article_snippet.sent: (CNN)On Thursday, NPR -- headquartered in Washington, just 40 miles away from Baltimore -- ran its latest update on the urban turmoil that has erupted in the wake of the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray because of still-unexplained spinal injuries that occurred while 25-year-old Freddie Gray was under police custody.
article_snippet.sent: Titled "Baltimore Unrest Reveals Tensions Between African-Americans And Asians," the five-minute piece is urgently introduced with the promise that the five-minute piece will reveal "what's really happening in the more troubled neighborhoods of this majority black city," going on state that a key ingredient of the unrest was African-Americans "targeting Asian-owned businesses for destruction.
article_snippet.sent: A similar claim was made after Ferguson's uprising in August of last year.
article_snippet.sent: Indeed, A similar claim has been a toxic feature of the coverage of many episodes of mass metropolitan violence since the late 1980s, the era during which the trope of widespread hostility between Asian and black communities first took root in the media consciousness.
article_snippet.sent: As Jennifer Lee, sociology professor at University of California, Irvine, and author of the 2002 book "Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews and Koreans in Urban America," notes, "the mainstream media continues to pit minority groups against one another to draw attention from larger structural problems that plague poor, disadvantaged communities.
article_snippet.sent: For example, in 1993, the robbery and shooting of Joel Lee, a 21-year-old Korean American at Towson State University, and the subsequent acquittal of his killer, was a point of contention between the Korean and African American communities.
article_snippet.sent: The population of Baltimore has shrunk and The population of Baltimore economy has contracted.
article_snippet.sent: For example, the Baltimore-based Korean-American Grocers & Licensed Beverage Association of Maryland, founded in 1995, has worked to support the Baltimore-based Korean-American Grocers & Licensed Beverage Association of Maryland, founded in 1995 entrepreneurial members in its entrepreneurial members own attempts to address longstanding issues of neglect and abuse by Baltimore's police, while also encouraging its entrepreneurial members to build deeper ties with its entrepreneurial members constituents.
article_snippet.sent: Back in 1995, the Baltimore Sun profiled Soon Jae and Eun Ja Lee, owners of Lee's Food Market in the West Baltimore's Sandtown neighborhood -- the same part of the city that NPR called out as a locus of Asian-black tension.
highlights_snippet.sent: The media has a misconception about urban unrest in light of Baltimore turmoil .
  