Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Lin, the first Taiwanese American in the NBA, looked back on his meteoric rise in the 2012 season with the New York Knicks, which led to a personal and public racial reckoning.
“As a non-native English speaker myself, I did not appreciate that it was a derogatory term, as I now understand it is. I am very sorry I used it,” professor Franz Werro wrote.
Many of the most populous cities across the country experienced an uptick in hate crimes last year, a trend that has continued since the start of the pandemic, according to a preliminary report from the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino.
North Jersey is home to large swaths of Asian Americans. Areas such as Fort Lee and Leonia are 40% Asian.
Asian women who live in New York City say they’re standing back from the subway edge and walking home with pepper spray in their hands after the killings of Michelle Go and Christina Yuna Lee.
Chinatown leaders will meet with Mayor Eric Adams, the NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg this week to determine what can be done to curb crime in their community and all attacks against Asian-American New Yorkers.