by Susannah Griffee
A group seeking to build a mosque in Bridgewater, N.J. has sued the township for changing zoning laws to prevent the project.
The Al Falah Center says it worked with township officials for months to create a plan to renovate a former banquet center to be its new mosque and Isla...
by Lisa Fleisher
An Islamic group sued Bridgewater, N.J., for religious discrimination after the town changed zoning rules to block a mosque from opening in a residential neighborhood.
The Al Falah Center wanted to convert a former banquet hall located on a quiet side street into a mosque, day-car...
by Rhea Mahbubani
Two workers who claimed in court they were cheated out of wages by a Jersey City-based food distributor have settled their case for a total of $8,500, their attorneys said last week.
The $8,500 includes unpaid minimum wages, overtime compensation, and liquidated damages, said Apa...
Providence, RI – A military officer from the United Arab Emirates accused of keeping an unpaid servant while attending the Naval War College in Rhode Island has been arrested by federal officials after he boarded an international flight in New York City.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arr...
by Arun Venugopal
As the city plans to challenge what it says are low census numbers by showing that many of the thousands of vacancies – namely in Brooklyn and Queens – were in fact occupied homes, some residents in those areas spoke of an impenetrable “housing underworld” that census workers coul...
BY Susan C. Moeller
Korean-American leaders want to increase their community’s political influence, both locally and statewide, and some are pressing the state’s Legislative Apportionment Commission to create a concentrated block of Asian voters by moving Fort Lee and Edgewater into the 37th Distri...
by Lise Olsen
Skilled shipbuilders Kurian David and Murugan Kandhasamy, both natives of India, had good jobs in the United Arab Emirates when they spotted tantalizing newspaper ads: Green cards — legal permanent residency for those able to qualify for high-tech marine repair and construction jobs i...
by Meredith Kolodner
Only 14% of teachers believe the city’s program targeting bias-based bullying and harassment is effective, a new survey shows.
And about two-thirds of the 200 teachers surveyed from 117 schools said they had witnessed students being harassed based on their race, ethnicity and ...
Attorneys for Indian guest workers who are suing Mississippi-based marine and fabrication company Signal International along with its co-conspirators and other entities for human trafficking and racketeering have filed for class certification to include hundreds of additional workers in the lawsuit....
by Derek Beres
Farhan Ezad was living what most would consider a fairly typical American life in June 2010. At 35 years old, he had three sons and a decade-long marriage to a loving wife. But the economic downturn had taken its toll in Canadensis, Pennsylvania, and he had just lost his job. He was ...
by Meredith Kolodner
Almost a year after the state found that thousands of city students were not getting the language help mandated by law, the city still does not have a plan in place to fix the problem.
And this year’s budget cuts have made the situation even worse, teachers and parents say, as...
On Dec. 14, two Asian American civil rights organizations, the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) and the Asian American Legal Defense Fund (AALDEF), asked the federal government to reveal how Customs and Border Protection agents single out individuals at the border based solely on their national origin.
The t...
by Ivy Suriyopas
The 250-year legacy of slavery continues to permeate throughout contemporary United States. However, these days, the images we see are likely to be those of immigrants from the global South. Instead of state-sanctioned ownership and exploitation of workers inside the home or out in...
by Jeff Gammage
Much of the credit for two landmark settlements to battle racial bias, Chairman Stephen Glassman told spectators at the state Human Relations Commission meeting on Monday, goes to people who weren’t in the room:
Asian students at South Philadelphia High School.
It was the quiet po...
by Disgrasian (Jen Wang and Diana Nguyen)
There’s been a lot of talk this year about how America’s schools are failing its children. That talk has focused primarily on two separate issues: 1) the quality of education and 2) bullying in schools. In the case of South Philadelphia High School in the P...
by Krissah Thompson
A year after more than two dozen Asian American students were attacked at a high school in South Philadelphia, the Department of Justice has reached an agreement with school officials there, resolving a high-profile investigation into school bullying.
The Philadelphia incident,...
by Andrew Tangel and Matthew van Dusen
A Palisades Park restaurant has paid $48,000 to former employees who picketed the eatery over unpaid wages.
The wages of seven workers, including cooks and sushi chefs, earned at the Dokdo Sarang Restaurant on Broad Avenue in 2009 were finally repaid in late ...
The Philadelphia School District signed a two-and-a-half year civil rights agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to address anti-Asian immigrant violence at a Philadelphia high school.
“Schools have an obligation to ensure a safe learning environment for everyone. We will continue to use all o...
by Richard Springer
South Asian American organizations have exulted over the Election Day victories of Republican Nikki Haley as governor in South Carolina and Bangladeshi American Democrat Hansen Clarke for Congress in Detroit, Mich.
But there were also musings by political analysts after the Nov...
WASHINGTON…Two immigration rights groups have filed an amicus brief in a US court arguing that an H-1B employee should not face arrest, detention or deportation after his initial period of admission expires if a pending extension request remains under review.
The brief, filed in federal district co...
