In case you didn’t know, Asian Americans were among the lynched in the U.S.
And since October is Filipino American History Month, it’s worth noting that Filipinos in particular were targeted in California.
But first, it’s galling to find lynching back in the news just because the president of the ...
A federal judge halted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from implementing its controversial “public charge” rule, a policy change that advocacy groups assert would have disproportionately blocked immigrants of color from obtaining permanent resident status and inhibited immigrant workers an...
If Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren or anyone else wanted to make a splash at this week’s debate, they should have raised a more important issue than a national health plan.
A national diet is more like it.
And I don’t mean the Trumpian diet of Big Macs and Whoppers.
Sanders just had a heart at...
Today, AALDEF submitted testimony to the New York State Senate Internet and Technology Committee, which held a hearing to “identify the needs of workers and employers operating outside the traditional employee-employer dynamic and determine possible legislative avenues.” AALDEF called for the equal ...
On September 10 and October 10, 2019, AALDEF Democracy Program attorney Patricia Yan testified at public hearings in Austin and Dallas organized by the Texas House Redistricting Committee, urging the state to keep Asian American communities together in new political districts drawn after the 2020 Ce...
The vast majority of Asian Americans live in California, so chances are, you know someone in the grips of what I’m calling “The Great Forced Blackout of October 2019.”
Starting today (Oct. 9, which, coincidentally, is my birthday) Pacific Gas and Electric has blown out my birthday candles, affectin...
The City of Philadelphia has reached an agreement with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) to settle a lawsuit over the City’s 11 P.M. Ordinance. AALDEF, with pro bono counsel Pepper Hamilton LLP, filed this lawsuit, Liu v. City of Philadelphia, on behalf of 23 Chinese takeo...
The decision by Federal Judge Allison Burroughs in the Harvard admissions case on Tuesday was just what we needed in this country.
It was a reminder that the process of achieving racial equity in admissions to Harvard is a step in the right direction, and that maintaining diversity is still the rig...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today praised the decision by a federal court in Massachusetts, which found that Harvard University’s race-conscious admissions policy is constitutional and does not discriminate against Asian Americans.
AALDEF executive director Margaret...
Hello Asian American Trump supporters. You know who you are.
After this week’s whistleblower revelations in the Trump-Ukraine Affair, are you sticking with your guy and swallowing your own whistle?
Or are you blowing harder than ever—like a patriot– to save our American democracy and repudiate the...
Washington Post - President Trump — and his views on immigration, Muslims and foreign affairs — isn’t popular with Indian Americans. That’s not likely to change much, so why did Trump travel to Houston over the weekend to appear with the recently reelected Indian prime minister before thousands of t...
I knew it was going to happen early Tuesday when I saw reports that Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, the civil rights icon, was on the floor of the House calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump.
It was the signal to all people of color.
You awake? The time has come.
But if Trump is to be impeached...
New York Times - President Trump played second fiddle on Sunday to Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, at a boisterous cultural rally in which the American president was technically just an invited guest.
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Indian-Americans have supported both Democrats and Republicans in the past, thoug...
New York Times - President Trump played second fiddle on Sunday to Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, at a boisterous cultural rally in which the American president was technically just an invited guest.
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Indian-Americans have supported both Democrats and Republicans in the past, thoug...
Politico - HOUSTON — It wasn’t your typical Trump campaign rally. Instead of red Make America Great Again hats, there were turbans and Islamic caps. Women in traditional Indian garb danced to bhangra drums. And tens of thousands of cheering Indian Americans chanted “USA!” and snapped photos.
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Hooray. NBC and Saturday Night Live did something right for a change.
But wait.
Surely, there are bigger fish to fry than the firing of the wayward racist Shane Gillis, right?
Of course, there are. And I will mention a big one in a sec.
But for now take a moment to pat yourself on the back if yo...
Agence France-Presse - President Donald Trump will join Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a massive gathering of Indian-Americans in Houston, the White House said Sunday, in a symbolic show of the bond between the two leaders and countries.
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Some 84 percent of Indian-Americans voted in 2016 for h...
Andrew Yang wants to be president. And he’ll give you $1,000 dollars a month.
Bowen Yang wants to be a star on NBC Saturday Night Live. You just have to sit through all the commercials.
Which is more important? Don’t kid yourself.
Bowen Yang on a cultural barometer like SNL means a lot more to Am...
I always look at the famous AP photograph on 9/11. Just a glance. It’s all I can take.
For me more than the names being read, and the fake solemnity of the current president, nothing captures the horror quite like the moment of the falling man.
The falling, tumbling person has never been identifie...
Sixty Immigrant and Civil Rights Groups Join Amicus Brief
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), Advancing Justice | AAJC (Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC), and the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), along with pro bono counsel Crowell Moring, filed amicus br...
