Last week’s column showed how Filipinos in America provided the basis for the racist Dred Scott decision (1857), where a Black slave was prevented from suing for his freedom. Chief Justice Roger Taney based it on an opinion he wrote in 1840 that since only White Christians could participate in socie...
NEW YORK — Yesterday, the NYC Districting Commission voted 13 to1 to send their revised districting plan to New York City Council. Yet the Unity Map Coalition points out that the revised plan still has many of the same issues as the prior rejected maps, drawing lines that divide the protected commun...
October 2022 marks the coincidence of the new Supreme Court session, the start of Filipino American History Month, and the opening of a new satirical history of race in America by the esteemed African American writer Ishmael Reed.
All of them are connected. Read on.
First, the Supreme Court. No ma...
Hurricane Ian has exposed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the small, mean political animal that he is.
In fact, he could learn something from someone who in the hurricane’s aftermath is doing more to reassure all Floridians and the rest of the country. That someone would be President Joe Biden.
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By Sydney Smith Forquer and Ashling A. Ehrhardt - On Oct. 31, the court will hear two cases challenging affirmative action in university admissions: Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, notably brought by the...
Jin Yut Lew is a 61-year-old in a coma requiring 24-hour care in Chicago.
He couldn’t watch anything on Sunday night. Not even Simu Liu.
Technically, Liu of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” fame (you know, that movie where a despicable character named Emil gets his ass kicked in a cage ...
Since Queen Elizabeth II’s death, I took to criticizing the repressive colonial misdeeds of the British Empire to balance out the steady stream of adulation.
When you hear someone say queen, remember Kenya. Or Kowloon. Or Burma.
And it was in all things royal. The queen may have been nice to her c...
For the AAPI community, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII by the U.S. and the subsequent redress payments is a major human rights milestone. There’s a similar story relevant to today’s confluence of historical events, Queen Elizabeth’s passing and the anniversary of 9/11.
But firs...
I’m overcome by the news. I reported on Queen Elizabeth II just once, when she visited San Francisco in 1983. Then as now, as the world mourns her death, I am gratefully reminded how in our American democracy there is no monarchy.
I respect the Queen, of course, but I am still thinking about how in...
On Wednesday, August 31, legal counsel representing plaintiffs in the case Fair Maps Texas Action Committee, et al., v. Abbott, et al. released a joint statement responding to the federal District Court’s postponement of the Texas Redistricting trial scheduled to begin on September 28, 2022. The cou...
By Andrew Schneider - A federal court in Austin will soon hear a lawsuit charging Texas with discriminating against minority voters in last year’s redistricting process. . .
A coalition of civil rights organizations makes up the plaintiffs’ legal team, among them the ACLU Foundation of Texas, the S...
As Asian Americans, we are always tied to our homeland politics in some personal way. China, Taiwan, India, the Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, Korea, Cambodia, you name it.
We are aware of the moments of the present day that may ultimately become history. The calendar marks days you never forget.
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MALDEN, MA — The city of Malden has committed to implementing a series of voter accessibility measures under a memorandum of understanding that it finalized last week with organizations advocating for the local Chinese-speaking community.
Announced by the Asian American Le...
MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), in partnership with a coalition of local Asian American community organizations, reached a settlement with the City of Malden to resolve the city’s failure to provide Chinese language information and assista...
I remember Sunday, August 21, 1983 well. It was the day Benigno Aquino, Jr., the man Filipinos called “Ninoy,” was gunned down at the Manila airport after flying home from exile in the U.S.
I was a television reporter on the NBC station in San Francisco. With around 250,000 Filipinos in the Bay Are...
The new Uncle Sam may be Liz Cheney. She’s not the “Karen” wagging her finger saying she’s wants to speak to the manager. She is pointing her finger at us because now she has a proposition.
But is Cheney going to change the spelling of her name to CH-AA-NEY– just to lure us Asian Americans? She’ll ...
We are now entering an era when the greatest threat to our democracy is one FPOTUS.
FPOTUS?
That was the description on the affidavit attached to that historic search warrant on the property of The Former President of the United States, a/k/a FPOTUS.
But why stop at one F when there’s a foultitud...
I’m not going to take the Fifth like Donald Trump did more than 400 times on Wednesday at his deposition with the New York Attorney General’s office.
It’s a civil case concerning the financial structure of the Trump organization. Which is a different case from the FBI raid of Mar-A-Lago for possibl...
“Asian American” is one big umbrella in our American cocktail, but what do we really know about each other and how we feel?
For example, Filipino Americans are beginning to break through on the big screen. Yes, Nico Santos was in “Crazy Rich Asians,” but now Jo Koy is out with his Steven Spielberg-...
NEW YORK, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund released the below statement in response to the anti-Asian messages perpetuated in the judicial race in Orlando, Florida.
“In a classic example of the perpetual foreigner stereotype rearing its ugly head, a political consultant in a...
