Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate
Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate Newly spurred to action to combat bias, they generate subway posters, leverage social media, stage Zoom webinars. “Our community couldn’t take being invisible any longer,” one artist says. From left, Tomie Arai, ManSee Kong and Betty Yu, founders of the Chinatown Art Brigade, an activist group working to forestall the gentrification of New York’s Chinatown neighborhood and the mass displacement that results.Credit...Jingyu Lin for The New York Times By Aruna D’Souza April 18, 2021Updated 11:22 a.m. ET Early in the pandemi...
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