Asian Americans

Surveillance video caught a man jumping the security fences at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple on Thursday night, smashing a 12-foot-high glass window with a rock, yanking a pair of metallic lanterns off their concrete bases and lighting two wooden lantern stands on fire, the temple’s head priest told the Los Angeles Times.

Esther Lim decided she had to do something about the rising hate against Asian Americans by creating booklets: “How to Report a Hate Crime.” Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2021.

There’s a growing concern about a recent increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in Southern California, and one woman is helping victims find a voice, so they can report when they’ve been targeted.

“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 Korean American veteran spoke out about the attack. Hetty Chang reported on NBC4 News on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021.

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

Violent attacks on Asian Americans are on the rise. Hetty Chang reported on NBC4 News on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021.

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...

Derek Ma during interview talking about his documentary on Asian Americans contribution to the pandemic in the face of Anti-Asian sentiment

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.