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Asian Americans

Actors Daniel Dae Kim, Daniel Wu, Gemma Chan and Chris Pang want the public, authorities and the media to pay more attention to anti-Asian attacks related to COVID-19.
In the 2020 presidential election, the California senator leaned into the intersection of her identities and just made history.
Asian American health care workers on the coronavirus front line say they're "revered, but also paradoxically feared.”
Gary Locke's inclusion in the ad indirectly reinforces an insidious pattern of Asian Americans being asked to prove they’re American and being seen as “other.”
The teenage suspect reportedly said he thought the family was Chinese and spreading the coronavirus.
It's not until we face unconscious bias within the workplace and the rise and return of xenophobia from the the coronavirus outbreak that we realise, no matter how hard we try to fit in, we'll always be different in the eyes of many.
The coronavirus pandemic is fuelling racism that often unfolds right in front of bystanders.
After months of properly referring to it, the president is now insisting on calling COVID-19 the "Chinese virus."
Director Jon M. Chu responded on social media, claiming those words would never “come of my mouth.”