New York, NY — At the start of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) announced that Bethany Li will join the staff as its new legal director. She will litigate cases that have broad impact on Asian American communities, build AAL...
Let me be the first to welcome you to May, Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, our month in the nation’s diversity calendar.
It begins as we all wait to see if anyone famous/important tests positive for Covid after the weekend’s 3,000 person indoor celebration of free-speech and normalc...
When an Asian American politician accuses an opponent of racism, that’s usually worth a mention.
But it’s worth a double take when the accusation is made by one Asian American against another.
Asian vs. Asian racism? That’s the issue in California, and it’s a situation the entire AAPI community sh...
On the week of Earth Day, there was a tornado warning in California’s Central Valley.
A tornado warning in the middle of the farmlands where many of our Chinese, Japanese and Filipino ancestors worked in the 1860s, the 1930s, and the 1940s.
In 2022 there is a tornado warning.
That should be enoug...
The day after Easter and a wet egg roll at the White House is the least of Asian Americans’ worries.
Not when a good person is getting rolled in California politics in a raging case of ageism.
Politics is getting nasty in the most populous Asian American state in the nation, with unidentified sour...
By Síle Moloney/Norwood News
LatinoJustice PRLDEF, community partners, and pro-bono counsel, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, announced on Tuesday, April 12, that they have collectively filed a motion to challenge a lawsuit which seeks to reverse the recently approved municipal voting rights bill in New...
Hate crimes and incidents against members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community raise a host of legal, ethical, linguistic, and cultural issues for lawyers deciding whether, how, and to what extent to get involved. Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) Co-Pre...
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
Hydrologist Sherry Chen, a Chinese immigrant, said she once saw herself as a “soldier without a uniform,” pointing to her hard work to keep American cities safe and informed with her water and flooding analysis.
But after the Justice Department accused her of spying for China...
Of course, Bucha and the atrocities committed by Russia in Ukraine must hold the focus of the free world. We can only interrupt our attention on life and death history with even more history.
And so we do, to cheer a momentous breakthrough for democracy in America.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is the new...
By Ethan Stark-Miller/PoliticsNY
As the fate of New York’s Congressional and state legislative districts is being litigated in the courts, a group of grassroots organizations is already focussing on the city’s redistricting.
A coalition of Asian American civic organizations rallied on the steps of...
This weekend, you could have been celebrating as one of the lucky 3.19 percent to get into Harvard’s incoming freshman Class of 2026.
It’s the lowest acceptance rate ever, which means that of 61,220 people who applied, 1,954 students made the grade. Lucky you?
Or were you in the other pile of 59,2...
In anticipation of the Supreme Court review of a lawsuit that claims Harvard’s race-conscious admissions discriminates against Asian American applicants, Harvard College has unveiled a fall class that is 80 percent Asian.
“If the University of California can have 40 and 50 percent Asians at some of...
We were all watching the Oscars when Will Smith’s open hand struck Chris Rock. You know Rock felt it.
But I did too. We all did. It wasn’t fake. It was real.
Any Asian American who has lived through the last two years of hate and violence had to flinch. These days, we know about violence in Americ...
By Corinne S. Kennedy/Memphis Commercial Appeal
After a Memphis artist’s picture was removed from Memphis International Airport due to complaints — and later reinstalled due to complaints — the artist and local arts community are trying to figure out why it happened and how to prevent similar event...
Ketanji Brown Jackson should be the next Supreme Court Justice of the United States.
Just start calling her KBJ now.
She’s been called, by virtue of her legal experience, the most qualified nominee for the Supreme Court in history. But, of course, she would have to be. People of color always have ...
Part of national multicultural campaign to increase citizenship among eligible immigrants
WHAT: National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), in partnership with the Service Employment International Union (SEIU), New York Immigration Coalition, Chinese Progressive Association, Asian American Legal...
In more than twenty years, Asian Americans have gone from chanting “I am not a spy” to “I am not a virus.”
We may have to go back to the old phrase.
These are the time-honored battle cries used to call out the racist hate we’ve experienced when U.S. nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee was falsely accused...
By April Siese/Daily Kos
Who could have seen this coming? Texas’ highly restrictive new voting laws tripped up thousands of voters, resulting in nearly 23,000 ballots being thrown out, according to the Associated Press. The AP was able to receive voting information from 187 of Texas’ 254 counties, ...
Dear Senator:
On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 230 national organizations committed to promoting and protecting the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States, and the 186 undersigned organizations, we write to express our st...
Asian American? I feel like a Ukrainian today.
I just saw President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to Congress. Don’t just watch the clips and soundbites. Get it all. See the video that it includes. If you’ve followed the war on the news, the images will be familiar. They are part of our lives. The wa...
