Why hate crime data can't capture the true scope of anti-Asian violence | CNN
There has been a marked rise in anti-Asian violence across the United States, an issue that once again rattled a community on edge after the Tuesday mass shooting deaths of eight people at spas in the Atlanta area, six of whom were Asian.
Students are fed up with racist slurs and bullying. Now they're walking out of class | CNN
Some Black students are being told they stink while others are being called monkeys by their White peers. The n-word has been written on the walls of school restrooms as other students are the targets of racist rants on social media.
Should Private Company Be Writing Police Policies? - The Crime Report
Lexipol, a little-known private company based in Orange County that over the past two decades has quietly become one of the most influential forces in U.S. policing, writing policy statements for many police departments.
Man charged with killing 8 people at Georgia massage parlors
ATLANTA (AP) — A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community , which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic.
Hate crimes in US reach highest level in more than a decade
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level in more than a decade as federal officials also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the FBI began collecting that data in the early 1990s, according to an FBI report released Monday...
A Generational Threat: The Disturbing American History Of Anti-Asian Discrimination - Character Media
In the age of COVID-19, an epidemic of anti-Asian bias and violence is spreading across America. The hard truth is that this isn’t new—in fact, for any student of history, it’s very familiar.
From colonialism to Covid: Viet Thanh Nguyen on the rise of anti-Asian violence
During the pandemic, anti-Asian violence is on the rise around the world. The Pulitzer-winning author reflects on his own experiences as a Vietnamese American – and the dark history that continues to fuel the current hate
Family of Ahmaud Arbery wants racial justice as murderers face new trial
The family of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger who was chased by three white men in pickup trucks and gunned down in south Georgia in 2020, says that the men's federal hate crimes trial will do what the state court did not - reckon with race.