Cynthia Choi, co-director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, one of the organizations that launched the website, acknowledged that the online reporting does not guard against fictitious reports and online trolls. But she said the reports show clear similarities in the…

Cynthia Choi, Co-Executive Director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, said it is disconcerting to see the rise in hate incidents. “This is only scratching the surface because we haven’t even publicized the site very widely,” she said. While many incidents…

More than 650 reports of discrimination, mainly against Asian Americans, have been shared with Stop AAPI Hate, an online incident reporting site created by the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON) and Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), since A3PCON launched the form…

While this new website has been in the news a bit this past week, these numbers are new: In the broader U.S., more than 550 incidents have been reported to the STOP AAPI HATE Reporting Center in the same period,…

Cynthia Choi – “Trump didn’t invent, you know, anti-Asian sentiment. He’s merely perpetuating a longstanding stereotype and racist tropes about Asian Americans that have existed since we migrated to this country. And that is of being diseases, of being unhygienic…

In California, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council and the Chinese for Affirmative Action launched their website Stop AAPI Hate last week in response to growing news reports about hate crimes and discrimination targeting Asian-Americans. …

In experiencing racism and xenophobia, Chen is far from alone. The San Francisco-based Chinese for Affirmative Action organization, along with the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council and the San Francisco Asian American Studies Department, recently launched an online reporting center to document alleged…

San Francisco State University found a 50 percent rise in the number of news articles related to the coronavirus and anti-Asian discrimination between Feb. 9 and March 7. The lead researcher, Russell Jeung, a professor of Asian-American studies, said the…