From the historic coram nobis cases to the state task force to study Black reparations, attorney Donald K. Tamaki has been at the heart of landmark social justice issues for the past 40 years. The senior counsel at Minami Tamaki LLP sat down with the Nichi Bei News to discuss his current role as the […]
WHO director in Asia accused of racism, abuse put on leave
September 1, 2022 by Leave a Comment
LONDON — The World Health Organization’s top director in the Western Pacific, Dr. Takeshi Kasai, has been indefinitely removed from his post, according to internal correspondence obtained by The Associated Press. Kasai’s removal comes months after an AP investigation revealed that dozens of staffers accused him of racist, abusive and unethical behavior that undermined the […]
Anti-Black, gay, Asian bias fuel California hate crime surge
July 7, 2022 by Leave a Comment
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hate crimes driven by homophobia and racism resulted in a 33% surge in reported incidents in California last year, following a similar spike in hate-driven attacks the year prior and confirming what officials have been hearing anecdotally since the pandemic began, the state’s attorney general said June 28. Attorney General Rob […]
American of Japanese descent advances racial equity from White House
February 17, 2022 by Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON — Erika Moritsugu, 49, is among the many Asian Americans in the United States who have experienced hate crimes since the coronavirus pandemic began two years ago. She was waiting at a bus stop with her son after school when a man screamed threatening racist abuse and spat at her. Since the incident in […]
Hercules: How anti-Asian racism proved deadly at the 19th century dynamite plant
January 20, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Today’s ultra-heated political rhetoric, particularly regarding the coronavirus pandemic, has resulted in increasingly overt expressions of racism, and outright physical violence, toward the Bay Area’s Asian American community in the last two years. While the recent increase in these attacks has been making headlines, a more insidious form of anti-Asian prejudice has been embedded in […]
Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers
January 6, 2022 by Leave a Comment
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania had been installing historical markers for more than a century when the racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 brought a fresh round of questions from the public about just whose stories were being told on the state’s roadsides — and the language used to tell them. The increased scrutiny […]
2021 Notebook: Redrawing the conversation about race
January 6, 2022 by Leave a Comment
After 2020 became a year of racial reckoning with the public killing of George Floyd and the protests of injustices against Black people, 2021 offered what can best be described as a follow-up year — a continuation of some familiar story threads with other new ones emerging. Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who killed […]
Nikkei Q: The CRT Culture Wars
January 1, 2022 by Leave a Comment
As summer rolled into fall I had thought the worst of the culture wars on Critical Race Theory (CRT) was over, or that at least it would never make it over the eastern border of California. But I was wrong. In mid-November Asian American leaders demanded that the vice mayor of Cupertino Liang Chao issue […]
AG Bonta meets with city leaders for 1st of several statewide discussions to prevent hate crimes
September 16, 2021 by Leave a Comment
California Attorney General Rob Bonta met with San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Police Chief Bill Scott, and community leaders on Sept. 9 in the city’s Visitacion Valley to have a discussion on hate crimes. The event was the first in a series of roundtable discussions being held by Bonta with leaders throughout the state, focusing […]
S.F. initiative that uses art to combat AAPI hate receives $1 mil. in state funding
September 2, 2021 by Leave a Comment
California Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, on Aug. 23 announced $1 million in state funding for an initiative that aims to raise awareness about racism against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. The funding, provided through a state budget grant, will support the ‘We the Future’ initiative, which works to empower AAPI communities and […]
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