Diversity Management, News and Updates
We’ve known anti-Asian sentiment increased dramatically in the U.S. since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but new government data quantifies just how shockingly severe that jump has been. Based on recently released FBI data, Sakshi Venkatraman of NBC News reported that “anti-Asian hate crimes increased more than 73% in…
Following months of increased hate crimes involving Asian Americans and increased anti-Asian sentiment on the whole towards the AAPI community, a new Gallup Poll reveals that dissatisfaction with the way Asian Americans are treated in the United States has reached an all-time high. Based on Gallup’s new data, Bianca Brutus…
The COVID–19 Hate Crimes Act was approved by the House of Representatives on May 18 by a vote of 364-62. The bill, which was designed to address the increase in hate crimes and violence against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, had already been approved by the Senate last month….
After more than a week of debate and negotiation between Republicans and Democrats, the Senate appears to have neared a deal on anti-Asian hate crime legislation which could now go up for a vote for approval as early as today, April 22. Jordain Carney of The Hill has reported that…
Following the ongoing nationwide epidemic of anti-Asian violence, lawmakers in Massachusetts have introduced new legislation aimed at updating and strengthening laws surrounding hate crimes in the state. Steve LeBlanc of the Associated Press has reported that “a national spike in anti-Asian hate crimes — including a recent mass shooting in…
While President Biden has vowed to ramp up efforts to combat anti-Asian violence in the country and as attacks sadly continue to occur on a regular basis, there is at least one bit of hopeful news to report over this dark chapter in America’s history. Haleluya Hadero of The Associated Press…
On March 30, President Biden announced a new federal initiative aimed at curbing and helping to address the rampant spread of anti-Asian violence across the United States in recent months. Lauren Egan of NBC News reported that President Biden will “reinstate and expand the scope of the White House Initiative…
On March 17, 75-year-old Xiao Zhen Xie was going about her business on the streets of San Francisco when a man approached her out of nowhere and hit her in the face. The assault was just one in a number of growing anti-Asian attacks across the country in recent months,…
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 —…
In a horrific event that unfolded in less than an hour on the evening of March 15, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long is alleged to have entered three different Atlanta-area massage parlors, opening fire with a weapon and leaving eight people dead. At least four of the six female Asian victims…
