Asian Americans

Hate crimes and incidents targeting Asian Americans have spiked with the spread of COVID. Community advocates say cases are only expected to rise.

Morgan Hurd may not be competing in the Tokyo Olympics this year, but she’s no less committed to using her voice to speak out against the rising number of violent attacks in the AAPI community.

The new segment features a Filipino American girl, who was teased because of the shape of her eyes, learning to love her features.

There has been another violent attack against an Asian American woman, this time in Culver City. Angie Crouch reports for NBC4 News at 8 p.m. on June 17, 2021.

Cesar Echano was walking with his wife at a park when he was attacked and verbally abused. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, June 10, 2021.

A 70-year-old Cerritos man pleads with the community to stop Asian hate after being attacked while going on a morning stroll with his wife at the park on Saturday.

Prominent attacks on Asian Americans during the pandemic, along with the Atlanta massage business shooting that left six Asian women dead, have spurred expanded conversations about Asian American identity and history

The new class explores how media coverage or lack thereof has played a role in the racism that Asian Americans face. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, May 28, 2021.

Detained aboard steamers in the San Francisco Bay for months, Wong Kim Ark pursued his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, setting the precedent for birthright citizenship

A majority of Americans across racial and ethnic groups believe discrimination has worsened in the last year against Asian Americans, who became the target of attacks after being unfairly blamed for the coronavirus pandemic

The income gap within the Asian American community is growing at a faster rate than any other ethnic group. Here’s why, and what’s being done about it.

Throughout the month of May, NBC Owned Television Stations is profiling members of the AAPI community as part of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Ellison Shoji Onizuka was not only the first Japanese-American astronaut, the first Asian-American and first Buddhist to travel in space — he was the first Hawaiian too, with Kona coffee to prove it. Onizuka grew…

The attacks are often verbal, though some turn violent, and even deadly. In several cases, the Asian American victims are told to go back to their own country, even when their country is the United States. Hetty Chang reports for NBC4 News.

According to advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate, between March of 2020 and February 2021, there have been nearly 3,800 hate incidents nationwide. A Cal State University San Bernardino report found that such hate crimes surged nearly 170% in the last year.

David Tran’s sriracha faces competition, not the least of which is a version of the chili sauce that a Thai company says is the original, first made in Si Racha, Thailand, 80 years ago.

The rise in anti-Asian hate crimes has worsened the already devastating toll the pandemic has taken on the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities.

At a time when few women became pilots, the Federal Aviation Administration credits Hazel Ying Lee as the first Chinese-American woman to fly for the military, blazing her own trail

The pandemic has brought a twofold blow to Asian-American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) small business owners.

In the wake of the surge in attacks against Asian Americans, a new initiative is being launched to give people the tools to step in and intervene. It does not have to be direct intervention; indirect intervention can also de-escalate a situation. Asian Americans Advancing Justice, a civil rights organization out of Los Angeles, is launching the first-ever bystander intervention…

In the past two weeks, the nonprofit Asians in America has raised more than $13,000 online to supply 3,500 personal safety alarms to seniors in New York City