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Fighting back against anti-Asian hate
April 28, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
After being a victim of what she described as an anti-Asian verbal incident in August 2020 in Los Angeles that went viral online, Hong Lee decided to take action for […] READ MORE
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Asian Americans mark Lunar New Year amid ongoing hate crimes
February 17, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
For two years now, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the country have endured racist verbal, physical and sometimes deadly attacks fueled by the coronavirus pandemic. With the start of […] READ MORE
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The ‘revolutionary Aunties’
January 1, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice Edited by Mai-Linh K. Hong, Chrissy Yee Lau and Preeti Sharma (Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, […] READ MORE
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Activists campaign to protect seniors from eviction
September 2, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — Save Our Seniors Network, a community activist group dedicated to protecting the welfare of the Nikkei residents of nursing facilities and retirement homes, campaigned to stop the […] READ MORE
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Report: Hate crime laws lack uniformity across the U.S.
August 5, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
NEW YORK — More than half a century since they were modernized, hate crime laws in the U.S. are inconsistent and provide incomplete methods for addressing bias-motivated violence, according to […] READ MORE
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Man pleads guilty to 4 Asian spa killings, sentenced to life
August 5, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
CANTON, Ga. — A man accused of killing eight people, mostly women of Asian descent, at Atlanta-area massage businesses pleaded guilty to murder July 27 in four of the killings […] READ MORE
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Asian Americans cheer passage of Calif.’s $156 million fund to combat AAPI racism
July 22, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Asian Americans cheered the July 12 passage of California’s API Equity Budget, a three-year $156 million initiative, which seeks to equip the AAPI community with resources to combat hate crimes. […] READ MORE
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Calif. hate crime up 31% in 2020, led by anti-Black bias
July 8, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hate crime in California surged 31% in 2020, fueled mainly by a big jump in crimes targeting Black people during a year that saw the worst racial […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Reuniting and continuing the fight
June 24, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
As we slowly come out from the pandemic lockdown, I’m sure that everybody is heaving a big sigh of relief and doing things that were forbidden for so long. And […] READ MORE
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While COVID closes many Little Tokyo businesses, some are surviving
May 27, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — Little Tokyo businesses faced many challenges the past year as COVID-19 forced a number of small establishments to close, but some shops like Mitsuru Sushi & Grill […] READ MORE
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