Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old black man, was fatally shot on November 20, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, by a New York City Police Department...
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the city of Ferndale, Michigan, erected a milestone marker at the intersection of Woodward Avenue and 9 Mile Road in memorial of the killing of Chin. Chin's...
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violations in 2015. Following an NYPD accidental killing of unarmed Pink Houses resident Akai Gurley in 2014, concerns were raised by city officials regarding...
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subsidiary of East West Bancorp, Inc. It is the largest publicly traded bank headquartered in Southern California, ranking 42nd on the list of largest banks...
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Stop-and-frisk in New York City (category Government of New York City)
contrast, 54.1% of the population of New York City in 2010 was African-American or Latino; however, 74.4% of individuals arrested overall were of those two...
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local Teochew-speaking population. In 1996, Academy Award-winning (for The Killing Fields in 1985) Cambodian refugee, physician and actor, Haing S. Ngor,...
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Chinese Exclusion Act (redirect from Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882)
migrants. The act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the U.S.–China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese...
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discusses Chinatowns in the Americas, urban areas with a large population of people of Chinese descent. The regions include: Canada, the United States, and...
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) Pacific Coast race riots of 1907 Bellingham riots (1907) Killing of Vincent Chin (1982) Killing of Akai Gurley (2016)...
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Chinatown, San Francisco (section Emergence of tourism)
Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia. It is also the oldest and largest of the four notable Chinese enclaves...
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