March for Jesus set to begin at JW Smith Elementary on May 22
This Saturday, May 22, Christians and churches from around the area regardless of denomination will unite in Bemidji for a March for Jesus. 8:30 am, May 19, 2021 ×
BEMIDJI This Saturday, May 22, Christians and churches from around the area regardless of denomination will unite in Bemidji for a March for Jesus, in which they will celebrate knowing Jesus beyond church walls and in the streets with praise and prayer.
Participants will gather at JW Smith Elementary School, 1712 America Ave. NW, at 10 a.m. and then proceed across several city blocks to Paul Bunyan Park. There, they will gather along the banks of Lake Bemidji, where a stage will be set up for the day’s remaining activities.
The Pandemic And Racist Attacks Are Devastating America s Chinatowns
The coronavirus pandemic and a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans have significantly impacted the economies and cultural fabric of Chinatowns around the country, and are gravely harming the vitality of some of them, though rallying efforts are underway.
While racism is nothing new for Asian Americans, who have historically been the victims of the racialization of disease in the U.S., the length and intensity of this pandemic has fueled an economic disaster that is increasingly posing an existential threat to Asian American Pacific Islander neighborhoods.
Occurring parallel to a pandemic that has claimed 582,296 lives in the U.S., according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the pandemic itself has disproportionately impacted Asian Americans in San Francisco, with the demographic accounting for 13.7% of the cases but also 52% of the deaths as of M
The conversation is complicated and can be uncomfortable, but Justin Hoover, the executive director of the Chinese Historical Society of America said work needs to be done.
Hollywood s portrayal of AAPI community is formative, research shows
KTVU s Claudine Wong reports on Hollywood s historical misrepresentations of the AAPI community.
What we see on the big screen matters. Sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen says research proves that these images are formative. You can t be what you can t see or it s really hard.
But what we ve seen of Asian Americans in film, has been lacking. It is why Crazy Rich Asians was considered so pivotal.
The movie s director Jon M. Chu says after that movie, people came out of the woodwork and including people in my family. He says many were emotional saying my older brother cried when he saw Nick Young come out of the house in his white suit and he was presented as the most handsome Hollywood leading man that you could as any big movie would.
Gov. Greg Abbott s office has been working quietly with Facebook with the hope that it will soon build a second data center in the state, according to documents provided to The Texas Tribune by the Tech Transparency Project. Credit: Carly May for The Texas Tribune
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Last month, Gov. Greg Abbottblasted the actions of Facebook as âun-American [and] un-Texan,â accusing it and other social media giants of spearheading a âdangerous movement to silence conservative voices.â
âThe First Amendment is under assault by these social media companies, and that will not be tolerated in Texas,â Abbott said.