AAPI

Despite AAPI businesses being the fastest-growing sector in Massachusetts, these businesses often encounter significant obstacles, ranging from exclusionary policies to hate-based violence.

Approximately 15,000 people gathered June 25 at the National Mall here for the first-ever Unity March, organized to draw attention to the dramatic spike in hate crimes against the Asian American Pacific Islander Community

Forty years ago, on the eve of his wedding, a young Chinese American named Vincent Chin was fatally beaten with a baseball bat on the streets of Detroit by two white men shouting anti-Asian slurs. The miscarriage of justice that followed — neither assailant served a day in jail for the crime — marked the birth of the modern day Asian American civil rights movement.