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Vandalism at Black Wall Street Gallery. Photo courtesy of Black Wall Street Gallery. Monday was the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, in which white mobs burned the city’s prosperous Greenwood neighborhood, known as Black Wall Street, to the ground, killing as many as 300 African Americans. When Ricco Wright, owner of New York’s Black Wall Street Gallery, arrived for work that day, he was disturbed to discover that vandals had covered a sign for his business with white paint. The incident took place between 11 p.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday, according to CBS. “We’ve called...

On a recent afternoon in Flushing, Queens, Assembly Member Ron Kim filtered through Main Street’s crowded sidewalks with his 6-year-old daughter in tow,

Asian-American woman punched on New York City sidewalk in attack caught on camera By Caitlin O'Kane Communities combat anti-Asian hate crimes Another violent attack on an Asian-American was caught on camera in New York City on Monday. Video shows a man walk up to an Asian-American woman and sucker-punch her in broad daylight in the city's Chinatown neighborhood.  The suspect has been arrested and charged with assault as a hate crime and other counts, CBS New York reports. Investigators say the suspect, Alexander Wright, was found with what looks like the drug K2. They bel...

A day after condemning the surge in anti-Semetic attacks, the administrators at Rutgers University issued an apology, to the Palestinian community.

Joseph Borgen: The Jewish man who was the victim of a gang assault in New York says the level of hatred was troubling CNN 2 hrs ago © CNN A 29-year-old Jewish man, who was attacked in a New York City gang assault said Friday that he could not understand why there was so much hate directed at him. Joseph Borgen told CNN's Don Lemon he doesn't want revenge on the crowd that punched, kicked and pepper-sprayed him while shouting anti-Semitic slurs on Thursday night, but he wondered about the level of hatred. "My main takeaway would be to understand where they are coming from because I don't g...