Back to School Special: Who First Challenged School Segregation in Mississippi?

As elementary and high school students in Mississippi head back to school this month, they may not consider themselves lucky, but they are…

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellAugust 9, 2022Brown v. Board of Education, desegregated public schools, segregation, Mississippi Asian population, Jeu Gong Lum, Asian Americans, Chinese immigrant, Delta, grocery stores, Jim Crow, Katherine Gong Lum, Berda Lum Chan

A Mass Shooting Often Starts At Home Against a Woman

A new week, a new mass shooting. Just seven days after a gunman killed eight people in Atlanta, including six women of Korean or Chinese descent, another shooter killed 10 people in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellMarch 29, 2021domestic violence, abuse, women killed, Asian Americans, mass shooting, Atlanta, Boulder shooting, columbine, femicide, Rachel Louise Snyder, Violence against women act, the boyfriend loophole

Some Domestic Violence Takes Place Behind Two Sets of Closed Doors: At Home, In the Bedroom, In Secrecy

Since the mass shooting in Atlanta last week that killed six women of Asian descent, Asian Americans, especially women, are sick at heart, angry -- and afraid.