Hate Crimes

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.”

The White House announced Tuesday new initiatives to address anti-Asian violence amid fresh attention to the rise of attacks against Asian Americans after a shooting earlier this month in Atlanta left six women of Asian descent dead. President Joe Biden will reinstate and expand the scope of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, the White House said. The Department of Health...

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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...

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.

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...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for a halt to all violence against Asians and people of Asian descent

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.

This week’s deadly spa shootings and Congressional hearing have put a new focus on a recent rise in anti-Asian hate crimes.

The surge in hate incidents against Asian Americans during the pandemic has taken a very personal toll on individuals and families across the country. NBC News legal contributor Katie S. Phang and LX News host Jobeth Devera share their personal stories related to the increase in racism and make a case for why it is everyone’s responsibility to fight hate....

What advocates say you can do to support the Asian American community and take action to help stop anti-Asian racism, acts of violence and hate crimes.

In the wake of Atlanta-area shootings that killed 8 people, including 6 Asian women, police suggested that the crime was motivated by a sex addiction rather than racism. This has sparked outrage among Asian Americans who have experienced a surge in hate incidents over the past year. Karthick Ramakrishnan, chair of the California Commission on APIA Affairs, joined LX News...

Camille Dizon is a Filipino American who lives in Atlanta. She shared with NBCLX the moment she first realized that the coronavirus had made her and her family a target of racism, and the discrimination she has continued to experience.

Asian Americans were already worn down by a year of pandemic-fueled racist attacks when a white gunman was charged with attacking three Atlanta-area massage spas and killing eight people, most of them Asian women.

A Facebook page appearing to belong to a Georgia sheriff’s office spokesman promoted a T-shirt with racist language about China and the coronavirus last year.

Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds gives the latest updates on the killing of eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors.

The deadly attack comes at a time during increasing reports of anti-Asian racism and violence during the pandemic.

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 and what can be done...

New data has revealed the number of anti-Asian hate incidents over the past year is greater than previously reported, and a disproportionate number of attacks have been directed at women, NBC News reports.

Wyoming lawmakers have again decided not to adopt a hate crimes law in the state where gay college student Matthew Shepard was killed more than 20 years ago