By Arun Venugopal/WNYC
New York City experienced dramatic growth over the last ten years, bringing its current population to a record 8.8 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which released the first detailed statistics from the 2020 Census.
On balance, the city added more than 629,000 re...
NEW YORK — Today’s census data release marks the start of one of the most vital democratic processes in our country, the redrawing of electoral districts. When the process is done fairly and transparently, it ensures that electoral districts are drawn in a manner that is representative of the people...
By David Cruz/Gothamist
The state’s Independent Redistricting Commission has now completed a series of listening sessions and accepted written testimony, gathering input before it redraws the lines of all legislative and congressional districts in New York. It will rely on the latest data from the ...
In this column, I shall talk one last time about the Olympics, and then declare the post-Olympic Suni Lee the most watchable Asian American in the world.
But first things first.
If you’ve seen the word “Cuomosexual” in print suddenly, or showing up on women’s T-shirts protesting Governor Andrew Cu...
By Jennie L. Ilustre/Asian Fortune
Asian American and top mainstream organizations have expressed outrage over the recent ruling of a federal judge in Texas that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is unlawful.
Current DACA recipients are not affected for now. Application renewals al...
Teenage phenom Suni Lee, the first Asian American, first Hmong American to win an Olympic gold medal in the marquee gymnastics event—the all-around–was sitting on the Today Show couch in Tokyo on Tuesday this week.
Simone Biles had just finished her comeback performance and won bronze in the indivi...
What did Suni Lee really do last week at the 2020 in 2021 Summer Olympics? She just smashed the biggest stereotypes that have burdened Asian Americans for generations.
But first she had to jump around in a Tokyo arena. And that was something special too.
The eighteen-year-old Lee made every Asian ...
By Max Parrott/Queens Chronicle
Queens has had its first hearing in the post-Census process of redrawing congressional and state legislative lines under a new commission ushered in by voters back in 2014.
An online forum last Thursday gave constituents of the World’s Borough a three-minute opportu...
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
Although a Georgia prosecutor declared this week that no racial bias was involved in the Atlanta-area spa shootings in March, experts say interviews with the suspect’s Asian “acquaintances” prove little about Robert Aaron Long’s outlook on Asian Americans.
Long, who pleaded g...
By Meera Kymal/India Currents
When the city of Hamtramck in Michigan goes to the polls on August 3, Bangladeshi-American Rahima Begum will cast her vote for the first time in Bengali.
Rahima, 47, who lives in Hamtramck with her husband and two daughters is a limited English speaker like many in he...
The next RAISE and AALDEF virtual immigration clinic will take place on Thursday, July 29, 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 recipi...
Here’s the takeaway message to all Asian Americans when violent acts against us aren’t treated as hate crimes.
We don’t count.
Justice doesn’t apply to us. We’re not seen, again.
You just need to remember Vincent Chin (I explain later) to understand the difficulty in getting justice for the six A...
An Asian American Filipina, Lee Kiefer, from Lexington, Kentucky, made history at this year’s Olympics in Tokyo. You couldn’t tell at first because she wore a mask—a fencer’s mask—with the American flag on the grill.
But when she took it off, you could see her big smile when she won the Gold–one of...
By Associated Press
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — A small, diverse Detroit-area community has agreed to provide election ballots in the Bengali language.
A federal judge signed off on a settlement between Hamtramck and lawyers who represented a woman who speaks Bengali and has limited English skills, th...
By David Cruz/Gothamist
For the first time in state history, everyday New Yorkers will get first dibs in how they define their state and federal legislative districts, part of a decennial process previously left only to lawmakers. That process begins with outlining neighborhood borders, which advoc...
By Niraj Warikoo/Detroit Free Press
In a consent decree quickly reached after a lawsuit last month, the city of Hamtramck has agreed to provide Bengali-language ballots and other assistance for the city’s Bangladeshi-American voters.
The move comes just weeks before the Aug. 3 primary as the Bangl...
NEW YORK, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will be distributing informational handouts and other supplies to residents of Chinatown to educate the public on how to respond to anti-Asian violence. Materials will be available in the Chinese, English, and Korean languag...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) deplores the federal district court’s July 16, 2021 decision in Texas vs U.S., a challenge led by the State of Texas to the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, which found DACA unlawful. Effective immediately, U.S. D...
Despite the setback in a Texas court ruling on DACA, the fight for path to citizenship for immigrant youth and undocumented individuals will continue says the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, AALDEF.
In a statement released July 19, the organization deplored the July 16, 2021 ruling...
Yes, I am still talking about ESPN’s Stephen A.Smith’s remarks about an Asian being the biggest star in baseball, America’s national pastime.
Hate needs to be called out.
Listen to my show No. 94 on www.amok.com to hear the audio tape, where Smith singles out Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani ...
