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The Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) Center for Ethnic Studies has led the way to the creation of a new department, the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies, which offers an Associate in Arts (A.A.) degree in Ethnic Studies.

“Enough is enough — our community has been through enough trauma,” Komal Chohan, who lost his maternal grandmother in the shooting, said.

This interactive map is the product of more than a decade of research from the Endangered Language Alliance, a group that seeks to document and preserve smaller, minority, and Indigenous languages across New York City.

Newly spurred to action to combat bias, they generate subway posters, leverage social media, stage Zoom webinars. “Our community couldn’t take being invisible any longer,” one artist says.

A New York woman has raised more than $125,000 in two days to pay for safe and verified ride shares following a spike in anti-Asian attacks. News NOW speaks to Maddy Park, founder of Cafe Maddy Cab, about her experiences of fearing for her safety and what she hopes to achieve through fundraising.

Hate crimes against Asian people have surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, but they go back a long way in the U.S.