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Racism, work-from-home, lack of tourism all blows to Chinatown’s health One year on, Chinatown, situated by the Old Port — is home to 160 businesses employing 400 people — is fighting for its survival. At the height of the pandemic, Montreal was considered the seventh deadliest place in the world for COVID-19 related deaths due outbreaks in old-age residences. Due to this stigma, Chinatown and the Chinese community were disproportionately affected by increased cases of racism, vandalism ...

Updated: 1:03 PM PST, February 11, 2021 When Patrick Mock, manager of the bakery 46 Mott Street, saw his neighbors in New York Citys Chinatown struggle as lockdowns forced many out of a job, he began handing out meals for free – which he continues to do nightly, 10 months into the pandemic. As many Asian Americans await the Year of the Ox to begin the ringing in of the Chinese New Year on Friday, they do so with anxiety and unease, a stark contrast to the hopeful attitudes for luck and pros...

Daniel Wu and W. Kamau Bell spoke with us about the recent uptick in violence against Asian Americans in the Bay Area as videos of attacks on elderly people have gone viral. They spoke about racism and allyship between the Black and Asian communities.

  Home / National News / Violent attacks on elderly Asian Americans in Bay Area leaves community members traumatized Violent attacks on elderly Asian Americans in Bay Area leaves community members ‘traumatized’ kali9/iStockBy KIARA BRANTLEY-JONES and STACY CHEN, ABC News (SAN FRANCISCO) — A reported string of nearly two dozen violent, unprovoked attacks against Asians and Asian Americans in the Bay Area in recent weeks has left the community on edge, advocates say. While police say th...

Asian American communities being targeted by hate crime, unprovoked attacks during pandemic Nearly 3,000 cases targeting Asian Americans have been reported nationwide since the start of the pandemic. Asian American communities across the country are seeing more unprovoked and violent attacks during the pandemic. A man was arrested for a series of random attacks on Asian Americans in the Chinatown neighborhood in Oakland, California, including the attack of a 91-year-old elderly man that was c...

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Violence against elderly Asian Americans in the Bay Area is skyrocketing Sign In FacebookTwitterEmail Asian Americans across the Bay Area are concerned over a rising number of violent anti-Asian attacks.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In March, when much of the nation shut down in response to the coronavirus landing on American shores, the Anti-Defamation League estimated that there were at least 57 instances of anti-Asian harassment and violence nationwide. And in recent weeks, the string of viol...

By Nathan Frandino (Reuters) - A crime wave in Oakland, California's Chinatown has rankled the community heading into the Lunar New Year, prompting ce...

A Tense Lunar New Year for the Bay Area After Attacks on Asian-Americans The attacks have renewed fears over a wave of anti-Asian violence and harassment that was spurred earlier in the pandemic. Max Leung, second from right, handing out information on how to report a hate crime to a group of men playing cards in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Thursday.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times The videos are graphic and shocking. In January, a local television station showed footage o...

Business and civil rights groups in California are demanding action after a recent surge of xenophobic violence against Asian Americans in the San