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...
Philly.com - Twenty-three owners of neighborhood Chinese restaurants in Philadelphia have filed a federal lawsuit alleging “invidious discrimination against certain Chinese people and their Chinese take-out restaurant businesses in Philadelphia,” through the passage and enforcement of the city’s “11...
Texas Standard - Korean American groups in Houston are raising concerns about the availability of translation services when voting. They met with Harris County officials early this week to try to find a solution before Election Day on Tuesday, November 6…
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/news-...
U.S. News and World Report - A federal judge in Boston is scheduled to hear closing arguments Friday in a highly publicized lawsuit alleging that elite Harvard discriminates against Asian-Americans.
Much of the spotlight has been on affluent Chinese-Americans with stellar academic scores who say th...
NBC News - Immigrant rights groups and attorneys Tuesday blasted President Donald Trump’s declared intention to end birthright citizenship with an executive order as a political ploy before the midterm elections…
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigrant-rights-groups-blast-trump-s-call-end-bir...
Courthouse News Service - An affirmative action case against Harvard University finally went to trial Monday, four years after a lawsuit was filed claiming the nation’s oldest college discriminates against prospective Asian-American students by considering race in the admissions process.
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Washington Post — In its latest push to end the use of race in college admissions, the Trump administration on Thursday accused Harvard University of “engaging in outright racial balancing” and sided with Asian-American students who allege the Ivy League school discriminated against them. Harvard de...
Harvard Gazette - More than 500 social scientists, 16 statisticians and economists, numerous Asian American organizations, Harvard student and alumni groups and coalitions, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund filed briefs on Thursday in support...
Gotham Gazette - The New York City Charter Revision Commission called by Mayor Bill de Blasio convened on Tuesday afternoon to collect expert testimony on ways to foster increased participation in municipal elections…
https://www.gothamgazette.com/city/7733-mayoral-charter-revision-commission-hears...
Longview News-Journal - The Committee of
100 (C100), with United Chinese Americans (UCA), the Ohio Chinese American Association (OCAA) and nine additional community groups, demand justice for civil servant Sherry Chen. These organizations express concern over the Department of Commerce’s June 18, 2...
Huffington Post - Korean-Americans have been speaking out against a New Jersey mayor’s mother after she made racist comments.
Holding posters and American flags, hundreds of people rallied in the city of Palisades Park on Sunday, after Lorraine Rotundo, mayor James Rotundo’s mother, posted racist F...
The Grio - Nicki Minaj fans will have to wait a little longer for rapper to drop her much-anticipated album. Minaj took to Instagram in a live post and announced that her new album, Queen, is being pushed back to August 10, and won’t be released June 15, as previously expected.
https://thegrio.com/2...
KPBS - With the California primary two weeks away, “get out the vote” operations are underway, and founders of a newly launched organization are targeting an ethnic group they feel is overlooked.
Viet Vote aims to boost civic engagement among San Diego’s Vietnamese community, one of the largest in ...
New York Times - The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund also held a Lunar New Year gala, on Feb. 15 at Pier 60. This year’s honorees, from left: Chan Lee; Linda Greenhouse, a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times; and Preet Bharara. (Photo by Rebecca Smeyne)
https://www.nyti...
Huffington Post - One snowy winter day, after standing at his restaurant job washing dishes, Jinlong Chen came home to the apartment that he and his wife shared with several other families on Beach Street in Boston’s Chinatown….
Joongang Ilbo - The Korean Service Center (KCS) and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will hold immigration briefing sessions on the 24th at Bayside Community Center…
Global Times - Negotiations between the White House and Congress regarding the future of the so-called Dreamers have left many in the Chinese community unnerved. The Dreamers - immigrants who were brought to the US illegally when they were children…
India West - The New Jersey elections site has expanded its reach by now featuring a Gujarati language option.This year during the November general election, the state’s Division of Elections began publishing candidate statements…
