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End the 24-hour workday: NYC home health workers begin hunger strike
March 20, 2024These workers, mostly women of color, do it all—cook, clean, change diapers, administer medicine, and more—and they do it 24 hours a day.
Read more‘This Is Not a True Story’ recapitulates anti-Asian micro-aggressions in purgatory
September 28, 2023LOS ANGELES — Western (i.e., Caucasian) artists have a seemingly irrepressible urge to fetishize, generalize, and stereotype all other cultures and people—Indigenous peoples, Asians, Latinos/as, Africans—and even some now regarded as “white” but who were once...
Read moreCalifornia’s new A.G. announces ‘Racial Justice Bureau’ to combat hate surge
May 14, 2021State Attorney General Rob Bonta says California is "in a full-on state of crisis, a full-on state of emergency when it comes to hate violence against the Asian Pacific Islander community."
Read morePolice will not keep Asian communities safe from violence
March 23, 2021Vulnerable members of Asian communities will not be kept safe by increasing police patrols in Asian neighborhoods and the continued bloating of police budgets.
Read moreThe stain that won’t wash (or be whitewashed)
March 18, 2021The latest from People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.
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