By Anita Gundanna and Vanessa Leung, Coalition for Asian American Children and Families
‘AAPI New Yorkers deserve to be heard in the halls of power, and we need a mayor who will recapture our diverse communities’ support and confidence.’
The diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) commu...
By Andres Picon/SF Chronicle
Michelle Go, who was killed in New York City on Saturday when a man pushed her onto the subway tracks, grew up in Fremont and went to college in Los Angeles.
“We are in a state of shock and grieving the loss of our daughter, sister, and friend,” Go’s family members, wh...
By Namita Singh/Independent
Tributes from friends, colleagues, and neighbours poured in for Michelle Alyssa Go, a New York businesswoman who was shoved to death in front of a subway on Saturday.
“She was incredibly smart,” her neighbour Olivia Henderson told the New York Times as she fought back t...
By Brittany Valentine/Al Dia
The Chinese-American woman’s death has once again heightened fears of Anti-Asian crimes in the city.
On Saturday, Jan. 15, at around 9:30 a.m, a woman was pushed to her death in front of an oncoming train at a New York City subway station near 42nd Street and Broadway....
By Myles Miller
The man accused of shoving an Asian woman to her death at a New York City subway station has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder, police confirmed late Saturday.
The 40-year-old victim, identified as Michelle Alyssa Go of New York City, was waiting for a southbound ...
By Emma Brazell/Metro.co.uk
A woman has died after being pushed in front of a subway train in New York.
Michelle Alyssa Go, 40, was the victim of an ‘unprovoked’ attack at Times Square station on Saturday morning.
A man is said to have first approached another woman who feared he would shove her ...
By Jennifer Peltz and Carolyn Thompson/AP
NEW YORK – A woman was pushed to her death in front of a subway train at the Times Square station Saturday, police said, a little more than a week after the mayor and governor announced plans to boost subway policing and outreach to homeless people in New Y...
NEW YORK — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) issued the following statement in response to the violent attack against an Asian American woman in the New York City subway.
“As we finish out a second year into the pandemic, violent attacks on Asian Americans have continued ...
The family of Martin Luther King, Jr was adamant about MLK’s birthday. There would be no celebration without legislation.
At this point, we may not get either. But we will have time to reflect. The fight isn’t quite over yet, which is why later in this column, I want to remember an Asian American a...
By Anna Bradley-Smith/BK Reader
The state’s Independent Redistricting Commission has been told to go back to the drawing board after failing to agree on how to divide districts including, Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, in its proposed electoral maps
A bipartisan committee tasked with establishing one new...
President Biden’s speech in Atlanta on getting voting rights legislation passed by the MLK holiday may as well have been his “I Have A Dream” speech.
He just doesn’t have the votes, at least not yet.
But it may have been his best civil rights speech ever.
He was personal and direct, and with our ...
NEW YORK — New York’s Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) has failed New Yorkers by proving themselves incapable of rising above partisan political squabbling to create a fair, nonpartisan redistricting plan. During New York’s inaugural redistricting cycle under the misnamed Independent Redis...
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2022
Unity Map Coalition Calls for the Rejection of the IRC Redistricting Plans
AALDEF, CLSJ, and LatinoJustice Call on New York State Legislature to Adopt Unity Map
NEW YORK — The UNITY MAP COALITION, a coalition of the leading legal voting rights advocacy...
The masked man in the Capitol Rotunda wore an American flag cape and waved a Filipino broom. Known as a “boi-boi” or a “Walis Tambo,” the handmade tool made for sweeping was a tell-tale sign on Jan. 6.
Asian Americans were not exactly wallflowers at this party.
For Kene Brian Lazo of Norfolk, Virg...
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...
Empower Marginalized Communities and Safeguard Democracy for the Next Ten Years
New York, NY — This is a defining moment for the new Governor and the New York State Legislature to decide where power lies in New York for the next ten years. With the Independent Redistricting Commission deadlocked, i...
Hope you took my suggestion and rebirthed yourself as the New Year’s baby for 2022. You deserve a fresh start!
And that’s why I’m not going to talk about Covid and Omicron to kick off the year. You’re living that story.
Instead, let’s talk ethnic studies. Not “critical race theory,” mind you. Ethn...
WILL THEY SUPPORT THE UNITY MAP OR STATUS QUO FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS?
WHAT: Virtual Press Conference by APA VOICE Redistricting Task Force, largest APA coalition of civic engagement groups involved in the 2020 Redistricting Cycle in New York City
WHY: The Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) ...
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...
My New Year’s Resolution for 2022? To be negative, and stay that way—until the CDC figures things out and everyone gets access to not just an antigen rapid test, but one of those better PCR tests.
In New York, It shouldn’t be easier to find a parking space than a Covid test.
But this is where we a...
