The Nation - Limary Ruiz Torres, a 51-year-old accountant in Lawrenceville, Ga., was eager to vote in this year’s presidential primary. But when Torres, who was raised in Puerto Rico and speaks limited English, received her mail-in ballot application in April, she felt shut out. “I cannot read the a...
Houston Chronicle - Nhat Nguyen stood Sunday morning on a sidewalk on Bellaire Boulevard with a bullhorn in one hand and phone in the other. “Go Trump!” he shouted while live-streaming to Facebook a parade of honking cars bedecked in Trump flags. Trucks blasted music from open windows as they cruise...
Nevada Independent - The familiar rhythm of the festivals has been absent this year.
The Japanese spring festival in April. The Indian food festival in May. Filipino kamayan feasts in the fall.
Like so many other events this year, festivals across Asian American and Pacific Islander communities ha...
Newsweek - Republican President Donald Trump seems to have deleted a tweet posted Monday evening at 5:54 pm E.T. which called COVID-19 “the Chinese virus” and inadvertently included the email address of New York Post writer Miranda Devine.
The tweets, with Devine’s email address removed, quoted som...
Sampan - With the 2020 presidential election approaching, political participation and civic engagement are more crucial than ever. According to the Pew Research Center, Asian Americans are the fastest growing body of eligible voters out of the United States’ major ethnic and racial groups. In the Gr...
Broadway World - Greater Boston Stage Company will present Empress Mei Li Lotus Blossom, written by the Obie Award winning Christine Toy Johnson, this will be a five day only virtual event. . .
The entire process from auditions through rehearsals to performance has been conducted via Zoom, a new ex...
City Limits - New voter registration across New York City has dropped by nearly half in 2020 compared to the last presidential election year in 2016.
Between January and June, only about 80,000 people registered to vote across the city, compared to 155,000 people during the same period in 2016, acc...
Dallas Morning News - In late March, a man walked up to OMG Tacos, an Asian fusion restaurant in Richardson. The restaurant had closed its doors earlier that month and was operating through a makeshift service window.
‘Hey, do you have the coronavirus?’ he asked. The employee handling his order was...
NBC News - Before Sen. Kamala Harris broke historic barriers in the ivory halls of Congress, and now on the Democratic presidential ticket, she dug into her heritage on Howard University’s campus, one of the most prestigious historically Black colleges in the country.
“She was well-steeped in her h...
NorthJersey.com - Karan Virmani’s inbox starts filling at 7 a.m. with emails from New Jersey residents of South Asian descent eager to help Democrat Joe Biden’s campaign for president.
It’s been this way since the former vice president selected California Sen. Kamala Harris — whose mother, Shyamala...
MarketWatch - It was Oct. 3, 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act that abolished the so-called National Origins Formula, giving to Asian Americans, among other minorities, the right to become U.S. citizens after years of tension and discrimination, particula...
Axios - When Democrats next week formally nominate the daughter of an Indian immigrant to be vice president, it’ll be perhaps the biggest leap yet in the Indian American community’s rapid ascent into a powerful political force.
Why it matters: Indian Americans are one of the fastest-growing, wealth...
WXYZ-TV - With Senator Kamala Harris picked to be Joe Biden’s running mate, what does this mean for one of the fastest-growing voting ethnic groups?
Experts say Asian-American voters will have a large presence in this year’s presidential election.
Harris represents two groups of voters, the Black ...
Rafu Shimpo - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS) came out with a verdict on Aug. 4 that ruled in favor of Isamu Carlos “Art” Shibayama and the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project (JPOHP). . .
Phil Tajitsu Nash, who had submitted a l...
The City - New Yorkers looking for a mail-in copy of the state voter registration form or any assistance at all in registering to vote during the pandemic won’t get any direct answers from the state Board of Elections’ dedicated hotline.
The number —800-367-8683 — is answered with a recorded messag...
AALDEF Executive Director Margaret Fung (#28) was named by City & State NY as one of the 100 most influential Asian Americans in New York politics and policy:
Asian Americans are a rising political force. In 2013, Grace Meng became New York’s first Asian American representative in Congress. While J...
Newsweek - San Francisco bus driver was attacked by three passengers while he was trying to enforce the city’s mask requirement onboard a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) bus last week.
The driver was operating the bus on the afternoon of July 22 in the South of Market district...
Newsweek - White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday said the American people are growing tired of the politics surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.
Navarro appeared on Fox News Monday morning to discuss vaccine development efforts for the virus, which he repeatedly called “the China virus...
Newsweek - In a CNN interview on Tuesday evening, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred to the COVID-19 coronavirus as the “Trump virus”, laying the blame for rising infection rates on the “inaction” of Republican President Donald Trump.
Pelosi’s comment came immediately after Trump held h...
Broadsheet Daily - A recent hearing before the Appellate Division court of New York’s First Judicial Department indicates that the controversial plan to erect four massive new towers in the Two Bridges neighborhood on Lower Manhattan’s East River waterfront may yet come to fruition.
In February, th...
