Money will support new COVID-recovery research and work to combat hate incidents
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The funding for the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Stop AAPI Hate was championed by members of the Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus. Melany De La Cruz-Viesca and Jessica Wolf |
February 24, 2021
The UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Stop AAPI Hate coalition have received $1.4 million in funding from California to support community programs and ongoing research that address the impact of COVID-19 on Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, including new research and analysis into hate incidents.
The funds also will support the Stop Asian American Pacific Islander Hate website and the COVID-19 Multilingual Resources website, which was developed by faculty from the Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Feb 12, 2021
London – It began with suspicious looks on the street. Then visits by shoppers and diners dwindled. Now, a year since the coronavirus spread globally, many small business owners in Chinatowns around the world are shutting up shop.
On the eve of Lunar New Year traditionally her busiest trading season, Joanne Kwong was planning to close down Pearl River Mart’s flagship store in New York’s Chinatown half a century since it was established by her Taiwanese in-laws.
“The revenue isn’t matching all of the costs we have to pay for and that have been piling up over the last 13 months,” Kwong said.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It began with suspicious looks on the street. Then visits by shoppers and diners dwindled. Now, a year since the coronavirus spread globally, many small business owners in Chinatowns around the world are shutting up shop.
On the eve of Lunar New Year - traditionally her busiest trading season, Joanne Kwong is planning to close down Pearl River Mart’s flagship store in New York’s Chinatown half a century since it was established by her Taiwanese in-laws.
“The revenue isn’t matching all of the costs we have to pay for and that have been piling up over the last 13 months,” Kwong said.
January 15, 2021
By mid-March, the World Health Organization had declared COVID-19 a pandemic, UCLA classes had moved online and university employees in nonessential roles were working remotely. Soon after, on April 1, the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, or CNK, based at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, issued its first research report about the health crisis.
By late September, researchers affiliated with CNK had released more than a dozen COVID-19–related studies on their own or in partnership with other centers at UCLA and elsewhere in academia. Roughly, that works out to an astounding pace of one new study every two weeks.