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Security guards failed to intervene while a man kicked and stomped on a 65-year-old woman near Times Square, yelling, “You don’t belong here.”

The proposal would fund social services nonprofits, public education and data disaggregation.

The U.S. has no national curriculum that requires the teaching of any kind of history, let alone Asian-American history. But individual states’ social studies standards, which influence what will be included in standardized tests and textbooks, only scratch the surface of Asian-American history.

Today, President Biden is announcing new actions to respond to the increase in acts of anti-Asian violence, and to advance safety, inclusion, and belonging for all Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. These actions build on the President’s Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the … Read more

The Asian American community has seen an outpouring of concern and support since March 16, 2021, when a White gunman opened fire on three local businesses in Atlanta, killing eight people, including 6 Asian American women. The tragedy brought new attention to anti-Asian bias in the United States. New survey data from a joint project … Read more

After being postponed from its original date slated for last fall, Kenneth Tam’s “Silent Spikes” exhibition debuted at the Queens Museum on Feb. 24. The exhibition addresses the topics of hyper-masculinity and racism. “Silent Spikes” represents a sobering realization of the anti-Asian hate seen throughout America’s history and also since the beginning of COVID-19, according … Read more