Manhattan Times - There was no malice–and no master plan. So insisted the New York City Board of Elections (BOE) Executive Director Michael Ryan, as he was pressed by federal lawmakers last Friday to explain recent issues…
Fusion - A group representing Asian-American students and their parents have filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, alleging that Yale, Brown and Dartmouth are discriminating against Asian-Americans by implementing…
Boston Globe - Gloria Chin climbs up a tight stairwell inside of 49 Beach St., a Chinatown apartment building with stained white walls, narrow hallways, and pink doors leading to 40 units crowded with families…
NBC News - A New Jersey township planning board’s alleged application of different land-use standards for a proposal to build a mosque violated federal law and is an “affront to our nation’s commitment to religious liberty for all,”…
NBC News - A New Jersey township planning board’s alleged application of different land-use standards for a proposal to build a mosque violated federal law and is an “affront to our nation’s commitment to religious liberty for all…
NBC News - The New York City Board of Elections suspended a second official without pay amid allegations that at least 120,000 names were purged from voter rolls in Brooklyn ahead of the presidential primaries last month…
Gothamist - The director of the city Board of Elections apologized for voter registration and Primary Day polling place problems on Tuesday at a heated meeting of the board’s commissioners…
NBC News - Voter advocates and elected officials gathered on the steps of New York City Hall Monday morning to call for election reform in the wake of reported voter irregularities in last week’s state presidential primaries and special elections…
NBC News - Voters in Williamson County, Texas, will have the freedom to choose any translator they like to help them while voting after the county settled a lawsuit filed by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund…
NPR - The next presidential primary battle has arrived in a state with one of the country’s largest Asian populations. A bulk of New York’s more than 903,000 eligible Asian-American voters lives in New York City, where 24-year-old Brenda Nguyen…
NPR - It was one of four questions the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund was tracking among voters in the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S. Other topics included gun control, LGBT discrimination and immigration…
NBC News - Twenty-one years ago, Qinglan Huang was in her midtown Manhattan office when the phone rang around noontime. It was her neighbor, who had called to say her younger brother had been injured…
New York Times - When it comes to slurs and their trademarking, I believe the First Amendment rules the process. That means more speech, but also more protests, a deeper consideration of people’s intent as well as government limitations on hate…
2016 Justice in Action Award recipients and presenters. L to R: Jeff Yang, Wall Street Journal columnist; Phil Yu, creator of the Angry Asian Man blog; Louise Parent, of counsel, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Heidi C. Chen, Executive VP and general counsel of Zoetis; Neal Katyal of Hogan Love
New York Daily News - Q. I’ll have five years of permanent residence this coming August. I want to vote in November. When can I file my naturalization application?–Trudy Whyte, New York City. A. You can file your naturalization…
MediaMatters - Media, experts, and civil rights groups are all criticizing Ted Cruz’s call to “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods” in the wake of terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium, seemingly inspired by ISIS. The plan has been called “counterproductive…
Weekly Standard - Asian-Americans have recently surpassed Hispanics as the fastest growing ethnic voting bloc in the United States, with their voting numbers expected to double by 2040. Admiring thrift, hating waste, valuing education…
Stateline - In 37 states, a country other than Mexico is now the most common country of origin for newly arrived immigrants, according to a Stateline analysis of census data. The numbers reflect a steep decline in Mexican immigration since 2005…
NBC News - Angela Guanzon remembers learning about human trafficking growing up in the Philippines, but she never imagined that one day she would be a trafficking survivor. “All I heard about was human or sex trafficking–not labor trafficking…”
Hong Kong Economic Journal - It wasn’t anything we haven’t heard before. But in a year in which #OscarsSoWhite dominated headlines, awards host Chris Rock’s tone-deaf joke at the expense of Asian kids was a cheap shot.
