This month marks 10 years since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
NationalBeatrice Chen, executive director of Immigrant Social Services, walks by the garden of the Senior Living Chung Pak complex, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in New York.
Asian American staffers responded with regret, renewed their alignment with their Black colleagues and vowed to “lead out.” The events roused a younger generation of Asian Americans who had never been part of any high-stakes movement. The ripples from those experiences were felt again in the wake of George Floyd's murder and pandemic-driven anti-Asian hate. Today, many Asian American and Pacific Islanders continue to speak out not just for themselves, but for other groups.
In December 2014, Beatrice Chen, then a programming director at the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan, responded to Brown and Garner's deaths by organizing a panel on the history of race and police brutality through the lens of current events. Panelists included journalists and social justice advocates as well as college-age activists. Chen remembers the evening was well attended, proving the issues weighed heavily.
“Their cultural historical reference is still Asia. They still read the Chinese newspapers. They don’t necessarily read the mainstream or English media. And then you have the younger generation, who I think come out of a different societal view on race,” Chen said. “I saw some of the 20-something activists really trying to explain and interpret and translate into Chinese ‘Black Lives Matter.’”
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