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The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has apologized after a video was posted online showing a Sikh student who was handcuffed for carrying a kirpan, a religious article that resembles a knife. A statement released Friday, signed by the chancellor, Sharon L. Gaber, and Brandon L. Wolfe, the school's chief diversity officer, said that university police had received a 911 call on Thursday that someone was in the student union with a knife. “During this interaction, the individual was pla

The North Face is dropping the word “sherpa” from the name of its fleece jackets this fall, using the opportunity to highlight the heritage of the Sherpa people. The collection, which was called sherpa fleece jackets and vests, will now be called “pile” fleece, as will all of the company's fleece products moving forward. “We’ve recognized the origins of the term ‘sherpa’ and how it’s been applied to the fashion industry,” Eric Raymond, director of social impact for The North Face, told NBC New

A viral dance trend on TikTok that’s caught on with everyone from “RushTok” pledges to Jimmy Fallon is based on an unexpected beat — the song “Kala Chashma,” which started in a small Punjab village and made its way to Bollywood. The song, which was a part of the soundtrack for the 2016 Bollywood movie “Baar Baar Dekho,” also has an unexpected lyricist — Amrik Singh Shera, a Punjab police constable who was just 15 when he wrote the song in 1990. Originally written and performed in Punjabi, the s

Supporters of Mehmet Oz — the Donald Trump-backed Republican Senate nominee in Pennsylvania — are going after Oz’s Democratic opponent John Fetterman with a new series of attack ads. The new spots, which are part of a $500,000 ad campaign from the pro-Oz group American Leadership Action, criticize Fetterman for a 2013 incident in which he pulled a gun on a Black jogger and detained him after mistakenly believing he had committed a crime. Unsurprisingly, the 30-second version of the ad started a

Netflix’s “Squid Game” won six Emmy Awards, with a historic win for the show’s star, Lee Jung-jae. Lee, who plays protagonist Seong Gi-hun, took home the award Monday for outstanding lead actor in a drama series, making him the first Asian man to win the award and the first to win it for a non-English show, The Associated Press reported. “Thank you to director Hwang for making a realistic problem we all face come to life so gracefully on the screen,” he said during his acceptance speech. “To

After the death of Queen Elizabeth II last week, online users are calling for the British government to surrender artifacts obtained by the British Empire, including the Kohinoor diamond — one of the most famous diamonds in the world. Conversations about the diamond — also spelled Koh-i-noor — which is part of the British crown jewels, have been trending on social media amid coverage of the queen’s death, with users posting their opinions about the empire — and memes about stealing the diamond

Three people of Asian descent were threatened with a knife and attacked with a brick in a suspected anti-Asian hate crime in Washington, D.C., last week, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. The suspect approached the three people after midnight on Aug. 18. The suspect asked them to speak with him, according to the police report. He allegedly became upset after they ignored him and began yelling anti-Asian slurs before telling them to go back to their country. The three people, all

A bride and her father have danced their way into the internet’s heart after a video of their routine at her wedding went viral. The video, which has garnered more than 40 million views on TikTok, shows Brittany Revell and her father, Kelly, decked out in sneakers and formal wear, dancing to the song “Teach Me How to Dougie” by Cali Swag District. Brittany, 30, who lives in San Diego, said the dance was a part of their “dance through the decades” performance, which also included moves like the

In season three of Mindy Kaling’s Netflix series “Never Have I Ever,” which drops Friday, Devi Vishwakumar has hit her stride in school, but one problem threatens to blow it all: her sense of self-worth. The South Asian American who is a 11th grader in Sherman Oaks, California, grapples with new romantic relationships, balancing cultural expectations and the opinions of her peers while continuing to grieve the loss of her father. Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, 20, who plays Devi, told NBC Asian Americ

Pardeep Kaleka lost his father 10 years ago when a gunman with ties to white supremacist groups opened fire in a Wisconsin gurdwara, killing six people. But he says he found an unlikely and controversial way to deal with his grief — reaching out to a former white supremacist. The two men have spoken out against hate together at events, as the Sikh community continues to heal a decade after the deadly rampage. On Aug. 5, 2012, the gunman, Wade Michael Page, who had ties to white supremacist org

If you’ve been online in the last week, chances are you’ve seen them: Little multicolored blobs with smiling faces doing some kind of gesture, with the text “Little Miss” or “Little Mr." prominently featured above them. But what are these illustrations, and why are they suddenly all over the internet? The art is from the "Mr. Men" and "Little Miss" children's book series, created in 1971 and 1981 respectively by the British author Roger Hargreaves. Decades later, Hargreaves' characters are bei

