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The feeling of being seen is resonating for Asian American and Pacific Islander students and faculty at college campuses.

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) While The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, a supposed fact-checker, is hot on the case of trying to disprove Tim Scott’s family history during Jim Crow, other Democrats have just come right out with their racist attacks against the Republican Senator. One of those people was a Texas Democrat named Gary O’Connell. As I wrote previously, upon seeing racist idiocy like “Uncle Tim” trend following Scott’s rebuttal to Joe Biden’s address to Congress, O’Connell handed his beer to Glenn Kessler, strapped on some water skis, and found the nearest shark to jump o...

There is little understanding in the US of who exactly Sikhs are and what they believe. 2 hours ago A candlelight vigil in Indianapolis, United States, to remember the victims of the mass shooting. | Jeff Dean / AFP The site was reported as having a significant number of Sikh employees, and the massacre has left the community shaken and in grief. “I have sat with families from our community and so many others at the Holiday Inn Express as they wait to hear the fates of their loved ones,” said Maninder Singh Walia, a member of the Indianapolis Sikh community. “T...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on CNN praised Biden's denouncing attacks on Asian Americans, citing his own family's experiences with discrimination.

A rise in assaults against Asian Americans last year seems primarily tied to the coronavirus pandemic. Some Asian Americans also worry that heightened tensions between the U.S. and China and growing fears of China's espionage activities stateside could make them more vulnerable to racist attacks.Driving the news: There were more than 2,800 incidents of verbal and physical assaults directed at Asian Americans in 2020, according to Stop AAPI Hate, an organization founded early last year to track hate crimes against people of Asian American Pacific Islander heritage, Axios' Shawna Chen ...