NBC News - More than 150 years since the first Chinatowns emerged in the United States, Asian American neighborhoods across the country continue to thrive as cultural hubs that also provide spaces for new immigrants to gain a foothold in American society.
While the legal segregation that once defin
Huffington Post - As the future of the 2020 census’ citizenship question is under debate in the Supreme Court, several Asian American groups have attempted to push back on the possibility.
Earlier this month, more than 60 bar associations and Asian American civil rights groups filed an amicus brief
Filipino Reporter - On April 1, 2019, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing the addition of a proposed citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
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Filipino Reporter - On March 27, 2019, more than 650 people attended the 45th anniversary gala of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian-Americans.
The gala, held at Pier Sixty, Chelse
New York Times - The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund celebrated its 45th anniversary on March 27 at Pier Sixty. Michael C. Wu, left, an honoree, with Samuel S. Choy. (photo by Nina Westervelt for The New York Times)
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New York Law Journal - The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) celebrated its 45th Anniversary on Wednesday, March 27 at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers.
AALDEF presents Justice in Action awards annually to individuals for their outstanding achievements and contributions to social
Broadway World…On March 27, more than 650 people attended the 45th anniversary gala of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans…
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NY 1 - Community members fighting four high-rise towers on the “Two Bridges” waterfront are now taking their fight to court.
Tenants represented by the Asian American Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the city’s approval of the Two Bridges towers.
They are worried the city’s approval of t
Gothamist - A coalition of Lower East Side and Chinatown community groups are suing the city to stop a multi-billion dollar mega development of four high-rise towers that some locals fear will greatly exacerbate gentrification. “It’s the people versus the city of big real estate,” Zishun Ning, an ac
Curbed New York - A coalition of community groups have followed through on their pledge to sue the city in order to block three contested towers from rising in the Two Bridges neighborhood.
Lower East Side Organized Neighbors, Chinese Staff & Workers’ Association, and other activist groups are fili
Bowery Boogie - Three months after first leveling the threats, the Lower East Side Organized Neighbors (LESON) has filed a lawsuit to stop four new towers (as part of three developments) from sprouting on the Two Bridges waterfront. The community organization partnered with the Asian American Legal
American Prospect - On Wednesday in Boston, U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs heard closing arguments in the controversial affirmative action lawsuit, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The case has been widely reported as dividing the Asian American community, but some of Harvard’s Asi
Fortune - For celebrants around the world, today starts the Lunar New Year, a party which includes the largest annual wave of human migration. This year, about a billion people are expected to be making a traditional pilgrimage, often back to their family homes to eat, light fireworks, and ring in t
The Atlantic - LOS ANGELES—As a new immigrant to the United States, Li Zhong Huang knew there was only one place he wanted to live: the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, where he could be surrounded by language, food, and people from his home province of Guangdong. In 2001, he found an apartmen
NBC News - As a federal judge continues to weigh the case against Harvard’s race-conscious admissions, supporters on both sides are speaking up.
This week, opposing advocacy groups and academics filed rival briefs — one side arguing that a federal judge should find that Harvard discriminates agains
News India Times - Indian American Vanita Gupta, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights will be recognized with the 2019 Justice in Action Award by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), at their 45th Anniversary on Wednesd
Texas Tribune - Amid last-minute efforts to overhaul the state’s voter identification law in light of an ongoing legal fight, the Texas Legislature gaveled out without addressing another embattled election law that’s now moving forward in federal court.
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thur
NBC News - Dona Kim Murphey volunteered for the first time this year as a Korean-language interpreter, helping out at an early voting day in late October in Harris County, Texas…
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/federal-law-allows-nearly-anyone-translate-voters-polls-it-can-n949056
Kings County Politics - City Council Member Mark Treyger (D-Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Coney Island, Gravesend, Sea Gate) and a broad coalition of elected officials, advocacy organizations, and leaders from communities across the city rallied outside City Hall today, calling for increased interpreter
Huffington Post - Data show that Asian-Americans are continuing to trend left. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) recently released its exit poll from last week’s midterm elections, which included responses from more than 7,600 Asian-Americans who voted. The survey found th
