After Atlanta, Allyship And Community Are How We Move Forward

<p>The advocacy group <a href="https://stopaapihate.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stop AAPI Hate</a> had already documented more than 3,000 anti-Asian incidents of racism before the Atlanta murders. Worse, the March 16 murders of eight spa workers - six of them Asian women - did not stem the tide of anti-Asian racist animus. Instead, the reported episodes of physical and verbal assaults spiked. Now, Asian Americans and allies are pushing for increased awareness and demanding legal protections. <br> <br> Is this recent spate of racist attacks against Asians, history repeating itself? And after years of xenophobia amplified by COVID 19, which way forward? <br> <br> Guests:<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/CeeLei?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cecilia Lei</a> – associate producer for Vox’s “Today, Explained,” and board president of the Asian American Journalists Association's San Francisco chapter. <br> <br> <a href="https://amst.umd.edu/faculty/janelle-wong/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Janelle Wong</a> – professor of American Studies and core faculty member in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. <br> <br> Rev. Young Ghil Lee – senior pastor at <a href="https://kcboston.org/ministry/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Korean Church of Boston</a>.</p> <p><strong>Later in the Show:</strong></p> <p>How do the Americans who live in small towns and cities see the places they live? Thousands of residents eagerly answered that question, posed by award-winning Atlantic magazine journalist James Fallows. <br> <br> Fallows and his wife Deborah traveled across the country for five years, visiting with local residents. What the Fallows documented in their travels resulted in a 2019 book, “<a href="https://bookshop.org/books/our-towns-a-100-000-mile-journey-into-the-heart-of-america/9780525432449" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America</a>.” Eight of the towns and cities