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People across the country gathered on Saturday for vigils and protests to fight the surging violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, following last week’s fatal shootings at Atlanta-based spas. The incident left eight people dead, six of whom were women of Asian descent. The Wall Street Journal reports that hundreds of demonstrators met near […]
A Georgia official is facing mounting backlash over his alleged anti-Asian Facebook posts. Jay Baker of Georgia’s Cherokee County Sheriff’s office has been accused of promoting racist, xenophobic graphic tees that read: “COVID-19 imported virus from CHY-NA.” The posts featured several close-up images of the shirt designs as well as the print shop where they could be […]
Shootings at three different massage parlors in the Atlanta, Georgia area left eight people dead on Tuesday night, marking the sixth mass shooting in the U.S. this year. As of Wednesday morning, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms had confirmed her office was in close contact with both the White House and the Atlanta Police Department, the […]
Gunplay has addressed widely criticized footage in which he’s seen hurling a number of deeply offensive comments and anti-Asian slurs at someone on Instagram Live. In the footage in question, recently shared by WorldStarHipHop but circulating since at least a month ago, the Maybach Music Group-affiliated artist is seen calling someone on his Live a “g**k […]
About a week after the coronavirus was declared a global pandemic, hip-hop duo Year of the Ox released a powerful video for “Viral”—a track that addressed the rise in anti-Asian crimes linked to the health crisis. The 2020 visual includes viral footage of various attacks on Asian Americans at a time when political figures began using xenophobic rhetoric while […]
Jeremy Lin is speaking up about the rise in Asian hate crimes, which have spiked following the COVID-19 pandemic. The Santa Cruz Warriors guard took to Instagram to further discuss the subject, after having appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area’s segment, Race in America: A Candid Conversation. He also suggested he’s been called names during games. […]
POV is a recurring first-person column wherein Complex employees have the opportunity to express their unique perspectives on an array of topics. In this column, Shirley Lim (Executive Assistant/Social Media Coordinator with First We Feast) addresses the controversy surrounding The Mahjong Line. The Mahjong Line, a Dallas-based company owned by three white women, began its “About […]
Violent hate crimes against Asian Americans are on the rise in the U.S. and have been for quite some time now. Back in March of 2020, a New York Times piece—featuring interviews with nearly two dozen people—took a hard look at the hate many Chinese Americans were facing while then-president Donald J. Trump repeatedly insisted on […]
A man’s business is now in jeopardy after he was filmed launching a racist tirade against a woman. Over the weekend, YouTube user YamaBread CreamPan shared cellphone footage of the incident, which reportedly went down in a Southern California parking lot. The video shows a man sitting in the driver’s seat of a car as he verbally attacks the […]
A two-year investigation conducted by the Department of Justice finds Yale University’s undergraduate admissions process has been “illegally discriminating” against Asian and white applicants, AP reports. “Yale grants substantial, and often determinative, preferences based on race to certain racially-favored applicants and relatively and significantly disfavors other applicants because of their race,” Civil Rights Division official Eric Dreiband wrote in the letter to […]
