Anti-Asian hate crimes

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.

Hundreds attended a National Day of Solidarity Against AAPI Hate rally, one of many demonstrations across the country, at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common on Monday.