NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There has been an alarming rise in attacks against Asian Americans over the past year.
As more people offer support for this diverse community, there are two high-profile celebrities who’ve been fighting for change for decades, CBS2’s Cindy Hsu reported Monday.
In the last year, nearly 4,000 Asian hate incidents were reported nationwide. But there’s a long history of anti-Asian violence in the U.S.
Hsu spoke with Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, who was stabbed in the neck in Brooklyn five years ago while walking home from the grocery store.
“Turned out that the attacker had severed my vertebral artery. I’d lost about a third of my blood,” Hwang said. “But I was out of the hospital in about three or four days. So I was a lot more fortunate than many attack victims.”