May 6, 2021
A man in San Francisco was charged with stabbing two elderly Asian women at a bus stop, but the attack has not yet been determined a hate crime.
Violent attacks against Chinese and other Asian Americans have skyrocketed in the United...
May 6, 2021
Reported hate crimes against Asian-Americans in the nation’s 16 largest cities jumped 164% in early 2021, according to a new study by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University San Bernardino.
The...
May 5, 2021
A collective of over 40 law firms and large company law departments in the U.S. has launched a national pro bono initiative to help victims of anti-Asian hate and prevent further incidents of violence.
The Alliance for Asian American...
May 5, 2021
The NYPD needs help in identifying a suspect who allegedly assaulted an Asian man inside a Queens subway station last month.
What happened: The unidentified man approached the 22-year-old victim while inside the Queens Plaza subway...
May 5, 2021
Two older Asian American women waiting at a San Francisco bus stop on Tuesday afternoon were approached by a man with a knife and stabbed — the latest in a string of violent attacks on Asian Americans across the US. Police later arrested...
May 5, 2021
Amid Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, dozens of digital billboards around Greater Boston boast slogans supporting the country’s largest diaspora.
Stand with us, some read. We belong here. Protect our elders.
The...
May 6, 2021
The owners of Third Culture Bakery and Matcha Café recently created safety kits to help Asian Americans who are concerned about the recent escalation in violent incidents against the community. Directions for the kits come in multiple...
May 5, 2021
The March 16 Atlanta mass shooting killed 8 people, 6 of whom were women of Asian American descent. That was followed by the Indianapolis shooting in April, where 4 of the 8 victims were members of the Sikh community. These recent...
May 5, 2021
Anti-Asian sentiments are not a novel phenomenon in the United States, but of late, discrimination, harassment and violence against Asian-Americans has been steadily increasing at an alarming rate since the onset of the global...
May 5, 2021
A man has been arrested after he was caught on security camera footage brutally beating two Asian women with a cinder block as they were trying to close up a liquor store in Baltimore, Maryland.
The attack came after a new report releas...
April 30, 2021
Eric Vogelsang, professor of sociology, co-authored a paper with Andrea Polonijo, a post-doctoral fellow at the UC Riverside School of Medicine, that examined “how sociodemographic characteristics, health behaviors, and self-rated...
May 3, 2021
In Part Two of a four-part series on “Is Life a Solo Journey?” in his Psychology Today blog, “The Art of Living Free,” Anthony Silard, associate professor of public administration, shared some of his thoughts after he and his family...