Month: April 2021

The writer and poet Cathy Hong Park discusses Asian outrage and why she’s seeking power, not assimilation.

It took the mass murder of six Asian women in Atlanta last week to draw national attention to what Asian Americans have been warning about since the wake of the pandemic: anti-Asian violence. The incident reflects an under-recognized history of anti-Asian violence and discrimination in this country that dates back more than 150 years. This … Read more

The initiative, titled “Hope Against Hate,” is a solution program by AAF made in response to the uptick in violent attacks on Asians throughout the U.S. and especially in the five boroughs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Many Asian Americans have said their fears have largely been ignored by the mainstream media and, in turn, you know, by the general public. And they’ve expressed frustration that it took, you know, the kind of shootings like we saw in Atlanta last week for many outlets to even acknowledge that this anti-Asian violence was … Read more

Filipinos make up a small fraction of the nurses in the United States, but almost a third of the nurses who have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. have been of Filipino descent. So what exactly is going on?

East West Players revoked their membership, followed by Center Theatre Group and A Noise Within