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MLB Moves All-Star Game To Colorado Amid Uproar Over Georgia Voting Law

By NPR News April 6, 2021

Major League Baseball's 2021 All-Star Game will be played in Colorado's Coors Field, the league says, after it canceled plans for Atlanta to host baseball's midseason centerpiece. The change came in response to Georgia's controversial new voting law, which the MLB says is against its values.Read More

Jay Inslee Decries ‘Horrendous Surge’ Of Violence Against Asian Americans

By NWPB News March 22, 2021

Noriko Nasu, a high school teacher who was attacked earlier in the year while walking through Seattle's Chinatown-International District, speaks about the possible hate crime Monday, March 22, 2021, at a news conference at Renton City Hall in Renton, Wash., south of Seattle. Nasu joined Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and other leaders Monday to denounce recent acts of violence and harassment targeted at Asians and Asian communities. CREDIT: Ted S. Warren/AP

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee was joined Monday by community leaders to decry what he called a “horrendous surge” of violence against Asian-Americans.Read More

For Asian American Women, Misogyny And Racism Are Inseparable, Sociologist Says

By NPR News March 20, 2021

Activists demonstrate outside Gold Spa in Atlanta where a mass shooter killed three women on Tuesday night in a rampage that left eight people dead, including six Asian women. CREDIT: Megan Varner/Getty Images

Although authorities have said it's too early to declare the attack a hate crime, they said the gunman's actions — relying on the suspect's own words — were not racially motivated, but driven by a sex addiction. He confessed to officers that in committing the acts he wanted to "eliminate" a "temptation."Read More

‘Enough Is Enough’: Georgia Shootings Spur Debate Over Hate Crime Label

By NPR News March 19, 2021

Mallory Rahman and her daughter Zara Rahman, 4, bring flowers to the Gold Spa in Atlanta on Wednesday, the day after eight people were killed at three massage spas in the Atlanta area. Authorities have arrested Robert Aaron Long, 21, in the shootings in Atlanta and Cherokee County, Ga. CREDIT: Ben Gray/AP

Asian Americans and their allies are calling for solidarity and a push against discrimination and racist violence after a gunman killed eight people at three Atlanta-area spas Tuesday. Most of the victims were women of Asian descent.Read More

What We Know So Far About The Victims Of The Atlanta-Area Shootings

By NPR News March 18, 2021

Shelby Swan places a sign outside Youngs Asian Massage, where four people were shot and killed this week in Acworth, Ga. Another four people were fatally shot at two massage businesses in Atlanta, but authorities have not released their names. CREDIT: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images

Four people were killed in the shooting at Youngs Asian Massage in Acworth, Ga., the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office said on Wednesday. They have been identified as Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan and Daoyou Feng. The sole survivor, Elcias R. Hernandez-Ortiz, remains hospitalized with injuries.Read More

8 People, Most Asian Women, Shot Dead At Atlanta-Area Massage Parlors; Man Arrested

By NPR News March 17, 2021

At least eight people were killed and several others injured in a series of shootings at three spas in the Atlanta metro region Tuesday. A suspect has been taken into custody in connection with all three shootings, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Read More

MLB Moves All-Star Game To Colorado Amid Uproar Over Georgia Voting Law

Jay Inslee Decries ‘Horrendous Surge’ Of Violence Against Asian Americans

For Asian American Women, Misogyny And Racism Are Inseparable, Sociologist Says

‘Enough Is Enough’: Georgia Shootings Spur Debate Over Hate Crime Label

What We Know So Far About The Victims Of The Atlanta-Area Shootings

8 People, Most Asian Women, Shot Dead At Atlanta-Area Massage Parlors; Man Arrested

Georgia District Attorney Is Investigating Trump’s Call To Overturn Election

Baby Rose Goes Vintage, Unadulterated, ‘Almost Otherworldly’ At NPR’s Tiny Desk

Rising Appalachia Shines, Shows They’re ‘Resilient,’ Displays American Roots At NPR’s Tiny Desk

Amid Shutdown, Martin Luther King Jr. National Park Reopens For Holiday, Thanks To A Private Grant