Austin, T.X. (November 16, 2021) — Civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, Fair Maps Texas Action Committee v. Abbott, challenging new Texas state legislative and Congressional district plans as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders violating both the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Const...
Nearly 1 in 5 Asian American voters reported experiencing anti-Asian harassment or violence
MA | MI | NJ | NY | VA
New York, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released new data from its nonpartisan, multilingual exit poll of 2,726 Asian American voters in the Novemb...
You’d think after nearly two years, it would subside. The virus? No, the hate AAPIs of all ethnicities still feel after being scapegoated by the disgraced and impeached former president–the one who birthed the term “China Virus” and who still retains power and influence over a vast number of America...
Every one in the greater AAPI community has a Veterans Day story. I encourage you to email me, emil@amok.com, to share it, and I will post and talk about as many as I can.
For example, I am constantly reminded about the 442nd Regiment ,the “Go For Broke” Japanese Americans that fought heroically in...
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
Asian Americans continued to support Democratic candidates in high-profile elections around the country last week, new exit polling data shows.
In the Virginia gubernatorial election and the Boston and New York mayoral races, Asian Americans overwhelmingly voted for Democrats...
I started going to rock concerts in earnest when I was a teenager in Houston. I had taken a gap year from college and was the all-night DJ on the biggest rock station in town. But whenever I saw “festival seating” on a ticket, I knew it was more than just a warning. It was an invitation to disaster....
AALDEF, CLSJ, and LatinoJustice of the Unity Map Coalition Propose Redistricting Plan
NEW YORK — The UNITY MAP COALITION, a coalition of the leading legal voting rights advocacy organizations representing people of color in New York City, unveiled its proposed redistricting plan for New York City e...
Asian American voters strongly supported Democratic candidates in close races
MA | MI | NJ | NY | VA
New York, NY — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released preliminary results of its nonpartisan, multilingual exit poll of more than 2500 Asian American voters in...
Michelle Wu. Not “Michelle who?”
She was the tip of a trend that could be the secret of America’s diverse political future. I call it the “Asian American difference” and Wu was just the first sign of something that could be seen coast-to-coast.
On a night when pundits looked to the Virginia gubern...
Dear Community Members and Partners,
The New York Voting Rights Consortium, a group of leading local and national voting-rights advocates,[1] issues this statement in support of New York State ballot proposals 1, 3 and 4. In doing so, we recognize the critical opportunity these measures present in ...
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Unity Map Coalition Unveils Redistricting Plan for New York City
AALDEF, CLSJ, and LatinoJustice Propose “Unity” Redistricting Map
NEW YORK - The UNITY MAP COALITION, a coalition of the leading legal voting rights advocacy organizations representing p...
New York, NY – The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based, national, civil rights organization, will dispatch close to 257 attorneys and volunteers to document voter problems and the availability of language assistance on Election Day (Tuesday, November 2), and al...
You don’t have to go back to the 19th century to feel an animus in America toward Asians. This week, there’s a disturbing anti-Filipino streak at of all places, the University of California, Berkeley. And just as October and Filipino American History Month ends.
After students protested last week a...
By Sami Sparber/Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN — The court fights have already begun over Texas’ new political maps, which secure the GOP’s grip on power for the next decade but blunt the voting strength of nonwhite voters who fueled the state’s population surge.
The decennial redistricting process fo...
The next RAISE and AALDEF virtual immigration clinic will take place on Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 6 pm ET. AALDEF attorneys will share latest updates on immigration bills, conduct initial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) eligibility screenings, provide counseling to current DACA rec...
By Laura Zornosa
On Sunday afternoon, a pigeon flew through a performance of “Covid Crime,” a one-act play taking place at a Manhattan intersection, where yellow taxis whizzed by against the backdrop of a halal food cart.
The show, written by Lionelle Hamanaka and directed by Howard Pflanzer, was ...
Since this is Filipino American History Month, I want to honor an Asian American Filipino of note, Larry Itliong, and add a few words to my last column on Colin Powell.
October 25 is Itliong’s birthday, and an official “day” in California. Not a holiday–you still have to work. But then again, Itlio...
By Annelise Gilbert/The Uptowner
Hate crimes are surging in upper Manhattan, outpacing an increase across New York City after a dip in 2020 with its pandemic-related lockdown. The 35 bias-attacks reported in uptown precincts this year puts offenses on track to top the previous record, 36 incidents ...
General Colin Powell died on the most important day of Filipino American History Month, Oct. 18, a day when the Filipinos are documented as first to step foot on American soil in 1587.
First has to count for something.
Powell was a first too. He was the epitome of what I call “Firsterism,” that dr...
I celebrated Filipino American History Month last night by cooking the Filipino vegetable stew, pinakbet–my amok vegan version anchored with that gorgeous furrowed gourd, a/k/a ampalaya in Tagalog. You might know it as bitter melon.
It’s not a melon, really; it’s the opposite of honeydew. Nor is it...
