AALDEF honors Indian American actor activist for his advocacy and service on behalf of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has presented a 2022 Justice in Action Award to Indian American actor, activist, and author Kal Penn for his advo...
In the year since the Atlanta shootings, the Stop Asian Hate movement dramatically changed awareness of anti-Asian racism. Where does it go from here?
By Li Zhou/Vox
Brianna Cea, a 24-year-old voting rights organizer based in Brooklyn, felt a painful sense of recognition after the Atlanta shooting...
On March 16, 2021, eight people, including six Asian women massage workers, were killed at three spas in the Metro Atlanta area. As we mark the one year anniversary of this tragedy, we honor the victims, the survivors, and their families. We place their healing, care, and peace at the heart of our r...
The Indian American actor was honored for his advocacy for representation in media and his service on behalf of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Indian American actor Kal Penn received Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Justice in Action Award for his advocacy for representatio...
Evil.
We’ve born witness to it these past few weeks.
Russia denies it, but we can see for ourselves.
A maternity hospital shelled. Nuclear power plants attacked. Residential neighborhoods targeted. Innocent civilians killed. Before our eyes, we see Russia’s war in Ukraine unfold. Russia’s lies ab...
New York, NY — Yesterday evening, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) was proud to present this year’s Justice in Action Awards to Thomas S. Kim, Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary at Thomson Reuters, and Kal Penn, actor and author.
Thomas Kim received the award for ...
Younger Asian American leaders want to rely less on traditional policing solutions, while more traditional cultural and business groups favor them.
By Jeffery C. Mays, Dana Rubinstein and Grace Ashford/New York Times
She was attacked as she swept up in front of her Queens home in November, beaten ...
Nuclear power plants usually mean clean energy. Unless there’s an accident like Chernobyl. Or an attack on a power plant by a madman like we saw last night in Ukraine. Russia has turned a peaceful energy source into a de facto nuclear weapon.
And that’s where we are with Russia’s war on Ukraine.
S...
State of the Union? As I like to ask in my talk show, “What would an Asian American think?” Let me also give a SOTU response through a generic, homogenized American lens. And more relevantly, let me respond as if I were wearing the earbuds of a Putin or a Zelensky.
“Folks,” (as Joe Biden would say)...
The State of the World and the State of our Union both came into view for what was an historic coincidence last Friday, February 25th.
From Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the War in Ukraine, this is a snapshot of where we are in 2022.
Connected.
The world woke up last week to the invasion of Ukra...
“The Asian American community was especially hard hit, not only by the virus, but by an increase in hate and violent crimes,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement.
By Brahmjot Kaur/NBC News
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Sunday that $10 million will be given to organizations supporting Asia...
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) submitted testimony to the Maryland House Ways and Means Committee in favor of House Bill 922, which calls for Asian American history to be taught in K-12 schools in Maryland.
In his testimony, AALDEF Co-Presi...
The Winter Olympic games have ended, and now the real geopolitical games have begun with the U.S. and its allies trying hard not to go down the treacherous slopes of war.
And so we ask, will Ukraine become the new Uyghurs?
You’ll recall the Uyghur Muslim minority–silenced, reeducated and repressed...
Today, the New York Voting Rights Consortium, a non-partisan group of civil rights organizations, reiterated its support for the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (NYVRA). The consortium, which includes the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Asian American Legal Defe...
The move is required by federal law because at least 5% of Dallas County Vietnamese-speaking citizens who are of voting age have limited English proficiency.
By Charles Scudder and Jessica Huseman/Dallas Morning News
Dallas County will be required to offer election materials and ballots in Vietnam...
By Anh Do/Los Angeles Times
At age 7, Libby Yamamoto came home from a sleepover to find that her father had been taken away by the village police in their Peruvian town.
It was 1943, and as World War II raged, mounting numbers of Japanese in her country were also rounded up by authorities.
The U....
FBI: Violence against people of Asian descent has risen 76% since 2020
Senior staff attorney of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Stanley Mark, discusses the uptick in violent crimes against people of Asian descent.
View the interview at ABC News here, or take a look at the full...
Eileen Gu has become one of the most watchable Asian Americans in our day.
Only she isn’t. Or she is. Asian American.
Gu is what my old pal Corky Lee would call an ABC, “American Born Chinese.”
I call her an ABC-T, “American-born, Chinese Team.”
What we need now is clarity. From China and from G...
By Grace Hauck/USA Today
Bew Jirajariyawetch was waiting for a subway train in New York City when a man grabbed her from behind, assaulted her and took her purse. She was hospitalized and has physically recovered. But three months later, Jirajariyawetch, 23, said she continues to be retraumatized b...
By Gwen Aviles/Insider
Nancy Wang Yuen says she was walking to a bus stop in Los Angeles when a white man shouted “mock Chinese” and racial slurs at her.
“We bombed your ass in Hiroshima!” she remembered the man telling her.
The experience was frightening, but wasn’t an isolated incident, she sai...
