April 3, 2021
In the wake of brutal attacks on Asian Americans in New York and Georgia, Massachusetts leaders are pushing to strengthen the state’s hate crime laws.
A bill filed in February to clarify and fortify Massachusetts’ existing law is...
April 3, 2021
Twenty-six governors released a joint statement March 26 on the rise in anti-Asian hate. The statement was signed by 23 Democratic governors, joined by the Republican governors of Maryland and Massachusetts and the governor of the...
April 4, 2021
A proposed Oxnard City Council resolution condemning racism against Asians and Pacific Islanders drew several supportive comments from the public last week, but none as impassioned and painfully personal as those from its own city...
April 3, 2021
An ethnically diverse crowd of more than 100 people gathered at the Merced Civic Center on Saturday afternoon for a unity rally to stand against racism and recent hate crimes against Asian Americans nationwide. …
According to a fact...
April 4, 2021
Steph Curry's shoes sent a message Sunday night. Nineteen days after eight people, including six women of Asian descent, were shot and killed at three spas in the Atlanta area, Curry wore a custom pair of Curry 8s in the Warriors' road...
April 3, 2021
A segment on an Asian American-owned convenience store in North Carolina that was vandalized included mention of the CSUSB Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism’s recent report that hate crimes against Asian Americans increased...
April 2, 2021
New statistics suggest that the region is getting back toward solid footing as the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.
The monthly Purchasing Manager’s Index issued Thursday (April 1) by the Institute of Applied Research at...
April 1, 2021
Janet Koehler-Brooks, a CSUSB alumna, was included in a column by Fontana Mayor Acquanetta Warren about the contributions of women in the community.
Warren wrote that Koehler-Brooks “has served as city treasurer since the death of her...
April 2, 2021
Brian Levin, director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, was interviewed for an article about five organisations with ties to Hindu supremacist and religious groups receiving COVID-19 relief funding amounting to...
April 1, 2021
In the wake of a shooting rampage in Atlanta that left eight dead, including six Asian women, and after a year of hate speech and attacks on Asian people tied to the pandemic, public officials are facing mounting pressure to prevent...
April 2, 2021
From 2019 to 2020, police reports of anti-Asian hate crimes increased by 145% in the country’s 16 largest cities while the total number of reported hate crimes fell by 6%, according to data from the Center for the Study of Hate and...
April 2, 2021
Marisa Pizarro, Def Jam’s senior vice president of A&R, found herself working on ways to support the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community during a time she could’ve never predicted would be incredibly essential.
Pizarr...