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Though police haven t classified the attack as a hate crime, it follows other deadly assaults and rising harassment of Asian Americans in New York. ....
Calamity Chang is back on stage and she s bringing the show to a screen near you. Chang, the burlesque bombshell, is co-presenting the New York Asian Burlesque Extravaganza via Zoom at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 21. (For more from the world of burlesque, watch our video interview with New Jersey native burlesque star Angie Pontani at the top of this story.) Chang and Jen Gapay s Thirsty Girl Productions are presenting the online spectacular in lieu of the eighth annual New York Asian Burlesque Festival, originally scheduled for May 2020 and postponed until this fall. Even the virtual showcase, originally planned for July 2020, was postponed by nearly a year due to last summer s movement for racial equity. ....
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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 Asians first settled in America, Asian Americans are for the first time mobilizing en masse in a civil rights movement. The recent attacks have prompted many to speak out for the first time, shedding cultural norms. ....