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New Jersey Asians are divided on whether affirmative action is discriminatory to them. Now, the Supreme Court may decide.

A new group of Asian Americans is seeking elective office for the first time this year in New Jersey, adding diverse voices to local politics.

Do you like food, music and fashion? A busy two days are ahead for North Jetsey this weekend as Korean Americans celebrate important holidays.

Do you like food, music and fashion? A busy two days are ahead for North Jersey this weekend as Korean Americans celebrate important holidays.

한국을 대표하는 글로벌 방송! The World On Arirang!

A property in Ivor Court, Marylebone, the block where Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts lived and visited by Mick Jagger is up for sale.

"It was very hard that week," she says, adding that being in community with other AAPI justice leaders that week was crucial for her to remain resilient. She remembers being on a call with the Asian American Leaders Table and processing what an Atlanta-area sheriffs office said was the result of one man having a "bad day," instead of what many advocates say was an act fueled by racism and sexism. "The fact that we could be together right after what happened was really important," Kulkarni says....

I feel like I was meant to do this: Asian American activists reflect on their work in the last year CNBC 5/6/2021 © Provided by CNBC A man holds a sign that reads Manjusha Kulkarni describes the March 16 Atlanta-area shooting of eight people, including the killing of six Asian women, as "beyond our worst nightmares." Kulkarni, 51, is South Asian American and executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council. In February 2020, she co-founded Stop AAPI Hate, the national c...

"It was very hard that week," she says, adding that being in community with other AAPI justice leaders that week was crucial for her to remain resilient. She remembers being on a call with the Asian American Leaders Table and processing what an Atlanta-area sheriffs office said was the result of one man having a "bad day," instead of what many advocates say was an act fueled by racism and sexism. "The fact that we could be together right after what happened was really important," Kulkarni says....

Those are some of the emotions that have wracked Asian Americans in North Jersey after witnessing unprovoked race-based attacks as Asians have been scapegoated for the COVID-19 pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China. But Asian Americans are harnessing that emotion and using it to fuel a mass movement designed to stem the tide of hate against Asians. In cities across the United States in recent weeks, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate.  More than 150 years after ...