Eight people are dead — six of them believed to be Asian women — and another is wounded after a series of shootings at Atlanta-area spas, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The suspected shooter is in custody. Victims have not been publicly identified by any official sources. There is no official word on motive yet...
Hate crimes against Asian Americans have spiked since the coronavirus entered the U.S. and high profile people like former President Trump dubbed it the “China virus.” But discrimination against the community has been a rampant, but underreported, problem long before COVID-19. Karthick Ramakrishnan of AAPI Data, joined LX News to talk about this painful history...
New data has revealed over the past year, the number of anti-Asian hate incidents — which can include shunning, slurs and physical attacks — is greater than previously reported. And a disproportionate number of attacks have been directed at women. The research released by reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate on Tuesday revealed nearly 3,800 incidents...
Critics said that the broader anti-Asian racial discrimination had been fueled by the way former President Donald Trump talked about the virus when he called it "China virus" and among others. Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder and director of demographic data and policy research nonprofit AAPI Data, said that although hate crimes are not entirely attributed to...
Many community organizations had to make very difficult decisions of cutting back on programs or letting go of staff in order to keep their doors open. Yet the reality that the non-profit community in the region has been lacking adequate funding for several decades now is nothing new. According to a report on the state...
Riverside, CA - The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), the nation’s largest metropolitan planning organization representing six counties, 191 cities, and over 18 million residents, has chosen the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside (CSI-UCR) to conduct research and offer insights and recommendations to advance economic inclusion and equity across Southern California. The...
A Reuters/Ipsos poll in December showed Black people, in particular, were far more likely to fear vaccination than white people. Their skepticism stems in part from historical traumas such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, when government researchers left hundreds of Black men untreated for the disease to study its effects. Many Hispanic communities are fearful...
The Southern California Association of Governments, or SCAG, the nation’s largest metropolitan planning organization representing six counties, 191 cities, and more than 18 million residents, has chosen the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside to conduct research and offer insights and recommendations to advance economic inclusion and equity across Southern California. The project, the...
The analysis released by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, this month examined hate crimes in 16 of America’s largest cities. It revealed that while such crimes in 2020 decreased overall by 7 percent, those targeting Asian people rose by nearly 150 percent. Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder...
In recent weeks, there’s been a spike in racist violence against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across the U.S., specifically targeting elders. Calls for action have since flooded social media and garnered the attention of celebrities, from tennis player Naomi Osaka to actors like John Cho. And though initially underreported in mainstream media, the...
Academic success, Black history and college access are the top three priorities for Black students and their parents in the Inland Empire, according to a first-of-its-kind report focused on local communities and their perspectives on education. The report, “The Inland Empire Black Education Agenda,” released Friday, Feb. 19, was led by BLU Educational foundation in...
On Thursday, Democratic lawmakers unveiled sweeping legislation backed by President Biden that aims to dramatically reform the immigration system in the U.S. At the center of the bill: An eight-year path to citizenship for the roughly 11 million immigrants who are living in the U.S. without legal status, along with other reforms that would affect...
Immigration expansion has slowly been worked on over time. When the Dream Act was introduced, it proposed eventual citizenship for about 2 million who were brought to the United States as children. California has approved driver’s licenses for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients in 2012, and followed up in 2013 with a law allowing...
By Karthick Ramakrishnan & Allan Colbern, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
If there is a future for the region’s middle and upwardly mobile working class, it’s more likely to be found in the state’s large, generally more affordable, interior, known as the Inland Empire, or “the IE.” But for that to happen, the area’s promise needs to be better recognized—and supported—by policymakers. Starting in the second...
By Joel Kotkin & Karla Lopez del Rio, City Watch |
Last week, Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced the Dream Act, co-sponsored by Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), which would grant legalization and eventual citizenship to an estimated 2 million immigrants without papers, who were brought to the United States as children. Even though such legislation has remained highly popular among voters since former Sen. Orrin Hatch...
By Karthick Ramakrishnan & Allan Colbern, Los Angeles Times |
State data shows disproportionate inoculation figures in state and Los Angeles county, nation’s most populous. California released figures on Monday showing the lopsided distribution of Covid-19 vaccines to date, with Black and Latino residents in the state being inoculated at significantly lower rates than other groups. Latinos have received 15% of nearly 5m Covid-19 vaccine...
The experience wasn’t ideal, but targeting vulnerable ZIP codes is one way San Francisco and other U.S. cities and counties are trying to ensure they vaccinate people in largely Black, Latino and working-class communities that have borne the brunt of the pandemic. In Dallas, authorities tried to prioritize such ZIP codes, which tended to be...
The Palm Springs Convention Center will open as a COVID-19 vaccine site on Friday, according to Dr. Geoffrey Leung, Riverside University Health System-Medical Center chief of family medicine. The move will take some pressure off Riverside County's vaccination site in Indio. Clinics at the Palm Springs site will be operated by Curative Inc., and appointments...
This month marks 23 years that I’ve written this column in The Davis Enterprise, which has allowed me and many others to write about nonprofits, businesses, lifestyle, arts, climate, culture, and more, for decades. The same is true for organizations all along the nonprofit media route — inconsistent soft funding, uncertain government funding or declining...
On his first day in office, President Biden immediately began to roll back many Trump administration policies that had restricted immigration and targeted the approximately 10.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. That included issuing a 100-day moratorium on most deportations, which was immediately challenged in court, and revoking Trump’s Executive Order No. 13768...
By Reva Dhingra, Mitchell Killborn, Olivia Woldemikael, Washington Post |
