The Atlantic Cities – A good rule of thumb to assess changing demographics in a Chinatown: the share of Asian versus non-Asian restaurants in the neighborhood. This is according to a new land-use study of the three largest East Coast Chinatowns…
Wired – In many North American cities, Chinatowns have been home to vibrant communities of Asian immigrants since the mid-19th century. But the character of these neighborhoods is changing fast, according to a new report (pdf)….
AFP – Faced with a proliferation of luxury housing and chain stores, America’s Chinatowns risk extinction as new immigrants are priced out of city centers, an advocacy group said Wednesday. A study found that foreign-born…
TIME – Raise is the brainchild of the Revolutionizing Asian American Immigrant Stories on the East Coast group, and tells the stories of young undocumented Asian Americans. Its updates - written by the kids themselves - are equal parts poignant and touching…
Associated Press – A federal judge has ordered a central New Jersey town to consider an application to build a mosque without applying restrictive new zoning rules passed two months after the project was proposed…
Racialicious – No one promises junior high school will be easy. But for Pawanpreet Singh, a tall and mild-mannered Sikh-American teenager, junior high was overshadowed with the memories of classmates calling him “Osama” and “terrorist”…
Racialicious – No one promises junior high school will be easy. But for Pawanpreet Singh, a tall and mild-mannered Sikh-American teenager, junior high was overshadowed with the memories of classmates calling him “Osama” and “terrorist”…
Bergen Record – She had barely finished her dream walk, crown on head, scepter in hand, when the vitriolic reaction started flooding Twitter. Nina Davuluri was named the 2014 Miss America Sunday night in Atlantic City…
New York Times – Dented, dinged and dated, New York’s battleship-gray lever voting machines have been hauled out of retirement because the city can’t seem to get the hang of electronic voting…
Colorlines – Back in 2008, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Schools Chancellor Joel Klein announced an ambitious new initiative to try to help curb bullying in the Big Apple’s classrooms. The plan included…
New York Daily News – The “snapshot” study of more than 160 Asian American public school students by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Sikh Coalition was released Thursday…
CBS – Some Asian American students are hoping the new school year brings an end to bullying in the New York City school system. A new report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Sikh Coalition…
Washington Post – A report released Thursday (Sept. 5) by two civil rights groups found a dramatic spike in bullying of Asian-American students in New York City public schools. The report by the Sikh Coalition and the Asian American Legal Defense …
WPIX TV – Sikh Coalition director Amardeep Singh’s did not hold back when expressing his reaction to a report released Thursday detailing a greater than 20% increase of Asian-American students getting bullied inside of city schools…
NY1 News – In light of new statistics from a joint study released on Thursday, anti-bullying advocates say city public schools still needs to make changes when it comes to protecting Asian American students, especially those of the Sikh faith…
Times Picayune – When the Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association filed a civil rights complaint with the federal departments of education and justice on Friday…
The Advocate – Two advocacy groups filed a civil rights complaint Friday with the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of 11 Vietnamese and Latino parents whose children are enrolled in several New Orleans schools…
The Times Picayune – Two groups are set to file a federal complaint that several eastern New Orleans schools are violating civil rights law by failing adequately to serve non-native English-speaking families. VAYLA and the national AALDEF…
The Advocate – Myra Silva stepped up to the microphone, exuding confidence in her loud, clear voice, but just a few words into her story about being a bilingual student, the 19-year-old’s voice broke, her eyes welling up with tears…
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