To that end, the California-based groups Chinese for Affirmative Action and the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council set up a hate reporting center last month. New York’s attorney general also launched a hotline. “We kind of just knew from…

Outreach has been happening for months in multiple languages, according to Hong Mei Pang with Chinese for Affirmative Action. She said the coronavirus has thrown a wrench in their plans, but they were able to move outreach activities online.…

CAA Co-Executive Director Cynthia Choi participates in a panel discussion to discuss the #StopAAPI Campaign and related COVID-19 racial discrimination and hate.…

The STOP AAPI HATE Reporting Center — an initiative founded by the Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council (A3PCON), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and San Francisco Asian American Studies Department — said that over 750 incidents were documented during…

Russell Jeung is chair of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, Manjusha P. Kulkarni is executive director of Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council, Cynthia Choi is executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action published an Op-Ed calling…

As coronavirus has spread across the U.S., so have reports of violence against people of Asian descent, and the FBI warns a surge in hate crimes could be yet to come. These fears have led to the creation of a…

Stop AAPI Hate, a project launched to track incidents of verbal harassment, physical assault and other forms of discrimination against Asians related to the Covid-19 pandemic, has been tracking nearly 100 such incidents a day. The project is a…

Several reasons may explain why Asian women are reporting three times more hate incidents than men — for example, it’s possible that Asian men are more likely to stay quiet about such incidents. But Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese…