Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Top congressional Democrats are calling on their Republican colleagues to support legislation introduced by Sen. Mazie Hirono and Rep. Grace Meng that addresses the rising number of hate crimes and violence against Asian Americans.
Asian American students are far more likely to be learning remotely than members of any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. As of February 2021, almost 7 in 10 Asian American K-12 students were still learning online only, according to the U.S. Education Department’s latest school survey. That’s 12 points higher than … Read more
Even as she cared for COVID-19 patients as a volunteer with the NYC Medical Reserve Corps at the height of the pandemic, Hina Naveed spent her nights studying law at the CUNY School of Law. A registered nurse, Naveed earned her Juris Doctorate on Jan. 14, her third degree from CUNY.
April is National Poetry Month, a celebration of poets and poetry that’s been in place for 25 years. NPR’s resident poet Kwame Alexander took lines from the submissions to create a community poem, “Today, I Am A Witness To Change.” Contributors are credited at the bottom.
The NYPD struggles to accurately identify, track and communicate data about anti-Asian hate crimes — sowing confusion among victims and potentially hindering the department’s response to the crisis, a Gothamist/WNYC investigation has found.
The Covid vaccine rollout has been riddled with data gaps from the outset, especially when it comes to patients’ race and ethnicity. And those gaps could weigh especially heavily on people of Asian descent, whose struggles with racism, violent attacks and health disparities are only now getting belated attention.