Asian Americans

Asian American families are wrestling with whether to send their children back to classrooms as high schools, middle schools and elementary schools across the country widely reopen amid rising anti-Asian harassment.

Asian and Black activists are talking solidarity, but they first need to know their common history and acknowledge tensions that have long existed.

The Senate has opened debate on legislation confronting the rise of potential hate crimes against Asian Americans

U.S. Bank delivered 3,000 safety kits to its branch in San Francisco’s Chinatown to help keep customers safe after the recent increase of violence against Asian Americans.

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.”

Yelp is rolling out a new tool that makes it easier for people to find and support Asian-owned businesses during a time of a rise in attacks against Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S.

Racism against Asian Americans is nothing new to those who have experienced it. But a recent rise in violent crimes against them has ignited deep-rooted fears and drawn national attention. Now, members of the Asian-American community and their allies are calling for people to educate themselves and end the hate.

Asian women are depicted as either an “object for the taking” or a scheming “temptress,” said one expert.

The vicious assault of a 65-year-old woman while walking to church this week near New York City’s Times Square has heightened already palpable levels of outrage over anti-Asian attacks that escalated with the pandemic

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...

Lee Wong, chairman of the West Chester, Ohio, Township Board of Trustees, condemned anti-Asian violence during an unscripted moment that has gone viral.

A Chicago woman said her father was attacked while walking in his own neighborhood, and as a result, she’s warning others to be vigilant, fearing her dad was targeted because he is Asian.

Friday, March 26 is the National Day of Action and Healing to Stop Asian Hate.

Jane Park said that before last week, she hadn’t addressed mass shootings with her kids, Bennett, 7, and Ruby, 5.

In the aftermath of a mass shooting that killed six Asian women in the Atlanta area, the Black and Asian communities are putting aside historical tensions to come together in common cause to fight white supremacy and violence. NBCLX storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo attended a New York City rally to talk to protesters from both communities about why solidarity is so...

Jane Park said that before last week, she hadn’t addressed mass shootings with her kids, Bennett, 7, and Ruby, 5. “It really does scare me,” the Seattle mom told TODAY Parents. “And Bennett, my 7-year-old, is in first grade now. I worked as a local new reporter and I remember the Sandy Hook shootings, so he’s at the age of those children.”...

To many, it seems like a simple question: “Where are you from?” But when that query is posed to someone who is Asian American, it shows an unconscious bias. Writer Kurt Bardella joined LX News to explain why it’s time to stop this form of “passive racism.”

Two Democratic senators have backed off their vow to withhold support for President Joe Biden’s nominees for administration posts until the White House better promotes diversity

Filipino American comedian Jo Koy remembers a time when Asian people didn’t talk about how racism affected them. Koy tells LX News’ Jobeth Devera about his memoir “Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo,” which details his upbringing, dealing with family issues and racism on the journey to selling out stadiums.

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...