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As Republican leaders champion legislation they say would defend against interference by “foreign adversaries” such as China at Florida universities and other institutions, some critics say new state laws aren’t necessary and could discourage talented researchers from coming to the state.
Stop AAPI Hate: Industry Heavyweights, Activists On Hollywood's Responsibility Matt Donnelly, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Flabbergasted on a Zoom call, “Nomadland” director Chloe Zhao accepted the Golden Globe for best director on Sunday night. Between gratitude and marveling over the historic moment, as the first person of Asian descent and second woman ever to win the prize, came a somber question. Zhao was asked for her thoughts on increased violence against Asian American Pacific Islander communities in America, an abhorrent trend of hate crimes in the past months that only bega...
Attacks against Asian Americans are on the rise. Here's what you can do CNN 3/17/2021 By Ashley Vaughan, CNN © Ringo Chiu/AFP/Getty Images "It has been a really painful experience to see our most revered members of our community being targeted," says Doris Chang, clinical psychologist and professor at New York University. "We're just tired," Will Lex Ham of New York City tells CNN. "We're tired of being scapegoated." Ham's sentiments echo the fatigue, frustration and collective trauma experienced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) due to recent racist attack...
Image from a Department of Justice website. On Jan. 14, with less than a week to go in the Trump administration, federal agents arrested a prominent mechanical engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gang Chen. Chen, prosecutors alleged, failed to disclose on a federal grant application various financial ties and affiliations with Chinese entities, including his participation in Chinese government talent programs and his service as an expert scientific consultant to the Chinese government -- omissions, or in federal prosecutors’ view, deliberate concealments tha...
They gather almost every night at San Francisco's Dragon Gate, the ornately decorated entrance to the nation's oldest Chinatown. Armed with only whistles and pamphlets, the volunteer neighbourhood patrol roams the streets, checking out ATMs and mum-and-pop shops in areas where Asian residents have experienced attacks that have left this neighbourhood on edge. Some volunteers drive more than an hour to walk these blocks - largely deserted by a combination of fear and pandemic lockdown - to hand out bilingual fliers that explain how to report a crime to police. Similar patrols have sprouted in...