Not to brag, but I got the vaccine.
I’m not a food worker, an educator (not presently), or a med worker. Just an unboomed Boomer waiting for my needle. And I finally got it. The Moderna, the one that sounds like it belongs on the shelf next to Gucci and Dolce Gabbana. Pfizer? They didn’t offer it a...
City and State NY - Asian Americans are facing twin crises: the COVID-19 pandemic and a wave of hate. . .
City & State reached out to the following experts to hear their thoughts on how to stem the wave of hate against Asian Americans in New York City: Jo-Ann Yoo, executive director of the Asian Am...
The AALDEF Lunar New Year Gala is coming up on Thursday, March 4 with a difference. You’re going to have to bring your own dinner. It’s an online event, so you’re in charge of your own glam and chow, on your personal sliding scale. You still can see some great awardees on your screen, like the Daily...
NBC News - As the recent wave of attacks on older Asian Americans prompts calls for action and activism, experts urge the use of precise, accurate language in discussing the violence. . .
Social media posts have conflated violence against people who are Asian American with hate crimes against the c...
Tiger Woods got major media coverage this week. And now everyone knows about Woods’ roll-over accident in Southern California that nearly killed him. Thankfully, he’ll walk again.
But Angelo Quinto won’t.
Woods wasn’t the only Asian American who deserved some headlines.
This week, Quinto got loca...
Join AALDEF and RAISE (Revolutionizing Asian American Immigrant Stories on the East Coast) for our next virtual immigration clinic on Thursday, February 25 at 6 pm ET. . AALDEF attorneys will provide updates on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and President Biden’s proposed immigration ...
Variety - Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, hate crimes against Asian Americans have been on the rise. According to the advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate, there have been up to 2,800 incidents reported since last March. In New York City alone, there was an 867% increase in Asian hate crime victi...
On the day we remember Executive Order 9066, the act of governance by President Franklin Roosevelt that rounded up and incarcerated innocent Asians, we must acknowledge we live in times when Asian Americans are simply randomly beaten up and killed in public.
Xenophobia lives.
And now, just this we...
CBS New York - A woman is recovering after being assaulted outside a Queens bakery.
Police are investigating this as possibly the latest in a string of recent hate crimes. . .
Video posted to social media by the victim’s daughter shows a 52-year-old woman being pushed to the ground on Roosevelt Av...
As a national network of local and national Asian American organizations and individuals that convened in the wake of the pandemic a year ago, we have been working together to share best practices and lessons learned from responding to anti-Asian violence.
We are horrified by the continuing acts of...
New York Magazine - In the span of just one week, the Asian American community has suffered a series of racist, violent attacks. 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee was murdered in San Francisco. A 91-year-old man was viciously shoved to the ground in Oakland’s Chinatown. A 64-year-old grandmother was as...
Rep. Ted Lieu was a House Manager for the second impeachment. And Sen. Mazie Hirono was there to vote to convict. The diverse Democrats led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, did a great job in presenting the case for truth. But it appears that nothing will put an appropriate close to the nightmare in American d...
On Feb. 12, 2021, AALDEF submitted a letter to U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler, expressing support for H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. The Commission would prompt a national conversation about the legacy of slavery upon A...
Super Bowl LV was not very lively. As the Weeknd and his masks began to outshine the super-spreader game itself, I kept thinking of another more appropriate Tampa Bay champ, at least for the first week of Black History Month.
You do want to properly appreciate a significant Asian part of Black hist...
NBC News - Corky Lee often photographed the underchronicled stories: a young child with her mother in a sweatshop, a protester with blood rushing down his face and a re-enactment ceremony for the Chinese immigrants who were excluded from photographs of the completion of the transcontinental railroad...
I didn’t have a photograph. But on my podcast, I can hear his voice.
I’m still thinking about my old pal, the Asian American photographer Corky Lee, and the injustice of his life ending to Covid.
It’s been just about a year since the first U.S. Covid death (Feb. 6, 2020, Santa Clara, Calif).
The ...
“Hey, Emil,” Corky would say.
It was always the opener from my pal Corky Lee, our self-described Asian American photographer laureate. After 73 years, he earned that title for being the man who always had a camera and was always there at every significant Asian American moment.
He saw it all, docu...
Corky Lee, the “Unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate” and a friend to AALDEF for more than four decades, passed away on January 27 from Covid-19 complications at age 73. More than a man with a camera, he was a historian with a cyclopedic knowledge of people and events in Asian American co...
If you need a night and day moment on how the nation changed between the last administration and the present, look at one of the four executive orders President Biden signed on Tuesday, January 26.
It’s a memo that lifts up the shade that covers us and lets everyone see us for once. Titled “Memoran...
Today, President Joe Biden issued a Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
AALDEF issued the following statement:
With more than 2,800 reported anti-Asian hate incidents since the start of the Covi...
