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By Nigel Henderson JRN100 Staff Writer  Momentum and support for Black Lives Matter has declined since its peak in 2020 due to lacking support, media coverage, and fatigue from the ongoing issue. A study titled, “ Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement Has Dropped Considerably from its Peak in 2020 , ” explains some of reasons and trends on why this particular situation is happening in the movement. The study was published on June 14, 2023, by pew researchers Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Kiley Hurst and Dana Braga. “Today, 51% of U.S. adults say they support the Black Lives Matter movement, a decrease from 56% a year ago. The share who say they strongly support the movement dropped from 26% in 2022 to 22% in the new survey,” according to the report. Later on, the study talks about the lack of support from different ethnicities.  “The decrease in overall support is mostly due to the declining share of White adults who say they support the movement. The shares of Black an...

  Hiding Heritage:   The Fading Asian American Identity By Audrey Sears JRN 100 News Reporter   When Filipina American Kristine Din attended an all-girls’ Catholic high school in Connecticut, she bore the brunt of comments and jokes from her peers for years.     Bringing a traditional Filipino dish for lunch one day, Din faced judgement for her heritage in the white-dominated school.   “There was this one time I was eating pancit, and this girl said it looked like I was eating worms. At 15 years old, I didn’t even get angry, just confused. I kept thinking, ‘Well, what do your noodles look like?’” said Din.     Din’s experience is not uncommon. Many Asian Americans report facing hostility and anti-racial comments on a daily basis, according to a 2016 article in the Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Journal .     To cope with or mitigate confrontations about their heritage, many have turned to hiding their culture and tradi...