Category: In the News

Mental health professionals, federal policymakers, and community leaders gather to advance equity and improve access to behavioral health care for AA and NHPIs.

Fellow Democrats, civil rights advocates and even members of his own family are excoriating presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he floated a conspiracy theory that COVID-19 is “ethnically targeted” to disproportionately attack white and Black people while Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people are most immune.

A new report from the California Department of Justice notes that hate crimes against Asian Americans have dramatically dropped since last year. But civil rights advocates say the data does not accurately reflect the threats the community continues to face.

"Measures like this appear to be solutions looking for a problem."

NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Manju Kulkarni, co-founder of the group Stop AAPI Hate, about the report.

In an effort to reimagine how it can better draw district lines, the Los Angeles City Council's Committee on Governance Reform will spend the next three months hearing input from L.A. residents.

An Op-Ed by Manjusha Kulkarni and Cynthia Choi, co-founders of Stop AAPI Hate

Over 100 community organizations across California — including several based in Sacramento — are calling for the governor to expand California’s investment in strategies to prevent violence against Asians, support those harmed by such violence and implement educational programs for understanding and acceptance.

Making the invisible, visible is the mission of Stop AAPI Hate, an organization founded at the beginning of the pandemic that set about aggregating hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders nationwide.

It's time to take a second look