A California highway in the San Francisco Bay Area now bears the name of late Filipina civil rights activist Alice Peña Bulos, known as the “godmother of Filipino American politics.” Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, who sponsored the resolution to rename a portion of State Route 35 in Bulos’ honor, shared the unveiling of the highway signs in Daly City, just south of San Francisco, on Saturday. The Alice Peña Bulos Memorial Freeway will cover approximately 4 miles, according to the re

A New York man was indicted this week on hate crime charges after prosecutors claim he attacked two women of Korean descent in a New York City subway station. Derrick Johnson, 40, allegedly threw an unidentified liquid at two women entering the Rockefeller Plaza subway station on May 8, then yelled anti-Asian remarks and spat at one of them, according to court documents filed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Johnson is charged with two counts of third-degree assault as a hate crime

“Squid Game,” Netflix’s hit South Korean series, made history once again after becoming the first non-English series nominated for the Emmys’ outstanding drama series category Tuesday. Netflix confirmed the accolade and congratulated the series and individual nominations for the cast. The series was also nominated in 13 other categories, including outstanding lead actor in a drama series for Lee Jung-jae; outstanding directing for a drama series for “Red Light, Green Light,” the first episode;

A month after "Ms. Marvel" was released and after a flood of negative reviews, the show is now the highest-rated Marvel project on Rotten Tomatoes — higher than "Black Panther" and "Avengers: Endgame." Sana Amanat, the co-creator and executive producer of the Marvel Disney+ series and comics, said she wasn’t surprised by the initial backlash, which she also saw when the comics were first released in 2013. “I think it comes from a place of anger and a sense that their identities are being threa

A new virtual exhibition explores the identity of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar living in the world’s largest refugee camp, through the lens of Rohingya photographers.

(contributed) HONG KONG — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday defended the “one country, two systems” form of governance in Hong Kong in a rare visit to the Chinese territory amid a deepening authoritarian crackdown by Beijing.

Hong Kong had been a British colony since 1841, when it was occupied by British forces during the first Opium War. China’s Qing Dynasty signed it over to the British the following year in the Treaty of Nanjing, the first in a series of what China now calls the “unequal treaties.” Under the terms of the Sino-British Joint Declaration signed in 1984, Hong Kong was to return to Chinese sovereignty as a special administrative region governed by a principle known as “one country, two systems.” The f

The remains of a U.S. Navy destroyer escort that sank in a World War II battle against Japan have been found in what is believed to be the deepest wreck ever discovered.

It’s unlikely that one Japanese man will join his colleagues for after-work drinks again following their last night out, when officials said he lost a USB stick containing the personal data of nearly a half-million people. The man, who has not been named, transferred the data Tuesday and then went to a restaurant with three of his colleagues at Biprogy Inc., Yuji Takeuchi, the president of the company’s Kansai branch, told a news conference Friday. The USB contained the home addresses and bank

State Rep. Bee Nguyen is the Democratic nominee for secretary of state in Georgia after winning a runoff primary, NBC News projects. Nguyen easily beat out former state Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler, the other top vote-getter to emerge from the primary last month, on Tuesday. Nguyen, the first Vietnamese American to serve in the Georgia General Assembly, will face GOP incumbent Brad Raffensperger in November. Raffensperger won a tough primary election last month after being targeted by former Presi

Japan has made online insults punishable by up to a year in prison in an effort to reduce cyberbullying after the death of a reality television star who had faced a wave of online abuse. Previously, the maximum penalty for the crime of “insultation” was less than 30 days’ detention or a fine of less than 10,000 yen ($75). The amendment to Japan’s penal code, which lawmakers passed Monday and is set to take effect this summer, introduces the prison term and increases the maximum fine to 300,000

President Joe Biden signed a law Monday that lays the foundation for a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture. “Today, I’m honored to sign into law something that is long overdue — the National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture, here in Washington, D.C.,” Biden said. The law creates the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act, which will research and submit a plan that would esta

Netflix teased a new round of both fear and excitement with a trailer for its hit Korean drama series “Squid Game” and a statement from its creator. The streaming platform tweeted the 10-second teaser Sunday, along with an announcement from Hwang Dong-hyuk, the creator, writer, director and executive producer of the series. “It took 12 years to bring the first season of ‘Squid Game’ to life last year. But it took 12 days for ‘Squid Game’ to become the most popular Netflix series ever,” he wrot