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If you're like most of America you've diligently (or hopefully) worn your mask, social distanced, maybe went to the liquor store a few too many times, and most likely--watched a TikTok video. Chances are, you also probably saw one with Vietnamese American Michael Le in it. Also known as "Justmaiko",...

A man suspected of killing at least 4 women on Long Island 10 years ago has been arrested by members of the Gilgo Beach Task Force, reports CBS News. Rex Heuermann of Massapequa, Long Island is under arrest for the murder of 3 women. He faces three counts of first-degree...

The #JusticeForChristianHall rally and news conference Sunday drew a modest crowd in Lower Manhattan calling for justice in the death of 19-year- old Christian Hall. Photo essay by Shirley Ng, AsAmNews Staff Writer Christian Hall was a Chinese American man having with a mental health crisis following a break-up. Pennsylvania State...

Ruth Asawa at Face Mask Wall. Courtesy: Stanford University Cantor Arts Center By Corrie Martin Stanford Professor Marci Kwon champions artists and art of Asian America with Cantor Arts Center Marci Kwon, assistant professor of art and art history, recalls making an electrifying discovery one afternoon in the special collections of...

By The Berkeley Law Asian American Law Journal, Berkeley Law Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and Berkeley Law South Asian Law Students Association Since the conclusion of World War II, Asian Americans have been used as a racial wedge between White Americans and other minority groups. One of the...

By Jana Monji If you're at all uneasy with the man in the White House, you might wonder if the US will be all right. White nationalists and separatists have become bolder and been reappraised because there are good people on both sides. To some that might seem as if...

By Sudip Bhattacharya AsAmNews Staff Writer Last Friday, I took a trip to Ferguson, Missouri. I plan to incorporate what happened there into my research and activism. I didn't know what to expect, since I am an outsider and one with many privileges. Although as a journalist I've lived and worked...

Cesar Conde, according to Chicago Artists Resource, is a Filipino American social activist artist and contemporary painter based in Chicago, who uses his paint and brush as powerful tools for sparking critical conversations on social justice and social change. He studied at Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy,...

  A group of Asian American and Pacific Islander artists are converging on Ferguson, MO to build on similarities between the AAPI and African American communities, reports News One.   The campaign between Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), with Hands Up United is a reaction to the police shooting death of...

Peter Liang is appearing in court this morning for the death of Akai Gurley in New York (Photo by Shirley N Lew). A trial date is expected to be scheduled in the case during today's court appearance. Asian Americans opposed to the indictment say he is being scapegoated . They...

By Jason Fong Peter Liang, a rookie NYPD officer, fired the bullet that killed unarmed Akai Gurley in the Louis Pink Houses in Brooklyn on November 20, 2014. No one disputes this. Not Peter Liang. Not his partner. Shockingly, there are some Chinese and Chinese Americans who feel that Liang should...

Story & Photos by Shirley N Lew AsAmNews New York Correspondent Demonstrators took to the streets in New York City to protest the prosecution of NYPD Officer Peter Liang. Many Asian American groups with signs and banners in English and Chinese shouted, “Justice for Peter Liang,” as they marched from Brooklyn,...

By David Shih As a Chinese American, I know that my racial identity occupies a space in the cultural imagination somewhere between white and black. I know that White supremacy often works in my favor to give me privilege and the benefit of the doubt. I know that the world...

A vocal group from leaders from the Chinese American community plans to hold several rallies across the country in support of Peter Liang, the New York City Police Officer indicted in the shooting death of Akai Gurley (photo by Tina Leggio). Gurley was killed in a darkened stairwell by...

The indictment of New York Police Officer Peter Liang for manslaughter and negligent homicide in the death of Akai Gurley is dividing the Asian American community (Photo by Lauren Giaccone). The China Daily reports that some think Liang is a scapegoat due to ongoing tensions after the fatal police shootings...

New York rookie police officer Peter Liang has been indicted by a grand jury in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Brooklyn man in an unlit stairwell, reports the Daily News (photo by Jamie NYC) Liang faces 15 years in prison for second degree manslaughter of Akai Gurley, 28. The...

By now you likely have heard about the murders of New York Police Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. The men were shot at point blank range while sitting in their patrol cars. The New York Times reports gunman Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot the officers in the head and upper body and...

Asian American students at the University of Illinois gathered to discuss the recent grand jury decision in the death of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, reports the Daily Illini. Organizers wanted to create a space where other students could gather to discuss the issues brought out by the decisions not...

New federal guidelines expected to be released next week will do nothing to halt racial profiling of South Asian Americans and others at the nation's airports. The Washington Post reports that profiling will still be allowed by Homeland Security agents during airport screenings and at the borders. The issue has been...

New York City Councilwoman Margaret Chin is condemning the Grand Jury decision not to indict the white police officer who put Eric Garner in the chokehold that caused his death. The decision less than two weeks after a Grand Jury in Ferguson made the same decision in the death of...