Page 8 - Michael Nitz News Today

I kept it because i knew there was something more to that story. >> it was on a summer night in 1982. >> vincent chin was out for his bachelor party and was going to be married in a few day. and instead he ran into the kind of person that every asian in detroit was afraid that they might run into. >> inside the bar, 43-year-old ronald ebens and his 23-year-old stepson, michael nitz, taunted chin, mistaking him for japanese. >> the confrontation turned physical and continued out on the streets. v...

COVID-19 forced Ling to pivot from immersion journalism to deep history dives, including her CNN series connecting hate against Asian Americans and more to today's tensions.

Whatever the pretensions of the UAW, the upsurge in anti-Asian hate crimes are a completely foreseeable, and indeed inevitable, outgrowth of its promotion of “America First” nationalism.

Chin, a Chinese American man, was murdered by two white men in Michigan

The long, ugly history of racism against the AAPI community Decades of discrimination against Asian Americans included the Chinese Exclusion Act, the murder of Vincent Chin and Americas first immigration ban based on race. Author: Shern-Min Chow, Matthew Torres Published: 1:43 PM PDT May 17, 2021 Updated: 1:55 PM PDT May 17, 2021 The attacks that killed eight people at three spas in or around Atlanta in mid-March helped further ignite a nationwid...

Sarath Suong has often felt like the term “Asian American” doesn’t really serve him. “I was told that I am Asian American when we came here,” says Suong, a Cambodian refugee who immigrated to the US as a child. “But I faced a lot of colorism, a lot of classism, and not a lot of understanding about who Southeast Asians are and how we fit into the Asian American context.” Suong and his family were among tens of thousands of refugees who fled during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia...

Author to Discuss Impact of Vincent Chin Case Posted On The Chinese American Museum presents “It Matters: Revisiting Vincent Chin and His Historic Impact on the Asian American Movement” on Tuesday, May 4, from 5 to 6 p.m. Pacific Time. Paula Yoo, author of “From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement” (Norton Young Readers), sits down with Pam Ng, labor organizer and booktuber, to discuss Yoo’s extraordinary...

Paula Yoo displays her new book on the killing of Vincent Chin during an online National Archives event on April 20, 2021. WASHINGTON, April 23, 2021 — Watching the news in March, when a man fatally shot eight people in Atlanta, six of whom were Asian American, felt unwelcomingly familiar to journalist Paula Yoo. The grieving family members and friends. The targeted violence. She knew what this looked and sounded like.  “I flashed back to when I interviewed Vincent Chins family, frie...

Share April 20, 2021, 11:13 PM This is an excerpt from the just-released book "From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry -- The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement." Chins fatal 1982 beating and the cries of injustice that followed still resonate . Paula Yoo is a former Detroit News reporter, who moved to Los Angeles to author books and write for TV shows.   By Paula Yoo When Ronald Ebens swung the Jackie Robinson "Louisville Slugger" base...

Lt. Gov. Jon Husted’s coronavirus tweet left Asian Americans feeling disappointed in Ohio leadership Seth A. Richardson, cleveland.com © Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com/Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com Hundreds of Asian community members and supporters came out to the Stop Asian Hate rally in Cleveland. The rally was in response to the hate crimes against the Asian American community. CLEVELAND, Ohio – Oanh Loi-Powell came to the United States in 1975 as a refugee from Vietnam w...