Asian American voters support Biden at 54% and Trump at 30%, but numbers don’t tell full story
Biden leads among Asian Americans, and Trump has both gained and lost ground, researchers say.
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Ocean Vuong win American Book Awards
Fiction by Ocean Vuong (Brooklyn College alum) and Yoko Ogawa, a prison memoir by Alfred Woodfox and a graphic memoir based on actor George Takei’s childhood in a U.S. internment camp for Japanese Americans are the among the winners of the 41st annual American Book Awards.
NYPD makes Asian Hate Crime Task Force permanent
The NYPD has made the newly formed Asian Hate Crime Task Force permanent as racist attacks on Asian-Americans continue in the city amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials announced Wednesday.
2020 Voter Survey Shows Asian American Preference for Candidates, Concern for In-Person Voting, Views on BLM, and More
Advancing Justice- AAJC, APIAVote, and AAPI Data Release New Survey Data on Asian Americans
Faces of Power: 80% Are White, Even as U.S. Becomes More Diverse
A review by The New York Times of more than 900 officials and executives in prominent positions found that about 20 percent identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, multiracial or otherwise a person of color. More than 40 percent of Americans identify with one of those groups.
From Tagalog to Korean, these Asian Americans are using quarantine to learn their families’ languages
“The global crisis has really made people re-evaluate priorities. … For some people like myself, it might be reconnecting with their roots,” Danielle Colayco said.