Print Amy Lu, WBAL-TV
A pop-up market in Baltimore City is celebrating the best of Asian American talent and entrepreneurship this month as part of Asian American Pacific Islander Month.
The event is also a cause for activism. Every weekend, a hub of business at Whitehall Market spotlight Asian American Pacific Islanders, or AAPI for short. I really want to express solidarity with the broader AAPI community, said vendor Priya Narasimhan. It s just nice to have some visibility for who we are that we re in the community, we re makers that you probably already know.
The visibility comes at a critical time this year in celebration and in protest.
A pop-up market in Baltimore City is celebrating the best of Asian American talent and entrepreneurship this month as part of Asian American Pacific Islander Month.The event is also a cause for activism. Every weekend, a hub of business at Whitehall Market spotlight Asian American Pacific Islanders, or AAPI for short. I really want to express solidarity with the broader AAPI community, said vendor Priya Narasimhan. It s just nice to have some visibility for who we are that we re in the community, we re makers that you probably already know. The visibility comes at a critical time this year in celebration and in protest. It d be tone deaf not to recognize the disturbing and dramatic increase in anti-Asian hate, said organizer Denis Sgouros.An increase in hate, but also population. Asian Americans are now the fastest-growing demographic in the nation, according to Pew Research. This is not only our way of showing that and expressing it, but it s also just our way of coming toge
The majority say they approve of how Newsom handled schools this year.
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By John Fensterwald, Ed Source
More than 4 in 5 California adults, including public school parents, believe that the pandemic has caused children, especially low-income children and English learners, to fall behind academically. Six in 10 Californians are concerned that schools will not be open for full-time, in-person instruction in the fall, according to a survey by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released on April 28. The annual survey of Californians’ perspectives on education also found that a majority approved of the way Gov. Gavin Newsom has handled K-12 public schools, although opinions were split along partisan lines, with 22% of Republicans and 79% of Democrats supporting him on the issue.
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The mass shooting in Atlanta on March 16, which took the lives of six Asian women among the eight victims, appears to be a one-off event – the violent act of a deeply troubled 21-year-old man who, according to what he told the police, was trying to wipe away sexual temptation, in the form of massage parlors that he felt guilty patronizing.
But that s not how the incident was treated by the Asian American commentariat. Instead, a consensus quickly formed among journalists, scholars, and cultural figures writing op-eds and giving broadcast interviews that the shooting represented a pervasive, historical victimization by Asian people at the hands of the white majority. It was almost as if shootings of Asian women by white gunmen were an everyday occurrence, rather than a singular, exceedingly rare event.