Raw Story - Fox News announced on Thursday that racial provocateur Jesse Watters would be the host of a new weekly hour-long show. In a statement, Fox News Programming EVP Suzanne Scott said that the “Watters’ World” segment…
News India Times - The Asian American Legal Defense Fund, a civil rights advocacy group for Asian Americans, has announced the names of the two recipients of its 2016* Justice in Action Awards, including civil rights activist Deepa Iyer…
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Newsweek - A case is headed to the Supreme Court in December that centers around Jack Phillips, the owner of the Colorado-based Masterpiece Cakeshop, who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding…
Asia Times - Campaign websites in US elections often use templates to create pages that appeal to constituencies such as Latinos and African Americans. The worst change a few words or phrases to fit the group being courted…
NBC News - Amid threats of voter intimidation, Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) nonpartisan groups have been training poll monitors across the country, teaching them what to look for to ensure no one is denied the right to vote on Election Day…
NBC News - With just two weeks to go before the general election, community nonprofits have been hard at work making sure Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters head to the polls on Nov. 8. From phone banks to door knocking…
Denton Record-Chronicle - Mallika Das, a U.S. citizen who was born in India, walked into a Williamson County polling place in 2014 eager to cast her ballot. Because she was not proficient in English and had found it difficult to vote in the past, Das brought her son…
Austin American-Statesman - Asian-Americans, the fastest-growing demographic group in Austin, are emerging as a factor in upcoming local elections, expected to vote in record numbers and becoming a force in political fundraising…
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New York Times - In a packed federal courtroom in Brooklyn on Friday, it was one-stop shopping for 262 New Yorkers: They became American citizens and registered to vote – all from their seats and just before the deadline…
Texas Tribune - Mallika Das, a U.S. citizen who was born in India, walked into a Williamson County polling place in 2014 eager to cast her ballot. Because she was not proficient in English and had found it difficult to vote in the past, Das brought her son…
Slate - Shahed Alam, dressed in a trim black suit, is pacing outside a marriage hall in Queens, talking to himself about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Inside, past an ivory-keyed grand piano, raindrop chandeliers, and an elegant staircase…
Media Matters - The president of the Asian American Journalists Association is heavily criticizing Fox News for airing a segment that “was rife with racist stereotypes.” Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor aired an October 3 segment…
Politico - Asian American groups and reporters are crying foul at Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters for a recent segment in which he visited Manhattan’s Chinatown. In the segment, which aired Monday night during “The O’Reilly Factor,”…
Mediaite - Earlier today, we told you about the new Jesse Watters video that has been causing a stir. We also told you that Bill O’Reilly himself admitted that Fox News would be getting a lot of “letters” over the clip, which featured Watters running through Chinatown..
CNBC - A Fox News segment that pokes fun at Asian stereotypes is causing outrage online, with many calling the piece racist.
On Monday, Fox News reporter Jesse Watters went to Chinatown in New York to interview people about the U.S. election for a segmenton “The O’Reilly Factor” called “Watters’ Wo...
Washington Post - The backlash to “Mail Order Family” was immediate. Word broke last week that NBC had purchased a half-hour comedy that “follows a widowed single father who orders a mail-order bride from the Philippines…
NBC News - The New York County Democratic Committee has reportedly reversed its decision late last month not to nominate an Asian-American state judge for reelection this fall, according to the New York Post…
Manhattan Express News - The New York County Democratic Party and its vaunted independent screening panel for approving judges for the ballot has come under scorching outrage for the panel’s refusal to recommend Justice Doris Ling-Cohan…
New York Observer - As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reiterated his plans to deport immigrants if elected president, a White House senior policy advisor and advocates for the Asian and Pacific Islander communities…
Yahoo News - Beth Vang grew up with a conflicted view of civic life. Vang, a 21-year-old college student, lives near St. Paul, Minnesota, in one of the largest Hmong communities in the U.S. In traditional Hmong culture, Vang said only the elite discuss politics…
