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  Ken Yeung

  

  6 days ago

  Racist and sexist disinformation is sowing divisions among Asian Americans

  NBC News - Kimmy Yam

  A new report spotlights how disinformation not only pits Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders against other marginalized groups but also sows divisions within the community itself, sometimes to intentionally diminish its collective political influence. The study, released last week by a coalition …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  Oakland Chinatown faces a ‘dual pandemic’ of violence, COVID

  The Mercury News - Junyao Yang

  Tony Fong never expected the pandemic to linger so long. When Fong closed his 7,000-square-foot Buffet Fortuna — an Oakland Chinatown staple for …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  A Seattle man faces a hate crime charge after allegedly punching an Asian woman

  NBC News - Zachary Schermele

  King County prosecutors filed hate crime and fourth-degree assault charges against a man Thursday after he allegedly punched two women, one of whom was from China, in downtown Seattle. Just after 5 p.m. on July 11, Seattle police officers responded to reports of a shirtless white man punching …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  ‘An epidemic of hate’: Anti-Asian hate crimes in California jumped 177% in 2021

  Los Angeles Times - Felicia Alvarez

  The number of hate crimes in California rose for the third year in a row in 2021 and included a sizable uptick in the number of anti-Asian crimes, according to a report from the state attorney general. The California Department of Justice released its annual report on hate crimes on Tuesday morning, …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  "I don’t want to go outside": Racism is keeping many Asian Americans from going to the doctor

  Vox - Jenny Chen

  This story is part of The Aftermath, a Vox series about the collateral health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in communities around the US. This series is supported in part by the NIHCM Foundation. Jenny H. loved going out to volunteer in San Francisco, her home city for the past three decades. She …

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  Ken Yeung

  

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  Vincent Chin and Anti-Asian Hate, 40 Years Later

  

  Curated byKen Yeung

  He was out celebrating with friends at his bachelor party when he was murdered by two white Detroit autoworkers on June 19, 1982. They allegedly blamed the 27-year-old Chinese-American man for their industry's rising unemployment. Chin's killers pled guilty to manslaughter but received three years probation and a fine. Four decades later, read how the case impacts how Asian Americans are viewed in the United States.