We Asian Americans are in excess of 20 million people. But do we count? Do we show up anywhere?
That’s our unique political conundrum. And it doesn’t matter if you’re newly arrived, or born here, or a multi-race Asian. Does it mean anything to be Asian American if we don’t show up?
I mean in polit...
Our democracy is at stake in the 2020 presidential election. We need your help to ensure that Asian Americans can exercise their fundamental right to vote.
On November 3, AALDEF will dispatch attorneys and volunteers to polling places across the country to document voter problems and the availabili...
Amy Coney Barrett is playing it safe, not saying a thing. Just trying to look above the fray, as a judge and mother of seven (including two adopted from Haiti), as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers her nomination as a Supreme Court justice.
She’s no Kavanaugh (and all that entails). But she’...
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For me tonight’s debate reminds me of a song from 1963. You know it when you hear it. And when you see it: “Just one look, that’s all it took.”
If Veep debates were so important, we’d still be quoting lines from that memorable Pence/Kaine debate four years ago.
We’re not.
But ...
Newsweek - Republican President Donald Trump seems to have deleted a tweet posted Monday evening at 5:54 pm E.T. which called COVID-19 “the Chinese virus” and inadvertently included the email address of New York Post writer Miranda Devine.
The tweets, with Devine’s email address removed, quoted som...
In a tweeted video, the president said on Sunday, he “learned a lot about Covid.”
At least he didn’t call it the China Flu.
He didn’t acquire this wisdom on Zoom; he learned it while being a sick patient at Walter Reed Medical Center. “This is the real school,” said Trump. “This isn’t the ‘Let’s r...
Sampan - With the 2020 presidential election approaching, political participation and civic engagement are more crucial than ever. According to the Pew Research Center, Asian Americans are the fastest growing body of eligible voters out of the United States’ major ethnic and racial groups. In the Gr...
Out in California, the fires were hotter than the presidential debate. People were evacuating their homes in Northern California’s wine country.
And what about the friends and family of the more than 200,000 Americans who have died of Covid? Or the 28,000 Disney workers who joined the nearly 30 mil...
Thanks to Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District in California, you may have more time to get counted in the 2020 Census, if you haven’t done so already.
On Friday, Judge Koh issued a preliminary injunction that bars the Trump administration from accelerating the Census...
On Tuesday, September 22, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will be in Manhattan’s Chinatown to celebrate National Voter Registration Day and to assist Asian Americans to register and vote in the 2020 elections.
AALDEF, a community partner of National Voter Registration D...
There should be an Asian American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
But at least Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was there for us.
For anyone concerned with justice and equality, we were lucky that Ginsburg was the doorstop when others tried to shut us all out.
Born 87 years ago in Brooklyn, New Yor...
For Asian Americans, polls are a vast wasteland where we don’t exist. Mainstream exit polls that dare mention Asian Americans are unreliable. Which is why my favorite of all polls are the AALDEF exit polls (coming up in November), in language, on the spot talking to real people about what they just ...
Broadway World - Greater Boston Stage Company will present Empress Mei Li Lotus Blossom, written by the Obie Award winning Christine Toy Johnson, this will be a five day only virtual event. . .
The entire process from auditions through rehearsals to performance has been conducted via Zoom, a new ex...
City Limits - New voter registration across New York City has dropped by nearly half in 2020 compared to the last presidential election year in 2016.
Between January and June, only about 80,000 people registered to vote across the city, compared to 155,000 people during the same period in 2016, acc...
I’d like to take a deep breath and consider what I’m hearing in the news, but I’m in California.
In our most Asian American state, no matter where you are, you can’t escape all the fire and the flames. It’s sort of like news on the latest Trump outrage. Smoke drifts in and discolors everything, tur...
With Labor Day coming up, here’s a perennial question that must be asked again and again at this time every year until everyone gets it right.
Can you name a great Asian American labor leader who’s a household name or should be?
Perhaps a name equal to Cesar Chavez?
If an answer doesn’t roll off ...
Dallas Morning News - In late March, a man walked up to OMG Tacos, an Asian fusion restaurant in Richardson. The restaurant had closed its doors earlier that month and was operating through a makeshift service window.
‘Hey, do you have the coronavirus?’ he asked. The employee handling his order was...
Did you stay to the very end of the bizarre Trumpian cavalcade of mistruths, a/k/a/ The Donald’s acceptance speech at the Covid-compromised Republican National Convention?
If not, you likely missed the part of the RNC that was the most Asian American.
Mind you, this was not a GOP convention the li...
The latest survey from AAPI Data may show Asian Americans backing Biden by 59 percent, but take away the undecideds and nearly 1 in 3 of us still support Trump. Thirty-three percent is a pretty big number, one that rivals Hispanics for Trumpiest people of color in the country.
Based on the ethnic b...
When Day 4 of the Democratic National Convention was over, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stood with their spouses on an outdoor stage in Wilmington, Delaware and watched the fireworks burst skyward. I’d expect the convention bounce poll numbers to boom similarly.
The candidates deserved the fireworks...
