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Photo of Gunplay via Flickr Creative Commons by Deadpool46. Photo of China Mac by Nancy Hung and Lillian Bit By Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent A profanity laced racist tirade by rapper Gunplay left fellow rapper China Mac nearly speechless. Appearing in a video interview on YouTube, China Mac looked...

By Eric Chang, AsAmNews Contributor Hundreds of youth showed up this past Saturday to San Francisco Chinatown's Portsmouth Square to attend the "They Can't Burn Us All" Youth Rally. The Rally was organized by rapper China Mac and actor Will Lex Ham, as a part of their national movement called,...

By Lillian Bit, AsAmNews Staff Writer Rapper and activist China Mac has put out his first single and music video, They Can”t Burn Us All. The first song by him specifically targets anti-Asian racism. The name They Can’t Burn Us All is also on the album cover and aptly...

By Lillian Bit, AsAmNews Contributor Rapper China Mac reacted with both compassion and concern following the arrests of two teenagers accused of setting an 89-year-old woman on fire in Brooklyn. The grandma, who is now known to be a feisty survivor, put out the fire by pressing her back repeatedly against...

By Ross Killion & Lillian Bit & Nancy Hung, AsAmNews Contributors China Mac and William Lex Ham raised over $10,000 for their initiative to support the Chinatown economy by purchasing food and other supplies from local businesses. A distribution center in Kimlau Square, which is next to Confucius Plaza, was...

By Lillian Bit & Nancy Hung, AsAmNews Contributors On Friday, China Mac and William Lex Ham woke up happy and energized to meet anyone who would like to meet them at an action rally to help save businesses in Manhattan Chinatown. They gathered at Washington Square Park and marched...

By Lillian Bit and Nancy Hung, AsAmNews Contributors Some 250 marched through New York Chinatown to in a march against hate. It started this afternoon in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, wound its way through the streets of Chinatown and finally at the 7th Police Precinct on Pitt Street. It...

By Lillian Bit, AsAmNews Contributor Rapper China Mac met yesterday with the now 90-year-old grandma set on fire by two men in New York on July 14. He posted a photo on his Instagram page with her and others who are organizing a rally Saturday to demand justice in the...

Elected and community leaders in New York are calling on police to launch a hate crime investigation after two men set a woman on fire. The incident which happened on July 14 incited outrage within the Asian American community. The unidentified men approached a now 90-year-old victim and without apparent...

Honolulu Police are seeking two people accused of intentionally ramming their vehicle into a man with a machete, reports the Star-Advertiser. Authorities identified the machete-wielding man as Trevor Guttman. They say he had threatened two women, 21 and 19, and a 23-year-old man. KITV reports they arrested Guttman in...

Police in Seattle are investigating the placement of stickers promoting white nationalists throughout the city's Chinatown-International District, reports Patch. Witnesses saw three men in masks plastering the stickers on several Asian American-owned businesses. Q13 reports stunned and concerned community members spent time scraping off most of the White supremacist propaganda. “They were...

A recent Yahoo Travel piece tried to answer the question--who had the better Chinatown--New York or San Francisco (photo by jakubkadlec). As you might expect from a mainstream outlet, it was done from a tourist's perspective. Here's my perspective as a Chinese American who went to school in Chinatown for both...

By Jia H. Jung, California Local News Fellow On June 17th, the Chinese coast guard rammed at high speed into Philippine navy boats at the Second Thomas Shoal of the Spratly Islands, or Ayungin, a maritime territory claimed by multiple nations. The Chinese military then boarded the crafts, brandishing long...

By Julie Tong Asian American civic groups held a rare two-hour forum with the FBI in hopes of rebuilding trust from alleged discriminatory policies against Asian Americans.  Billed as “A Dialogue Between Academic and Asian American Communities and the FBI,” the forum was hosted at Rice University, and sponsored by APA...

The victim of a fatal stabbing in Vancouver's Chinatown that occurred on Wednesday has recently been identified as Wataru Kakiuchi, a 32-year-old chef working at a Hapa Izakaya, a modern izakaya restaurant in Downtown Vancouver. Vancouver's mayor Ken Sim called Kakiuchi's murder a "senseless act of violence," that "has our...

Macy's has announced the sale of the Asian American doll, the Jilly Doll. The true-to-life doll, developed by Asian American mom Eleanor Mak, is now available at select Toys "R" Us locations and online at Macys.com. Mak founded her company "Jilly Bing" out of frustrations over the lack of representation...

Victim in critical condition following a shooting that occurred over the night in the Downtown Los Angeles Chinatown neighborhood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuMoXeO2ewE&list=RDNSyuMoXeO2ewE&start_radio=1 Fox11 reported that around 2 a.m. on Thursday, the victim who is a man between 20 to 25-years-old was refused entry to a popular pub on Hill Street because he may...

On Wednesday, CEO of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, appeared in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Republican Senator (R-AR) Tom Cotton repeatedly questioned Chew’s connection to China. After stating that he is Singaporean, Cotton pressed on.  Chew testified on Capitol Hill along with CEOs of Meta, X, Snap, and...

By Sunita Sohrabji, Ethnic Media Services China bashing loomed large at the third Republican Presidential debate Nov. 8 in Miami Florida, setting off fears of a fresh wave of anti-Asian American hate crimes. “We have significant concerns about the 2024 election in the current political landscape, and believe hate crimes and...

by Shirley L. Ng, AsAmNews Contributor For almost a century, some Chinese Americans have called Bradley Beach, New Jersey, their summer home. As summer drew to a close this year, Bradley Beach held a special celebration to formally recognize its "Chinatown By The Sea." On Saturday, August 26, many Chinese Americans...