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2Apr

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SOCIAL JUSTICE, VIDEO REELS

Young Asian American Adults Are The Only Racial Group With Suicide As Their Leading Cause Of Death, So Why Is No One Talking About This?

Racially motivated violence looks like the mass shootings that killed Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Chung Park, Hyun Grant and Suncha Kim in Atlanta on March 16, 2021. Racially motivated violence also looks like suicide, which is defined as a deliberate act of self-directed violence in order to cause injury to oneself that results in death. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. When broken down by race, suicide is the first leading cause of death among Asian American young adults age 15-24. This is true of no other racial group in this age range in America. Despite this disparity, very little attention is paid by society and by gatekeeping institutions like academe and private and public funding...

Buffalo Wild Wings asks group to move seats because customer ‘didn’t want black people sitting near them’

4Apr

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Journalism

Buffalo Wild Wings asks group to move seats because customer ‘didn’t want black people sitting near them’

A Buffalo Wild Wings near Chicago says it has fired multiple employees after a family claimed they were asked to move tables over another customer's "racist" remarks. Mary Vahl and her family were celebrating a child's birthday at the restaurant chain last week when the alleged incident occurred. Just as their group — the majority of whom were African American — was about to be seated, a staff member asked them if they could move to a new section, due to the request of some "regular customers." "A couple of minutes went by and the host went up to my husband and asked 'what race are you guys?'" Vahl wrote in a now-viral Facebook post describing the encounter. Mary's husband, Justin Vahl, told the Washington Post that he asked the host why their race mattered. The employee responded by sa...

2Apr

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VIDEO REELS

Chicago group aims to stop shootings

In one of the United States's deadliest cities, a group is attempting to curb gun crime by working with community. Thanks to a group that's using former gang members to reach out to one of the city's most violent neighbourhoods, gun shootings in Chicago have plummeted. It's using a novel method with a disruptive approach. by John Hendren Al Jazeera's John Hendren reports from Chicago.

13Nov

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IN OTHER NEWS

Chloe Ayling to Testify in Second “Black Death Group” Kidnapping Case in Italy

Lawyers in Italy have called for Chloe Ayling, the victim of kidnappers who wanted to sell her on the darkweb, to testify against one of her suspected kidnappers at an upcoming hearing in Milan. The defendant’s legal team has pointed to several inaccuracies in the victim’s story and hopes that questioning her in court will help clear their client’s name. Ayling, 21, caught the media’s attention last year after she revealed that multiple men from a human trafficking group had kidnapped her in Milan, Italy, after luring her to Italy for a fake modeling gig. The human traffickers, she said, had called themselves the “Black Death Group”. According to statements she gave to the police after one week in captivity, the so-called “Black Death Group” had operatives spread across the globe who kidn...

17Nov

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Journalism

Deconstructing a Hate Group

917. Nine-hundred and seventeen. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), there are currently 917 active hate groups in the U.S. with the exception of Alaska or Hawai'I. According to the FBI, a hate group's primary purpose is to promote animosity, hostility, malice, and fear against persons belonging to a race, religion, ethnicity/national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability other designated sector of society which differs from that of members of the organization. But, why? It begins with our socialization, the way we pass things from generation to generation. Children are taught to walk, talk, identify the differences between the colors white or red and black or green. As a child is taught that white depicts goodness, righteousness, purity, intelligence, s...