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A Colorado man was arrested on Monday after he was recorded on TikTok making racist and homophobic remarks at an Asian man and woman inside an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in California. According to CBS News, Arine Kim and Elliot Ha were recording themselves as they tried items off In-N-Out Burger’s secret menu on Christmas Eve. Kim and Ha were approached by […]
Two Asian legends are getting ready to ball for a cause. Simu Liu is linking up with the Canadian Chinese Youth Athletic Association (CCYAA) to host a celebrity basketball game in Toronto, and ex-Raptor Jeremy Lin is the first to join the roster. The event will feature over 20 celebrities, athletes, and “personalities from the North American Asian community,” with […]
A judge ruled that a Virginia school system discriminated against Asian Americans after it revamped its admissions process at a prestigious public school. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton found that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology—a competitive school which ranks as one of the best public schools in the country—“infected” admissions changes with “talk of racial […]
An Asian woman died after being pushed in front of a subway train by a man in New York City’s Times Square station on Saturday. Michelle Alyssa Go was waiting for the train at around 9:30 a.m. when the incident happened, BuzzFeed News reports. The man who allegedly pushed her, 61-year-old Simon Martial, took off, […]
A Chinese immigrant who was brutally attacked in April in New York City has died of the injuries he sustained, according to ABC News. Yao Pan Ma, 61, died on Dec. 31—eight months after he was attacked while collecting cans in Harlem, police share. The case is now beeing deemed a homicide after 49-year-old Jarrod Powell […]
Saweetie has teamed up with global esports organization and gaming collective Gen.G to uplift Asian American entrepreneurs. The rapper will host a handful of educational workshops that touch on gaming, cooking, music, lifestyle, and beauty. The series will also support her nonprofit Icy Baby Foundation, which aims to inspire Black, brown, and underserved young people […]
Juxtaposed next to dance videos and trends fuelled by narcissism that saturate the short-form video platform, thousands of TikTok users came across Linda Dong, better known as @yoleendadong, on their For You page for the first time in August 2020. Commencing her videos with a simple (and now iconic) greeting—“Hello, my friend!”—followed by a facetiously blunt criticism […]
A pair of Los Angeles radio hosts landed in hot water this week after performing a racially insensitive skit on air. KFI-AM radio host Tim Conway Jr. and his executive producer, Sheron Bellio, have been suspended a week without pay for an anti-Asian skit they performed on May 3, according to Deadline. In the five-minute skit, […]
Chinatown Market has not abandoned its plan to change its brand name. Nearly two months ago, the Los Angeles-based imprint announced it would ditch its original name in wake of the targeted attacks against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. CTM acknowledged the growing calls for the change, and admitted it should’ve made the move much sooner. […]
Reports of Anti-Asian hate incidents surged from 3,795 to 6,603 in March of this year, according to new data from Stop AAPI Hate. This increase could be due to a number of factors, experts say, including both increased awarenes around the issue and the U.S. lifting COVID restrictions. “What we’ve always said is that racism could have […]
