Asian Americans

Hate crimes against Asian Americans continue to be a rampant problem across the country. But advocates say the problem is still not getting the attention it deserves. NBCLX has interviewed activists and experts about why this wave of crime still remains an overlooked issue — and what can be done to stop it.

“I was terrified for my life, as you can see the physical injuries on my face,” Kim said. “And I didn’t know what to think of it. It was all just a blur…I was just trying to defend my life.”

A 52-year-old Asian American woman was attacked outside a New York City bakery on Tuesday in what appears to be the latest in a disturbing trend of violence against Asian Americans since the beginning of the pandemic, the victim’s family says.

Asian American lawmakers, along with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats, denounced on Friday a rise in hate incidents targeting members of the Asian community across the country and called for stronger action — both by Congress and the Biden administration.

Racist incidents and attacks on members of the Asian community in public have, in part, persuaded some families not to send their children back to in-person schooling, administrators say

While the pandemic’s long-lasting impact has affected public health and the economy, the Asian-American community has also experienced the fallout of COVID-19 – being unfairly blamed for the pandemic and becoming the target of discrimination and violence.

From the streets of San Francisco to New York’s iconic Chinatown district there’s been a dramatic surge in the reported cases of hate crimes directed against members of the Asian American community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A recent wave of attacks against older Asians has stoked fear in some big city Chinatowns, NBC News reports. A 84-year-old Thai American, Vicha Ratanapakdee, was pushed to the ground by a 19-year-old assailant and died of his injuries a few days later. A 64-year-old woman was attacked and robbed in San Jose, California. A 70-year-old woman was shoved and...

Bigotry toward Asian Americans and Asian food has spread steadily alongside the coronavirus in the United States. Distorted information about the virus that first appeared in China has led to a revival of century-old tropes about Asian food being dirty.

While Asian Americans as a whole have trended left in recent elections, research shows that some populations have shifted toward the right, specifically Vietnamese Americans and, to a lesser extent, Indian Americans, because of what experts say is a coalescence of cultural and historical baggage.

United Nations experts issued a mandate expressing “serious concern” regarding heightened racist and xenophobic attacks against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic. In the document made public this week, experts appointed by the Human Rights Council wrote that violence and attacks against people of Asian descent have reached an “alarming level” since the start of the outbreak. They also wrote that the...

The House voted Thursday to condemn racism against Asian Americans tied to the coronavirus outbreak, approving a Democratic resolution on a mostly party-line vote. Republicans called the legislation an election-year effort to criticize President Donald Trump and “woke culture on steroids.”

Actor Jun Yu, who appears as the character Cricket in the live-action version of “Mulan,” joined LX News to talk about his “life-changing” experience filming Disney’s remake of the iconic film.

Kamala Harris paid homage to her South Asian American heritage at this week’s Democratic National Convention. South Asian performer and activist Yalini Dream believes that recognition has the potential to elicit real change.

After Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate this week, there was a small segment that questioned her biracial identity. Culture critic Nadra Nittle sets the record straight.

Red Circle Ice Cream in Houston, Texas, was known for its bubble waffles and churros before it became the subject of coronavirus-related rumors. Owner Nickey Ngo turned to social media to discuss the fear that the Asian American community felt at the onset of the pandemic due to rumors circulating in Chinatown.

Cynthia Choi of Chinese for Affirmative Action breaks down the increasing number of violent incidents directed at Asian Americans in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic and how President Trump’s rhetoric has fueled the violence.

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The arrest of an Asian American police officer in George Floyd’s death has highlighted that community’s complicated and contradictory relationship with white power structures, said Kabzuag Vaj, founder of the Wisconsin-based advocacy group Freedom Inc.

A woman in the San Francisco Bay Area has been arrested on suspicion of posting handwritten messages at several homes, targeting Asian Americans and suggesting that those not native to the United States should leave the country immediately