This weekend is a confluence of historic moments on one day, June 19th, that should make every Asian American and everyone, not just members of the BIPOC community, pause for meditation.
Sunday is Father’s Day, and for so many of us, we are here because of an action our parents and forebears took t...
By Corey Williams/AP
DETROIT (AP) — Decades before Chinese immigrant Yao Pan Ma was attacked while collecting cans in New York and Thai American Vicha Ratanapakdee was fatally assaulted in San Francisco, Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat in Detroit by two white men who never serv...
For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
After 10 Years of DACA, AALDEF Joins with Undocumented Asian American Youth to Call for Citizenship for All
As we mark the 10th anniversary of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, the Asian American Legal Defense and Educati...
To paraphrase the Bard, if all the world were a stage–like the Tonys–we’d certainly be better off. Especially if Ariana DeBose emceed everything.
I’ll talk about the necessary diversion that is Broadway in a sec, and the importance of getting our diverse stories—the real narratives of our lives—tol...
By Kyle Lawson/Staten Island Advance
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.— As it stands, 800,000 New York City residents who are not U.S. citizens, but authorized to live and work in the U.S., will be allowed to vote in next year’s municipal elections.
On Tuesday, proceedings surrounding a lawsuit filed by New Yor...
This week, a federal district judge ruled that the state of Texas must stop using a new election law to illegally restrict needed assistance to limited English speaking and disabled voters. The order modified a permanent injunction secured in 2018 by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fu...
I’m paying over $6 dollars for gas, am concerned over record inflation, general economic inequity, plus the lack of attention to public health amidst a pandemic, climate change, prospects of greater global conflicts, not to mention racism.
Oh, and gun violence.
How about you?
Think you should vot...
Just 7 out of the 233 anti-Asian attacks during 2021 resulted in a guilty plea to a hate crime, the Asian American Bar Association of New York report showed.
By Tat Bellamy-Walker
Only 3 percent of anti-Asian attacks in New York City resulted in a hate crime conviction, according to a report relea...
Civil Rights Organizations Urge Assembly to Act, Finalize Best-in-Nation Voting Rights Reforms
As the New York legislature kicks off its final week, civil and voting rights groups applaud lawmakers in the NY Senate for voting to approve the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (NYVRA), and c...
The first mass killing I ever covered in my journalism career was in 1980.
It was in East Texas, about 90 minutes by helicopter from Dallas.
I saw a lot of Texas underneath me that day as I landed in a place called Daingerfield.
There, a shooter named Alvin Lee King III, dressed in camouflage gar...
I look at the two pictures, one of Amerie Jo Garza, the ten-year-old honor student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The other of her classmate, Xavier Lopez, holding his honor roll certificate.
These students were a big part of America’s diverse future.
And now they are a big part of Am...
This week, we all got a lesson about the concept of “strategic ambiguity.”
That’s the strategy that says it’s sometimes helpful to speak out of both sides of your mouth.
Good for international diplomacy, perhaps.
Just not for Covid policy.
I shall explain, and give you a way to develop your own ...
America is trying to let the three most publicized shooting incidents of the last week fade away.
We can’t afford to let that happen again. Not after Newtown. Orlando. Las Vegas. Not to mention Christchurch, New Zealand. Have you forgotten all those?
The Buffalo supermarket shooting was like an ec...
Some legislators and groups called the new districts unconstitutional in submitted testimony. It’s unclear how their feedback will affect the final lines.
By Rebecca C. Lewis
When the court-appointed redistricting expert released his draft lines on Monday, he threw New York’s political world into ...
Ten African American people in Buffalo shot dead on Saturday in a shocking racist killing. It was a headline the country didn’t need. We have too many of them already.
Surely, Asian Americans know the violence all too well.
May has been one violent Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander H...
New York, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released the below statement in response to the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
“We are horrified and saddened by the racially motivated attack targeting Black people in Buffalo, New York. Our hearts remain with the vic...
The Honorable Kathy Hochul
Governor of New York State
NYS State Capitol Building
Albany, NY 12224
The Honorable Andrea Stewart-Cousins
President Pro Tempore and Majority Leader
New York State Senate
172 State Street
The Capitol, Room 330
Albany, NY 12247
The Honorable Carl E. Heastie
Speaker
New Y...
If you think democracy is getting tarnished in America, you could be a dual citizen of the U.S. and the Philippines. And then you’d be feeling twice as bad today.
Monday, May 9 is election day in the Philippines.
And it looks like the U.S.’s first colony–which ultimately was modeled to be our demo...
I wasn’t thinking about Norm on the first week of what he first coined as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
On my “micro” news/talk show on the web, I was prepared on Tuesday to talk about the Supreme Court leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose.
Did y...
NEW YORK — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) issued the following statement in response to the passing of Secretary Norman Mineta. Secretary Mineta served as Mayor of San Jose, Representative for California’s 13th and 15th districts, and the U.S. Secretary of Transportatio...
