By Ese Olumhense/City Limits
The “Unity Map” was drawn by three civil rights legal groups—the Asian American Legal Defense Fund, the Center for Law and Social Justice, and Latino Justice—and features districts drawn to preserve a community’s political power, the organizers said, particularly import
By Andrew Schneider/Houston Public Media
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
People of color accounted for virtually all of Texas’ population growth over the past 10 years, yet when lawmakers meant to redraw the state’s congressional maps, they actually created more white-majority districts. The Justice Depa
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang/PBS NewsHour
As concern mounts from some parents about concepts like Critical Race Theory and whether it should be taught in K-12 classrooms, which it is not, some other parents are concerned about how to prepare and protect their Muslim, Sikh, Arab and Asian American childr
By Brahmjot Kaur/NBC News
A Laotian-owned French bakery in Connecticut has started a college scholarship for students taking Asian American studies and pursuing careers in public school education.
Khamla Vorasane opened BouNom Bakery in Avon last February with her sister, Chan Graham. It’s named a
By Nargis Hakim Rahman/WDET
As voters walk into the Hamtramck Community Center, Ali Newaz greets voters and directs them to one of three precincts. He smiles behind his mask. He’s wearing a bright orange sign on his multicolored windbreaker that reads “I speak Bangla.”
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In June, the city of Hamt
By Roz Brown/Public News Service
AUSTIN, Texas — Legal challenges are piling up in Texas over newly-drawn congressional and legislative district maps, with the latest alleging they disenfranchise people of color.
The Fair Maps Texas Action Committee filed a legal challenge this week on behalf of a
“Building solidarity with other communities, community sharing, that kind of vision. You will help prevent a lot of the issues and a lot of these situations where you have random attacks,” said Stanley Mark, senior staff attorney at AALDEF, in an interview with Newsy about the rise in hate crimes ag
By Jacob Kaye/Queens Daily Eagle
For over five hours, Queens residents told the New York State Independent Redistricting Commission how they felt the initial proposed redistricting maps held up to their expectations earlier this week.
Gathered at York College on Wednesday, the commission held its
By Nigel Roberts/BK Reader
Communities across Brooklyn voiced their concerns on Tuesday about the proposed state Independent Redistricting Commission’s (IRC) competing electoral district maps, which were supposed to be bipartisan and compliant with constitutional principles of fairness and equality
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
Asian Americans continued to support Democratic candidates in high-profile elections around the country last week, new exit polling data shows.
In the Virginia gubernatorial election and the Boston and New York mayoral races, Asian Americans overwhelmingly voted for Democrats
By Sami Sparber/Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN — The court fights have already begun over Texas’ new political maps, which secure the GOP’s grip on power for the next decade but blunt the voting strength of nonwhite voters who fueled the state’s population surge.
The decennial redistricting process fo
By Laura Zornosa
On Sunday afternoon, a pigeon flew through a performance of “Covid Crime,” a one-act play taking place at a Manhattan intersection, where yellow taxis whizzed by against the backdrop of a halal food cart.
The show, written by Lionelle Hamanaka and directed by Howard Pflanzer, was
By Annelise Gilbert/The Uptowner
Hate crimes are surging in upper Manhattan, outpacing an increase across New York City after a dip in 2020 with its pandemic-related lockdown. The 35 bias-attacks reported in uptown precincts this year puts offenses on track to top the previous record, 36 incidents
By Annika Kim Constantino/CNBC
The battle to redraw U.S. congressional districts is taking place for the first time in decades without certain federal redistricting protections, raising concern that voters of color could get sidelined even as they have become a larger share of the population.
The
By Arun Venugopal/WNYC
New York City experienced dramatic growth over the last ten years, bringing its current population to a record 8.8 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which released the first detailed statistics from the 2020 Census.
On balance, the city added more than 629,000 re
By David Cruz/Gothamist
The state’s Independent Redistricting Commission has now completed a series of listening sessions and accepted written testimony, gathering input before it redraws the lines of all legislative and congressional districts in New York. It will rely on the latest data from the
By Jennie L. Ilustre/Asian Fortune
Asian American and top mainstream organizations have expressed outrage over the recent ruling of a federal judge in Texas that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is unlawful.
Current DACA recipients are not affected for now. Application renewals al
By Max Parrott/Queens Chronicle
Queens has had its first hearing in the post-Census process of redrawing congressional and state legislative lines under a new commission ushered in by voters back in 2014.
An online forum last Thursday gave constituents of the World’s Borough a three-minute opportu
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
Although a Georgia prosecutor declared this week that no racial bias was involved in the Atlanta-area spa shootings in March, experts say interviews with the suspect’s Asian “acquaintances” prove little about Robert Aaron Long’s outlook on Asian Americans.
Long, who pleaded g
By Meera Kymal/India Currents
When the city of Hamtramck in Michigan goes to the polls on August 3, Bangladeshi-American Rahima Begum will cast her vote for the first time in Bengali.
Rahima, 47, who lives in Hamtramck with her husband and two daughters is a limited English speaker like many in he
