admin | May 23, 2021
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Asian American Foundation ("TAAF") today announced that just two weeks after launching it has raised nearly $1.1 billion to support AAPI communities.
admin | May 18, 2021
As Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has directed all military branches to identify extremismin the ranks, officials with the U.S.
admin | May 18, 2021
Yitzhak Arad, who as an orphaned teenage partisan fought the Germans and their collaborators during World War II, then went on to become an esteemed scholar of the Holocaust and the longtime chairman of the Yad Vashem remembrance and research center in Israel, died on May 6 in a hospital in Tel Aviv. He was 94
admin | May 18, 2021
On May 11, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas gave testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee pointing out that the greatest domestic threat facing the United States emanates from, as Garland stated, violent extremists, specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race.[i] This followed March 2021 testimony of FBI Director Christopher Wray before the Senate Judiciary Committee in which Wray warned of a rapidly growing threat of homegrown violent extremism that law enforcement is scrambling to contain through thousands of investigations. Echoing previous FBI warnings on the threat of white supremacist groups, he added that the domestic terrorism threat has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now and is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.
admin | May 18, 2021
This story is a part of Hearst Television's series "Hate in the Homeland." Our National Investigative Unit is uncovering the battle against hateful acts in America.
admin | May 14, 2021
To the Editor: Re Trumps Facebook Ban Upheld, Reviving Debate on Free Speech (front page, May 6): The Facebook Oversight Boards decision upholding the ban on former President Donald Trump has laid bare a fundamental problem with the social media network: It has utterly failed at reining in hate, extremism and disinformation.
admin | May 14, 2021
Pete Simi is an associate professor of sociology at Chapman University. Peter Levi is a rabbi and regional director for the Anti-Defamation League. Kim Carr is the mayor of Huntington Beach.
admin | May 14, 2021
The recent arrest of a Portland neo-Nazi on child pornography charges provided a stark reminder that New England is not immune to the expansion of white nationalist extremist groups in the United States. An expert on the National Socialist Club, or NSC-131, said the extremist group that recently established a presence in Maine represents a tiny offshoot in the wider world of white supremacist groups and might count only about two dozen members in New England.
admin | May 14, 2021
This story is a part of Hearst Television's series "Hate in the Homeland." Our National Investigative Unit is uncovering the battle against hateful acts in America. Stay with this station for more stories on the fight against Hate in the Homeland.The vast majority of law enforcement agencies are not reporting hate crimes to a key federal database, hampering efforts to contain a rise in hate incidents and leaving communities nationwide in the dark about the prevalence of hate in the homeland, a Hearst Television National Investigative Unit series has found
admin | May 14, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change (LAAUNCH) today announced the findings of its inaugural STAATUS Index (Social Tracking of Asian Americans in the U.S.), a comprehensive assessment of Americans' attitudes toward Asian Americans, and one of the first such studies in 20 years. The survey reveals 8 out of 10 Asian Americans say they are discriminated against in the U.S. and 77% do not feel respected.
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