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'We're not taught to speak out': Asian Americans find their voice amid rise in hate


‘We’re not taught to speak out’: Asian Americans find their voice amid rise in hate
Lauren Aratani
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Photograph: Damian Dovarganes/AP
Natty Jumreornvong was outside Mount Sinai hospital on the Upper East Side of New York around 11am one morning in February when a man approached her.
“Chinese virus,” he spat out. She told him she was a medical student and tried to walk away, but he followed her, kicked her knee and dragged her across the ground. She called out for help, but nobody came to her assistance.
The incident was just the latest and most severe case of anti-Asian hate Jumreornvong has seen over the last year. Last April, a woman with a child spat on her and called her racial slurs. Patients have called her “Kung Flu”, and she’s seen Asian patients with bruises who say someone came and hit them but would not say who, potentially out of shame. ....

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Stop Black Deaths in Custody rallies: thousands march in Australian capital cities


Stop Black Deaths in Custody rallies: thousands march in Australian capital cities
Ben Smee
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Protesters in Sydney rally to mark a national day of action against Aboriginal deaths in police custody. Photograph: Jaimi Joy/Reuters
Rallies have begun in cities across Australia to protest against ongoing Indigenous deaths in custody and mark 30 years since the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody handed down its final report.
About 1,000 people attended the first rally in Brisbane’s King George Square on Saturday morning. Large crowds had also gathered in Sydney and Melbourne by early on Saturday afternoon. ....

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