Last weekend, Lucy Yu officially opened her bookstore in Chinatown, NYC "Yu and Me Books." Yu's shop is one of the first Asian American women-owned shops.
This article has been translated to Chinese. Read the simplified version (简体中文版).
Hundreds attended a multicultural and multiracial rally held in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza during the first Lunar New Year weekend on Sunday, Feb. 14. The event, organized in the effort to decry a recent high-profile string of violent attacks on Asian and Pacific Islander people, featured speakers with deep roots in San Francisco.
Sasanna Yee, left
Before leading the crowd in a Qi Gong exercise to help transform pain and anger into “compassionate power,” Sasanna Yee of Communities as One, a S.F.-based nonprofit building cross-cultural partnerships, shared a story of loss involving her own grandmother, Yik Oi Huang, who left home one day in January 2019, and did not return. Yee found her grandma at a nearby playground, where she had been brutally attacked and left for dead. “I’m here to remind folks to remember her not as a victim,” said Yee, who asked the crowd to sa