Salon - President Donald Trump referred to COVID-19 as “the Chinese virus” on Tuesday, prompting critics to accuse him not only of “a mean spirited distraction” but also intensifying racism and xenophobia. . .
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Margaret Fung, executive director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Educatio...
Gothamist - As anxiety over the spread of COVID-19 continues to mount in NYC, officials say there has been an alarming uptick in racist and xenophobic attacks on Asian-Americans. . .
Choi, 26, was commuting home to Suffolk County when he stopped in a bathroom at Penn Station around 7 p.m. on Wednes...
Slate - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has so far resisted calls to apologize for a racist tweet that referred to COVID-19 as the “Chinese coronavirus.”
Monday’s tweet promoted a link about the virus from the Centers for Disease Control’s website alongside this comment: “Everything...
Dallas Morning News: After winning 10 states on Super Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden made the case that he was the one who could appeal to a broad base of Democrats searching for a presidential candidate who can unite them. . .
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While advocates gripe about when presidential ...
Salon - Fox News host Jesse Watters was roundly criticized for making the racist claim that the coronavirus outbreak was caused by Chinese people “eating raw bats and snakes.”
“Let me tell you why it happened in China: They have these markets where they were eating raw bats and snakes,” Watters sai...
Curbed New York - Scan the Lower East Side waterfront and the first thing you’re likely to spot is a 72-story skyscraper known as One Manhattan Square jutting high above the neighborhood.
It may appear conspicuously misplaced among the area’s low-slung apartment buildings and public housing complex...
Politico - Donald Trump’s campaign has launched a five-figure digital ad buy targeting an unlikely voting demographic for Republicans: Indian Americans.
It’s likely the first time a Republican presidential candidate has spent a large amount of money on ads tailored for Indian American voters, accor...
New York Daily News - The L in LES doesn’t stand for luxury. A state judge barred a developer from building four high-rise towers that had been set to offer hundreds of pricey apartments.
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“Today is a major victory for our clients, neighborhood activists and Two Bridges residents,” said Ken Kim...
New York Law Journal - More than 500 people attended the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) Lunar New Year Gala held at Pier Sixty in Chelsea Piers on Feb. 6. William Lee, second from left, partner at WilmerHale, and Viet Thanh Nguyen, second from right, author of the Pulitzer ...
NBC News - A social media post spread through the Barnard College and Columbia University campuses on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, quickly garnering hundreds of comments and shares earlier this month.
In it, a Chinese student at Barnard who had self-quarantined herself as a precaution against the c...
NBC News - Immigration policy and data disaggregation were among the topics that Democratic presidential candidates were challenged on during a historic Twitter town hall focused on Asian American and Pacific Islander issues Thursday. . . .
An informal survey of 500 voters across Virginia, Texas an...
Texas Tribune - With a population greater than that of 26 states, speaking more than 145 languages, Harris County can be a difficult place to make oneself heard. That’s especially true at the ballot box. . .
Following a dust-up last year during which translators crossed the protected zone to approa...
NBC News - Asian Americans appear to currently favor Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren when it comes to the Democratic presidential candidates, according to a recent informal survey by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Andrew Yang, who’s Taiwanese American, still lags behind.
The gr...
News India Times - The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released preliminary results of its nonpartisan exit poll of more than 500 Asian American voters in the Nov. 5, 2019 elections in Virginia, Texas, and Pennsylvania.
In Virginia, a state that turned Blue from Red, giving...
Washington Post - President Trump — and his views on immigration, Muslims and foreign affairs — isn’t popular with Indian Americans. That’s not likely to change much, so why did Trump travel to Houston over the weekend to appear with the recently reelected Indian prime minister before thousands of t...
New York Times - President Trump played second fiddle on Sunday to Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, at a boisterous cultural rally in which the American president was technically just an invited guest.
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Indian-Americans have supported both Democrats and Republicans in the past, thoug...
Politico - HOUSTON — It wasn’t your typical Trump campaign rally. Instead of red Make America Great Again hats, there were turbans and Islamic caps. Women in traditional Indian garb danced to bhangra drums. And tens of thousands of cheering Indian Americans chanted “USA!” and snapped photos.
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Agence France-Presse - President Donald Trump will join Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a massive gathering of Indian-Americans in Houston, the White House said Sunday, in a symbolic show of the bond between the two leaders and countries.
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Some 84 percent of Indian-Americans voted in 2016 for h...
Associated Press - When Amanda Berg heard reports that President Donald Trump mocked the accents of the leaders of South Korea and Japan at a recent fundraiser, it brought back painful memories from her childhood.
Berg, a Korean American who grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado, recalled kids doing th...
