Photos From NYC's Stop Asian Hate Rally in Chinatown
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Photos From NYC's Stop Asian Hate Rally in Chinatown

Story by Sandra Song / Photography by Andrew Boyle

As the nation continues to reckon with the tragedy of the recent Atlanta spa shootings, Asian-Americans and their allies took to the streets this past weekend to stand against a troubling rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. Pushing against the official police narrative that the murders weren't racially motivated, protesters across the country marched to remember the eight people — six of whom were Asian women — who unnecessarily lost their lives as a result of xenophobic Othering and anti-sex work rhetoric.

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In NYC alone, hundreds of demonstrators walked from Chinatown to Times Square on Sunday to support the shooting victims, call for an end to Asian hate, and uplift the Asian-American community amid these kinds of violent attacks. Because unfortunately, the Atlanta attacks don't exist in a vacuum, seeing as the organization Stop AAPI Hate said there were more than 3,800 reported attacks against Asian-Americans nationwide last year.

But as many New Yorkers showed us yesterday, we can continue to stand in solidarity together and advocate for a stop to Asian hate. So learn more about what you can do, here, and see photos from the protests, below.

Photography: Andrew Boyle

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