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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and leaders in San Francisco’s Asian American community held an event in Portsmouth Square on Thursday to highlight recently passed...

Access, it does affect this community greatly. and, you know, some of the numbers that came out recently in the last week that was looked at by aapi data, the aapi voting block has increased in terms of their activity by 25%. thats double or triple some of the other groups. by the way, you know this, tiffany, its because the base, the foundation is so low. we have not been showing up historically for voting. >> well, i think that has changed and its certainly, like you said, aapi pointed out tha...

Little representation to help share these stories. im curious your thoughts on the lived experience here and what needs to change to make sure we have more representation across the landscape. intellectual curiosity about our fellow country men. >> tiffany, first of all, good morning. thank you for having me. you understand better than all of us in the room right now, the two of us, what this is all about. you have reported on the aapi community over the years youve been in the business. the ide...

Asian-americans have the right to be recognized as american, not as the other, no, sir as them but as us. >> this week president biden signed the covid-19 hate crimes act legislation that seeks to address a surge in violence against asian-americans since the start of the pandemic, but the lived experience of the aapi community in this country is so much more than victims of hate and violence. joining me now is my friend and colleague fellow msnbc anchor richard lui. hes the author of "enough abo...

Youll have to come back and talk about this more. you dont just represent the aapi community, you have a lot of things you can talk about, including alzheimers which is something i know is very near and dear to you. thank you, my friend, for joining me and check out richards new documentary, sky blossom. this brings families of different backgrounds together and thats next saturday. dont go anywhere because after the break, how did voter suppression in texas get two more seats in the house? i wi...

There were a number of rallies that were held in cities across the nation and in the Bay Area Saturday to denounce anti Asian hate and promote unity.

Updated 5 hours ago NBC Universal, Inc. When the number of hate crimes against Asians in the United States began to soar during the pandemic, Bay Area nonprofit Asian Pacific Fund joined with NBC Bay Area and our parent company Comcast to do something about it. "We are thrilled that because of the partnership with Comcast and NBC Bay Area and Telemundo, that we seeded with an initial $100,000 investment back in February that we have now reached an incredible milestone of over a million dollars ...

There were dueling events Friday on what should be done to curb the recent string of attacks against Asian American And Pacific Islander Community In San...

But thats a tall order these days with attacks on people in the AAPI community increasing in frequency and brutality. Nationally, crimes against the AAPI community surged 169% between early 2020 and 2021, with more than 6,600 incidents reported between March 19 and March 31 alone. About 13% of those were physical. A recent Pew Research survey found that a third of people in the AAPI community fear being attacked. Hsiung says in order to get AAPI victims to come forward about such attacks, polic...

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.