Buffalo shooting Federal Prosecutors File 26 Hate Crime Charges Against Suspected Buffalo Shooter The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that they had filed 26 hate crime charges against the gunman suspected of killing 10 people in a racially-motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store.
aapi heritage Asian Americans Struggle to Feel Safe After Surge in Hate Crimes NBCLX contributor Michelle Park has avoided the New York subways since March 2020, following a surge in viral hate crimes targeting Asian Americans. Michelle speaks with civil rights attorney and author Qian Julie Wang, and Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg. Plus, hear from Michelle Tran, founder of Soar Over Hate, a group that provides protective devices like pepper spray and...
hate crimes A Former Nazi and a Hate Crime Survivor Have a Conversation About Hate “You woke up every day, you’re at war with the world,” says former Nazi Jeff Schoep. In this video from NBCLX contributor Bart Vandever, Schoep and hate crime survivor Josh Stepakoff unpack why hate and radicalism permeate society today and their effects.
AAPI Six Things You Can Do Today to Help the AAPI Community Police have seen a notable uptick in such crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the coronavirus pandemic.
asian americans Cheryl Burke of ‘Dancing With the Stars' Speaks Out Against Anti-AAPI Hate TV personality Cheryl Burke said she worries for her mom in the San Francisco Bay Area as hate crimes spiked during the pandemic, with many Asian Americans and women becoming victims. The attacks “hit too close to home.”
asian americans Hate Against Asian Americans Predates the Pandemic. It's Part of U.S. History. Hate against people of Asian descent has roots in U.S. history, dating back centuries before three shootings in Atlanta, GA, last week that killed 8 people including 6 Asian American women. Sue Ann Hong, head of the Center for Asian Pacific American Women, speaks with LX News.
asian americans Asian Americans Are Raising Their Voices After Lifetimes of Feeling ‘Unseen and Unheard' In the wake of the Atlanta-area shootings that killed six Asian women last week, many Asian Americans across the country are coming to terms with the covert, and sometimes overt, racism they’ve experienced over a lifetime. NBCLX contributor Michelle Park spoke to fellow Asian Americans about the pain they’ve experienced over the past year — and why staying silent is...
Black API Solidarity Solidarity Movements Hope to Bridge Divide Between Black and Asian Communities Examples of solidarity between the Black and Asian communities in the U.S. date back to the 19th century. And tensions between the two groups also stretch back generations. LX News host Jobeth Devera recounts the history of this complicated relationship and talks to Catherine Ceniza Choy, an ethnic studies professor from UC Berkeley, about what comes next for the solidarity...
Atlanta spa shootings ‘Too Many People Got Too Comfortable' With Hate Prior to Atlanta Shootings, U.S. Rep. Says Rep. Marilyn Strickland, D-WA, says rhetoric from the Trump administration and “enablers” during the pandemic contributed to violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders this past year, and at Atlanta spas last week. She also tells LX News about hate crime legislation moving through Congress.
hate crimes Recognizing Hate Crimes Is the First Step to Stopping Them The Atlanta-area spa shootings that took the lives of six Asian American women and two others, have touched off a debate about what constitutes a hate crime. Chris Lu, an attorney who served as White House cabinet secretary under former President Obama, joined LX News to explain why fighting hate crimes starts with recognizing and reporting them.
