The line from America’s earliest empire in the Philippines to Japan, Korean, Vietnam and anti-Asian violence at home is straight, clear, and written in blood.
It is important to identify Powell and those like her as political prisoners—doing so emphasizes how the system incarcerates individuals who speak. #obituary;womensrights #prisonerrights #racism
On March 16, 2021, eight people were killed in the Atlanta-area shootings, six of them Asian women. Naming them all seems important: Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong.
Anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States remain high. According to AAPI Data, one in six Asian American adults experienced a hate crime or incident in 2021, and just three months into 2022 - more than one in 12.KBIA’s Moy Zhong brings us this reflection, which takes a look at the community response to last year's Atlanta spa shootings - both then and now.You can read the Vox magazine story, "Columbia's Asian American community reflects on the grief and fear caused by anti-Asian violence" - here.
As the list of Asians being assaulted and murdered grows, there is only so much grainy security camera footage I can take in, writes Anri Wheeler, reflecting on a year since six Asian women were murdered in Atlanta.