College Community Shows Solidarity in Stop Asian Hate Rally

Header photo courtesy of Jess Li ’24. A Stop Asian Hate rally following the recent Atlanta spa shootings was held on Saturday, March 27 in front of Porter and Garman House. The gathering of Amherst students, staff and faculty was part of a larger public rally organized primarily by two graduate students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which took place across the street in the Town Common. The rally was dedicated to  Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women who face racism a

In Response to Atlanta Spa Shootings, Asian Students Grieve, Mobilize and Call for Action

The killing of eight people, six of whom were Asian women, on March 16 in a series of three mass shootings in Atlanta, Georgia devastated the college’s Asian and Asian American community. In an email sent the following day, President Biddy Martin condemned the attacks, offering resources and support to community members. But with the letter coming almost a year after anti-Asian racism during the pandemic first made it to the forefront of campus consciousness [https://amherststudent.com/article/a