By Ruby Cramer/The Washington Post
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advanced a dangerous conspiracy theory this week that the coronavirus could have been a bioweapon “deliberately targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people while disproportionately attacking White an...
By Ankush Khardori/New York Magazine
The Supreme Court has made clear, once again, that conservatives control the Court, and that they will continue their movement’s decades-long project to reverse legal precedents that they simply do not like. Last year, it was the overruling of Roe v. Wade. On Th...
By Patrick Tooney/ACLU's National Security Project and Clay Zhu/Chinese American Legal Defense Alliance
Barring people from buying a house because of where they’re from is unconstitutional and unacceptable. And yet that’s exactly what Florida’s new law attempts to do.
On May 8, Florida Governor Ro...
By Ethan Stark-Miller/amNY
Petitioning for this year’s City Council elections, set to start next week, could now be delayed due to a lawsuit filed on Friday by a legal defense group on behalf of Asian American communities in south Queens that seek to alter the new council maps adopted during last y...
By Matt Tracy/Gay City News
Queens-based civil rights attorney and professor Glenn D. Magpantay was sworn into the US Commission on Civil Rights on February 15 at the recommendation of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Queens Congressmember Grace Meng.
Magpantay, who was already an advisor ...
By Yoonji Han/Insider
The Asian community in America is grieving after a mass shooting following a Lunar New Year celebration in California this weekend.
Ten people were killed at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday night, according to authorities. The city, which has a majority A...
The first New Jersey state-wide celebration of Korematsu, civil liberties and the Constitution will take place on Jan. 30, 2023.
By Dean Rose Cuison-Villazor and Phil Tajitsu Nash
On Dec. 19, 2022, the New Jersey Senate passed NJ Assembly Joint Resolution 98, a bill to establish January 30 of each...
Given Mung Chiang’s historic new role, some have called on him to address Thomas L. Keon’s actions.
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
Purdue University’s first Asian American president has taken office, weeks after a chancellor in its greater school system was criticized for what many considered to be a racis...
A survey of neighborhood business owners shows widespread opposition, member organizations say.
By Jordan Levy/Billy Penn
To coordinate and strengthen the swell of grassroots opposition to the Sixers’ proposal to build a new home in Center City, advocates on Monday announced the formal Chinatown C...
“This community has been around here for 150 years. We are not stupid. We know that this is a land grab,” a coalition leader said.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) – A Philadelphia community is banding together, and strengthening its allies, in a fight to stop the 76ers’ proposed arena.
They announced the “Chi...
Chinatown community members are announcing a formalized coalition against the 76ers arena at a press conference Monday morning. At that time AALDEF will be pledging legal support to their fight.
by Massarah Mikati/Philadelphia Inquirer
Almost 50 Chinatown associations and organizations will come t...
By Dongdong Yang/Sampan
Officials, voters, and community groups celebrated passage of Malden transliteration law on December 15, 2022. It marked a significant step towards ensuring full access to the ballot box for Chinese-speaking voters with low English proficiency. According to a 2021 American C...
The results reflect that Asian American voters, who make up 4.7% of the state’s overall electorate, grew in support for the incumbent since the midterms last month.
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
An Election Day poll released by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund on Wednesday showed that 7...
Some warn that, with changing demographics and drastic generational differences, the parties will have to adapt to earn Asian American’s long-term loyalty.
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
In the highly competitive swing state of Nevada, both parties aggressively courted Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders...
By Amy Yee/Bloomberg
Under federal law, Philadelphia offered Chinese-language help in midterm elections as community organizations worked to boost turnout of AAPI voters.
In the waning hours of US midterm elections last week, a Chinese American couple in their 70s in Philadelphia’s Chinatown voted...
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
Two separate exit polls showed that Asian Americans leaned left, but Democrats shouldn’t take the demographic for granted, experts say.
May Yeung, 35, a New York City-based publicist, said she was impressed by the crowd at her polling place in Chinatown but not entirely surpr...
By Jeanmarie Evelly/City Limits
A patchwork of agencies, stakeholders and community groups help provide language-specific educational materials and translation services around city elections, what experts say is essential to making sure residents aren’t locked out of the democratic process.
New Yo...
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang/PBS NewsHour
Three days before the inauguration of President Trump, Nada Al-Hanooti’s mother, who was born in a Syrian refugee camp and speaks very little English, was able to take and pass the U.S. citizenship test. Although she was able to naturalize in Arabic, when it cam...
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Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases concerning affirmative action in post-secondary schools, now known more commonly as race-conscious admissions. In one of those cases, conser...
By Ariane de Vogue/CNN
The conservative Supreme Court will meet Monday to consider whether colleges and universities can continue to take race into consideration as a factor in admissions, a case that could diminish the number of Black and Hispanic students in higher education.
Hanging in the bala...
