Virtual book launch for stories of Japanese American internment
SEATTLE — Author Daniel James Brown will attend a one-hour virtual book launch event on Tuesday, May 11 at 8 p.m. (EST), 7 p.m. (CST), 6 p.m. (MST) and 5[…]
Category: Discrimination
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Mural artist takes a stand on violence against Asians
By Tom LaVentureaapress.com SAN FRANCISCO (May 3, 2021) — A Bay Area artist who painted a mural with a stop violence against Asians message on a wall at her Motor[…]
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Civil Rights groups’ solidarity statement on hate crimes against Asian community
WASHINGTON (March 23, 2021) — In the aftermath of last week’s massacre in Atlanta where eight people were murdered, including six women of Asian descent, 207 civil and human rights[…]
Employment discrimination against Muslim Americans at Indian American IT companies causes outrage
Morton Grove, Ill. (Dec. 1, 2020) — The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, has condemned an increasing pattern of[…]
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Georgia groups sue over purged voters
Atlanta, Ga. (Dec. 4, 2020) — Voter advocacy groups in Georgia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday asking a federal court to compel the state to restore nearly 200,000 names to[…]
AAPI rights groups seek student entrance denial records from Border Patrol
Organizations To Examine CBP’s Enforcement, Treatment, and Denial of Admissions to International Students WASHINGTON, D.C. (Aug. 10, 2020) — Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC) and Asian[…]
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AAAJ denounces Trump administration plans to end Chinese student visas as Exclusion Act tactics
LOS ANGELES (June 1, 2020) — The President signed a proclamation last Friday indefinitely banning thousands of Chinese graduate students and researchers from obtaining visas and entering the U.S effective on[…]
George Floyd death sparks worldwide unity against racism
BY ROBERT SANAAP contributing writer MINNEAPOLIS (June 4, 2020) — On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man died in Minneapolis after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer,[…]
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Lecture: ‘Is India Headed Towards Ethnic Cleansing?’
Richardson, Texas — The Indian American Muslim Council (iamc.com) is hosting the lecture, “Is India Headed Towards Ethnic Cleansing?” to be delivered by Aman Wadud, a human rights attorney from the Indian[…]
Editorial: ‘Inescapable network of mutuality’ shapes Minnesota Equity blueprint
By Dane Smith Most of us know that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King gave his life fighting against segregation and securing basic human rights that had been denied for[…]
