The woman backed up her belief Asian hate doesn't exist based on the fact she didn't "see the Asian community out there protesting over Asian hate"—something @charleschoiboy quickly corrected her on. A recent report by AAPI Data revealed more than two million Asians and Pacific Islanders found themselves met with harassment, discrimination or even violence...
Beth Fukumoto, who served as the Republican leader in the Hawaii State Legislature from 2014 to 2017, said she’d seen some earnest GOP efforts to reach out to Asian American voters before Trump landed the party’s presidential nomination. Both state and national Republican leaders were piqued by the rapid growth of the AAPI electorate, Fukumoto...
AAPI adults overwhelmingly said it was very or somewhat important for politicians in office to have the same values — 87 percent compared with the 30 percent who wanted politicians to look like them and the 43 percent who wanted politicians from similar backgrounds. Along those lines, AAPI adults said they felt the most represented...
“Far from being the enemy, Asian Americans have actually been on the front lines, with many Asian American health care workers involved in caring for their fellow Texans,” Xie said in a prepared statement. “I am so sad that we are the ones to be blamed for the cause of COVID-19. We ask that the...
Irrespective of which part of the world you hail from, Indian ethnic wear is sure to catch your attention. The design, embroidery, and weaving techniques that are a part of a traditional ensemble don’t just grab eyeballs, but also represent Indian traditions and culture. Each Indian ethnic wear brings its own history, charm, characteristics, and...
Vice President Kamala Harris’ Thursday meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been described as ‘history making’ and ‘coming-of-age’ moment for Indian diaspora by the Los Angles Times. She would be “making history as the highest-ranking Indian American to welcome the leader of a country that is becoming one of America’s most important allies,”...
Harris is scheduled to meet Modi on Thursday, making history as the highest-ranking Indian-American to welcome the leader of a country that is becoming one of America’s most important allies, The Los Angeles Times newspaper said. This would be her first meeting with Modi, 71, whose government has not only championed the cause of the...
US Vice President Kamala Harris meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the White House on Thursday afternoon is a “coming of age” moment for the Indian diaspora, a prominent US newspaper in her home state has said on the eve of the historic meeting between the two leaders. Harris, 56, is the first-ever Indian American...
Harris and Modi will discuss regional issues, including democracy, human rights, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and security, according to a senior administration official who would brief reporters only on the condition of anonymity. The two spoke by phone over the summer as India suffered one of the world’s deadliest waves of COVID-19, and Harris...
The $156.5 million AAPI Equity Budget bill funds actions to end the surge in anti-AAPI hate and violence over the past year. Below is a summary of where the state funds go: $110 million – a majority of the funding – will go to community organizations that are providing vital victim services and prevention $10...
The attention each candidate is paying to Asian Americans communities reflects their growing clout in California politics. In 2003, when the state had its last recall election, Asian Americans made up just 7% of California’s electorate. Now, the population makes up 17% of California’s electorate. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders tend to vote Democratic and...
When voters ratified the statewide recall in October 1911, California led the nation in innovative governance. Until then, direct democracy mechanisms had mostly been reserved for local governments, such as New England town halls. The Progressive Party, with Gov. Hiram Johnson of California as its most outspoken champion, proposed the recall as a means for...
By Henry Brady and Karthick Ramakrishnan, LA Times |
Claims of election fraud were a staple in right-wing media during and after the 2020 presidential election. Fox News had to air coverage in February debunking fraudulent claims by the network's hosts after a legal threat from voting technology company Smartmatic. Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy at UC Riverside, said this emerging pattern...
Blas Pedral, a second-year law student at UC Berkeley, is a first-generation college student who received a bachelor’s degree with honors in global studies from UC Santa Barbara and a master’s degree in higher education and administration from the University of Vermont. She brings perspective not only as a student but as a former staff...
People who are primed to think about the COVID-19 pandemic are more likely to discriminate against Asian and Latino Americans, a new study suggests. The findings, described this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, highlight yet another way that the pandemic has ramped up discrimination against racial and ethnic minority groups...
There’s a Chinese proverb that says 一个可以吞下侮辱的人是一个男人 or “One who can swallow an insult is a man.” In the light of the East Asian hate crimes this past year, this phrase represents the silence and backlash that Asian Americans have taken. Inny Kim, a long-term sub for social science at Trinity Prep, was standing in...
Across the country, hate crimes have risen to their highest level in more than a decade, according to an FBI report released last November. It also found hate-motivated killings increased. Hate crimes against Asian Americans have spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they have been scapegoated for the coronavirus based on their race, that Associated...
An ambitious new initiative, called California 100, is seeking to transform the future of the state for the next century. The universities and institutions that make up California 100, will provide research and test out projects around 13 issue areas and the intersections between them. For example, in order to mitigate climate change, they will...
The Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities continue to grow steadily, the 2020 census data showed. The data, released Thursday, revealed almost 20 million people identified as "Asian," and another 4 million checked boxes as "Asian" combined with another race group, for a total of 7.2 percent of the population. Another 0.5 percent...
Communities of color, particularly Latino and Asian American communities, grew in numbers over the last decade, according to race and ethnicity data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday, Aug. 12. Southern California counties by and large reflected the national and state trends when it came to race, with big increases in multiracial populations...
