On Tuesday June 25, 2013 Community Board 3 in New York's Chinatown/Lower East Side passed a unanimous resolution in support of naming part of Elizabeth Street in Chinatown the "Danny Chen Way" - in honor of Private...
Kay Barrett is a 2009 Campus Pride Hot List artist, 2013 Trans Justice Funding Project Panelist, and 2013 Trans 100 Honoree. Barrett is a poet, performer, and educator, navigating life as a disabled pin@y-amerikan...
Nahla Abdo is an Arab feminist activist, and Professor of Sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She has extensive publications on women, racism, nationalism, and the State in the Middle East, with special...
Artist and academic Ken Gonzales-Day discusses his research and art uncovering the often untold story of lynching in California. His work demonstrates how the violent act of lynching was used as a tool of racial hatred...
On Tuesday June 25, Community Board 3 in New York's Chinatown/Lower East Side passed a unanimous resolution in support of naming part of Elizabeth Street in Chinatown the "Danny Chen Way" - in honor of Private...
The trial of the second officer charged in connection with U.S. Army Private Danny Chen’s hazing death starts today. Many in the Asian American community, including Private Chen’s family, were shocked and dismayed last...
Twenty years ago this week, Lee Junghui, mourning the loss of her only
son during the LA riots, uttered, “It’s not an individual who killed
my son. Something bigger has drastically gone wrong.” After the
acquittal...
Last Saturday, several hundred Indian Americans and human rights activists gathered in New York City to remember the Gujarat Massacre and mark its 10th anniversary. On February 28, 2002, in the state of Gujarat in...
This week marks the 29th anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American beaten to death in Detroit by two unemployed auto workers. The legal case and lenient sentences for his killers galvanized...
On March 7, Surinder Singh and Gurmej Atwal were shot while on their afternoon walk in Elk Grove, California, a suburb of Sacramento. The two retirees each suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Singh, 65, died on the spot...
