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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

MLB Moves All-Star Game From Atlanta Over Georgia’s New Voting Law

By NPR News April 3, 2021

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, pictured in January, on Friday said the organization unwaveringly supports "fair access to voting." Kevin D. Liles/AP

This summer's Major League Baseball Draft and the All-Star Game won't be held in Atlanta, MLB officials announced Friday. The withdrawal of the two events from the city in July is in response to Georgia's recently enacted voting restrictions, which critics, including President Biden, have denounced as "Jim Crow in the 21st century" because they say the legislation will Read More

Georgia Governor Signs Election Overhaul, Including Changes To Absentee Voting

By NPR News March 25, 2021

Voters stand in line to cast their ballots during the first day of early voting in the U.S. Senate runoffs at Lenora Park in Atlanta in December 2020. CREDIT: Tami Chappell/AFP via Getty Images

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday signed a massive overhaul of election laws, shortly after the Republican-controlled state legislature approved it. The bill enacts new limitations on mail-in voting, expands most voters' access to in-person early voting and caps a months-long battle over voting in a battleground state.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

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

By Scott Leadingham February 10, 2021

Georgia prosecutors are investigating whether former President Donald Trump's phone call to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the state's election results in Trump's favor broke state laws. CREDIT: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images

BY STEPHEN FOWLER The Fulton County District Attorney’s office has launched a criminal probe into former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn Georgia’s election results, including a call pressuring Republican […]Read More

Democrats Move Closer To Senate Control As Races Called For Two Georgia Democrats

By NPR News January 6, 2021

Raphael Warnock, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, speaks during a Nov. 15, 2020, campaign rally in Marietta, Ga., ahead of the Jan. 5, 2021 run-off election. As the head of the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Warnock did not shy away from impassioned sermons and forceful advocacy on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged. CREDIT: Brynn Anderson/AP

Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock, a pastor from Atlanta, defeated GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler after a bitter campaign. Warnock becomes the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from a Southern state.Read More

‘This Was A Scam’: In Recorded Call, Trump Pushed Georgia Elections Head To Overturn State’s Vote

By NPR News January 3, 2021

President Trump walks outside the White House

An angry President Trump pushed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to overturn the state's presidential results, and appeared to at least partly blame him for what could be lower turnout in Tuesday's runoff elections that will decide control of the U.S. Senate, according to a recording of a phone call obtained by Georgia Public Broadcasting Read More