Diversity Management, News and Updates
In their first full concert since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Korean pop group BTS — one of the most popular groups in music today — condemned the consistent anti-Asian racism they have experienced over the past two years. Brahmjot Kaur of NBC News reported that ahead of a series of…
The monthlong celebration of Asian Heritage and Pacific Islander Heritage Month started with a simple ask by one Asian woman about representation. In 1992, New York Congressman Frank Horton introduced a bill designating May as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. During the congressional hearing to debate the bill,…
Capt. Jay Baker of Cherokee county in Atlanta, Georgia appears to be having a “bad day” as well. After 21-year-old white domestic terrorist Robert Aaron Long went on a massacre in the Atlanta area, visiting three Asian spas and murdering eight people — six of whom were Asian women —…
Community members in Oakland, California are stepping up to keep Asian American people safe amid a recent flurry of assaults against Asian American elders, spurred on by racist disinformation and xenophobic scapegoating from the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this year, a video of elderly Thai American man Vicha Ratanapakdee being brutally…
