Man arrested in NYC attack on 65-year-old Asian woman
Brandon Elliot, who faces hate crime charges in the latest attack, is already on lifetime parole for fatally stabbing his mother, police said.
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50% of AAPI Women Say Racism Has Affected Their Lives
Seventy-eight percent of AAPI women said they had been affected by anti-Asian racism within the past two years, and half reported they had personally experienced racist incidents, according to the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum.
Brutal Attack on Filipino Woman Sparks Outrage: ‘Everybody Is on Edge’
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.”
Coalition wants state budget to include $19.5M for Asian Americans
The proposal would fund social services nonprofits, public education and data disaggregation.
A ‘History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility.’ Why the Asian-American Story Is Missing From Many U.S. Classrooms
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.
FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Additional Actions to Respond to Anti-Asian Violence, Xenophobia and Bias
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