Asian Community

See the visual memoirs of immigrant artists at the Canton Museum of Art, and celebrate Asian culture in Cleveland’s AsiaTown. Here’s our weekly to-do list of ideas.

Growing stress over environmental issues is being called "eco-anxiety."

Pakistani American Shammas Malik is set to become Akron's first racial minority to serve as mayor.

Despite an overcount of Asian Americans across the country as a whole, advocates say several communities are still overlooked and lack engagement.

The collaboration kicked off last weekend with Innovation Day at Kent State University.

The Federal Trade Commission says 30 million people are impacted by noncompete agreements in the workplace. The agency is seeking to ban them.

Gov. Mike DeWine has announced a new, streamlined COVID-19 health order that continues requirements for wearing masks and social distancing in public but will ease rules for large outdoor gatherings; Gov. DeWine also says he's talking with schools about vaccinating 16 and 17-year-olds, with parental approval; a coalition of voting rights groups in Ohio is urging state officials and lawmakers to get moving now to lay the groundwork for redrawing congressional and legislative districts; and more stories.

Hundreds of people turned out for a “Stop Asian Hate” march in Cleveland’s AsiaTown Sunday afternoon; every Ohioan age 16 and up is now eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine; Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted is facing backlash for a tweet referring to the “Wuhan virus”; and more stories.

Hundreds stood in solidarity with people of Asian descent during the Stop Asian Hate gathering at the Freedom Center in downtown Cincinnati Sunday. There wasn't enough time for everyone who wanted to share their experience with anti-Asian racism to speak at the podium. But those who made it to the microphone said their children are mocked for having Asian features, they're blamed for the global spread of the COVID-19 virus, and they're sexualized or minimized by the "model minority" stereotype.

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