March 20, 2021
As attention is being focused on the increase of violence directed at Asian Americans, including the March 16 mass shooting in Georgia, Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San...
March 19, 2021
The deadly Atlanta-area spa shootings on March 16 have again raised questions about the complex history of hate crime laws and why, in many cases where attacks appear to be obvious bias crimes, police and prosecutors seem to move...
March 19, 2021
The Poynter Institute’s political news website, in an article about the underreporting of hate crimes against Asian Americans, pointed to the work of the CSUSB Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism as one of the respected source...
March 20, 2021
The killings of six women of Asian descent in Georgia this week have prompted fresh calls to pass hate crime laws in the handful of states without them and for law enforcement elsewhere to invoke protections already in place. And some...
March 20, 2021
From Sacramento to Salt Lake City to Philadelphia, thousands gathered this weekend at vigils across the country with signs, candles, portraits and flowers grieving the eight victims of the March 16 shootings in Atlanta and crying out...
March 22, 2021
Anti-Asian hate crime increased in major cities from 2019 to 2020 while overall hate crime dropped, according to police reports collected by the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino.
Although most...
March 21, 2021
A pair of North San Diego County high school students have rallied hundreds of people in response to a national spike in hate and violence directed against Asian Americans since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, hate...
The Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries and Hmong Innovating Politics Organization organized a community vigil on Saturday, March 20, to honor the eight people who were killed in the Atlanta spa shootings.
An analysis released by the...
March 19, 2021
The Asian-American community in the Hudson Valley is on edge following the deadly shooting of eight people, including six Asian women, at three Atlanta area spas on Tuesday. A recent report from California State University San...
March 20, 2021
People from all backgrounds stood in solidarity with the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in West Michigan on Saturday. The rally, held at Rosa Parks Circle in Grand Rapids, was organized by the Grand Rapids Asian Pacific...
March 18, 2021
The 23rd Senate District’s Woman of the Year 2021 is Dr. Cherina Betters, chief of equity and access for San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools. The first in her family to graduate from college, Betters holds a doctorate in...