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"When you encourage hate, it's not like a genie in a bottle where you can pull it out and push it back in whenever you want," said Manjusha Kulkarni, the co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate.
Dr. Warren Ng, psychiatry medical director at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, says reporting can help a person regain a sense of control after a racist incident.
6:33 "I Am Not A Virus" is the title track off Jordan VanHemert’s new album. VanHemert teaches jazz and saxophone at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and identifies as Korean American. When the pandemic hit, VanHemert was told by a colleague that violence against Asian Americans was not happening in the U.S., when in fact, incidents of anti-Asian hate crimes have been rampant throughout the last year. “And then the kind of the energy that I was feeling, the frustration, not only from this person, while gaslighting me, but also from my own experiences,” VanHemert said. News outlets nat...
When COVID-19 brought business as usual to a halt, something special happened at Sugar Bakeshop, 277 Broadway. “The most beautiful and exceptional thing was that the community helped us so much,” explains owner Natalie Slevin, “They especially wanted the popster, and that was the pastry that we kept cranking. There were some weeks where we would sell out so fast.” The popster, Slevin’s vegan take on a classic Pop-Tart with fillings like strawberry, blueberry and lemon lavender, was a bestseller at the bakery pre-pandemic, too. Slevin opened the shop in 2010 following six successful...
After a particularly painful year for the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, three leaders call for the workplace to become safer for all.