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A sign that reads "STORE FOR RENT," alongside a phone number, hangs over a store with a closed metal shutter, the latter which has unreadable graffiti painted over it. This picture was most likely taken in Chinatown in New York City.

Vacant storefront with for rent signs.

Black and white photograph showing a person behind a table with clipboards and paper while others write on clipboards in the background.

people at a street protest carrying signs and banners: “NYPD: [...]”, “Asians for Racial Justice”, “[...] Police Officers punch, kick, & sexually abuse Latina [...]”, “[...] Police Abuse Against Lesbians and Gays up 50% from 1996.”

people at a street protest carrying signs and banners: “Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence New York City”, “War Resiste[rs] League”, “John Tan”, “[Les]bians for [...] Justice”

The poster reads "Struggle 4 just & meaningful change"

On March 13, 1996, twelve demonstrators took over the office of Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes to demand justice for the police brutality cases involving Yong Xin Huong and Anibal Carrasquillo Jr. The sit-in called for Hynes to indict NYPD Officers…

Members of CAAAV and the family of Yong Xin Huang joined for a memorial march in Manhattan Chinatown the day before what would have been his 17th birthday. Yong Xin Huang was a teenager shot and killed by the police in Brooklyn while playing outside…

A large group gathers for a tenants meeting.

Tenants and their children talk around a table at a tenants' meeting. Notes about muggings are written on a large paper hanging on a bulletin board.