Hate crimes jumped nearly 12% in 2021, new FBI figures show
The revised statistics follow preliminary numbers that indicated a slight decrease in hate crimes that year.
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Asian Americans most likely to join employee diversity groups but don’t feel supported, report says
“The pattern they see is regardless of whether they’re involved in these ERGs, they’re not seeing much in the way of progress,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder of AAPI Data.
No, my Japanese American parents were not ‘interned’ during WWII. They were incarcerated
Internment. Incarceration. Not many people make a distinction between the two terms or understand why it’s so important to do so. But in a historic decision aimed at accuracy and reconciliation, the Los Angeles Times announced Thursday that it would drop the use of “internment” in most cases to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 … Read more
One of nation’s first Asian American bookstores is closing after 41 years
Berkeley’s Eastwind Books — which focused on justice and solidarity, published when others wouldn’t, and stocked everything from rare recordings to academic texts to martial arts paperbacks — will close on April 30.
East Asians more likely to develop stomach cancer because of lower alcohol tolerance, new study says
The inability to properly process alcohol enables it to sit in the stomach for a long time, making frequent drinkers more likely to develop chronic stomach inflammation, one researcher said.
Biden commemorates the anniversary of Atlanta deadly spa shootings
“I want you to know that I see you. My administration sees you. And we are determined to end the scourge of gun violence, anti-Asian hate, and all forms of racism and extremism in this Nation,” Biden said in a statement.