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“People question my patriotism, that I don’t look American enough,” Lee Wong, an elected official in an Ohio township, said at a recent public meeting.

“Things for Asians in this country have been bleak for the past two weeks — and all the weeks before that since forever,” Yang said on “Weekend Update.”

Writer Paula Yoo was 13 years old and finishing up seventh grade when Vincent Chin was killed. Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman who was celebrating his impending wedding at a strip club in Detroit, when he was bludgeoned to death by a pair of white men. Those men were apparently upset by their perception that … Read more

After a series of shootings at Asian spas killed eight people in Atlanta – six of them Asian women – the country is undergoing a reckoning with anti-Asian racism. Asian American faculty and staff say campuses have a role to play in this moment.

Bethany Long Newman says she saw herself in the victims of last week’s shooting outside of Atlanta, when a gunman rampaged through three spas and killed eight people. Of the eight victims, six were women of Asian descent.

The Asian American Federation gives the media a “C” for its coverage of Asian American communities in New York. With headlines dominated by an alarming surge in hate crimes targeting Americans of Asian descent, we went directly to the community for a review. Leaders there say the media was late to expose the hateful and … Read more