocates say some of those attacks may never be tried as hate crimes.
Several factors can deter investigators from pursuing a crime as one motivated by hate, they said. . .
And if ther...
Hideki Matsuyama won the golf tournament this past weekend that really shouldn’t be called the “Masters” anymore. At least, not during a time when the homonym doesn’t immediately imply “masters of golf” but another group of “masters,” promoting the rollback of voting rights of African Americans and ...
TODAY - From 2019 to 2020, hate crimes against Asian Americans increased by 150% in major cities like New York and Los Angeles, a study by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, concluded. . .
“After 9/11, we had over 300 calls about violence ...
Did you go to church on Easter Sunday?
Did you feel like Vilma Kari?
If you hadn’t heard, Kari, widely identified as “Asian American Woman, 65,” is the Filipino American who was viciously attacked as she walked to church on Easter Monday of Holy Week in New York City.
Her attacker, arrested last ...
As an Asian American Filipino (that’s my new term, I’m an AAF), I’ve been fascinated by the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer accused of murdering George Floyd.
All of the country has. It’s modern America’s racial reckoning.
But I got distracted when I saw reports of two new vicious attac...
Politico - This month’s killing spree at Atlanta-area spas is pushing Korean American pastors to do something quietly radical: Urge their flocks to get politically involved and rise up against racism against Asian Americans. . .
An invigorated Korean community, pushed to action by Korean churches, ...
Harvard Gazette: By Aaron Mukerjee. Growing up as an Indian American in a small town in southeast Michigan, I understood what it was like to be an outsider. As recently as 2020, my hometown made international headlines for all the wrong reasons when two parents clashed during a school meeting focuse...
The increase in anti-Asian hate crimes has been devastating for the AAPI community, but we must remain vigilant and continue to speak out against racism and all forms of hate and violence.
Please join us on Friday, March 26 for a National Virtual Day of Action and Healing and pledge to #StopAsianHa...
Rob Bonta?
Asian Americans around the country better get to know Bonta, nominated on Wednesday to be the first Filipino American Attorney General of California.
Good timing, I’d say. Just when the focus in the news has drafted from Atlanta to Boulder, here comes the announcement that California’s ...
Join AALDEF and RAISE (Revolutionizing Asian American Immigrant Stories on the East Coast) for our next virtual immigration clinic on Thursday, March 25 at 6 pm ET. AALDEF attorneys will provide updates on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and DREAM Act immigration bills. We will answer ...
I’m all for recycling. The good kind. Paper. Plastics. Just not the hate.
But what do we have with us in Atlanta?
It’s Vincent Chin with the names changed.
Soon Chung Park, 74, who worked at Gold spa.
Hyun Jung Grant, 51, the single mother who worked at Gold Spa to support herself and her two so...
Los Angeles Times - For this weekend’s Food section, the Food team marked the anniversary of the pandemic-related shutdowns and its rippling effects on Los Angeles’ dining and cooking culture. . . .
For [Bill Addison’s] contribution to the section, I asked myself what an L.A. food writer in 10 year...
Suddenly, they see us. We’re in the news. Six Asian American women are dead after a mindless, despicable killing spree in Atlanta. Even President Biden and Vice President Harris will visit the scene on Friday.
Here’s how significant this all is.
In Atlanta, the place where MLK is entombed, we’ve j...
Six Asian women and two others were killed at three separate spa locations in North Georgia on March 16. While the facts and motivations are still under investigation, the board and staff of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) express shock and sadness at what appears to be ...
We wait for more details from Georgia. But what we know should put every Asian American on high alert—if you weren’t already.
Eight people are dead in a shooting spree at three massage spas around Atlanta. Six of the victims have been identified as Asian women. Four of them have been confirmed by S...
Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson may be the hope we are looking for.
The part-Black, part-Filipino singer-songwriter–better known as H.E.R.–won a Grammy for song of the year for the George Floyd-inspired protest song, “I Can’t Breathe.”
She is the embodiment of the harmony that comes when we take a love...
