The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and 34 Asian American groups and higher education faculty today filed an amicus “friend of the court” brief in Massachusetts federal court, opposing a challenge to Harvard’s race-conscious admissions policy (Students for Fair Admissions (S...
When Richard Nixon died, I recalled writing his obit while working in Washington, DC. Here was the man who, until recently, may have been the worst president ever who considered himself above the law. But apparently, that’s like high-rise living. There’s always someone one floor above you.
Still, w...
One of the biggest laughs I got on Friday was when I welcomed people to my one-man show, “Amok Monologues: All Pucked up-NPR, Harvard and more,” and referred to it as “Crazy Poor Asian.”
“Crazy Poor Asian!”
Unfortunately, many in the mostly Asian American crowd could relate. And that’s what we sho...
I’m crestfallen, recovering from the news that my friend Dawn Mabalon, a tenured professor and scholar in U.S. History at San Francisco State University, specializing in Filipinos in the American Labor movement, has died.
Dawn was a bright, energetic ball of fire who took American Filipinos and U.S...
For the first time, I’m doing my full show at the Manilatown Center next to the historic I-Hotel site in San Francisco on Friday, Aug. 17 at 7:30 pm. It’s called the “Amok Monologues: All Pucked Up; NPR, Harvard, and more,” and it’s not really a semi-shameless plug.
Prepping the show for the 17th h...
When it comes to the future of affirmative action, look to California, where all the Asian Americans are.
Don’t look to Harvard and the lawsuit being waged against that school, which may ultimately make its way to the Supreme Court.
That case is more like a crimson-tinted red herring.
It’s being ...
Gotham Gazette - The New York City Charter Revision Commission called by Mayor Bill de Blasio convened on Tuesday afternoon to collect expert testimony on ways to foster increased participation in municipal elections…
https://www.gothamgazette.com/city/7733-mayoral-charter-revision-commission-hears...
On Monday evening, President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement. The next justice could have a lasting impact on the Court for decades to come.
At stake for the Asian American community is the future of...
Longview News-Journal - The Committee of
100 (C100), with United Chinese Americans (UCA), the Ohio Chinese American Association (OCAA) and nine additional community groups, demand justice for civil servant Sherry Chen. These organizations express concern over the Department of Commerce’s June 18, 2...
Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Sonia Sotomayor showed how deeply divided this country is when they courageously spoke from the bench to condemn the majority 5-4 decision in favor of the Trump travel ban.
But it’s Sotomayor’s historical twist that deserves the headline as she invoked the name Ko...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education deplores the U.S. Supreme Court opinion released today in Trump v. Hawai’i as a setback for this country’s immigrants, refugees, and their families. By a 5-4 vote, the Court upheld the discriminatory targeting and exclusion of nationals from mostly Musl...
Huffington Post - Korean-Americans have been speaking out against a New Jersey mayor’s mother after she made racist comments.
Holding posters and American flags, hundreds of people rallied in the city of Palisades Park on Sunday, after Lorraine Rotundo, mayor James Rotundo’s mother, posted racist F...
Orlando…Until I arrived here in rainy central Florida, I almost forgot that two years ago on June 12, Orlando was the scene of the worst case of mass gun death in U.S. history.
The Pulse nightclub, June 12, 2016. Do you even remember?
We’ve had so many other shooting incidents since then. Las Ve...
The Grio - Nicki Minaj fans will have to wait a little longer for rapper to drop her much-anticipated album. Minaj took to Instagram in a live post and announced that her new album, Queen, is being pushed back to August 10, and won’t be released June 15, as previously expected.
https://thegrio.com/2...
KPBS - With the California primary two weeks away, “get out the vote” operations are underway, and founders of a newly launched organization are targeting an ethnic group they feel is overlooked.
Viet Vote aims to boost civic engagement among San Diego’s Vietnamese community, one of the largest in ...
Yes, we know Asian Americans are not a monolith. But pop culture is about to give us all a facelift. This is fair warning if you are one of the baby boomer Asian Americans, offspring of the early pioneer immigrants, both before and after 1965. If you were a descendent of legendary civil rights plain...
New York, NY…A Manhattan federal court ruled on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, that the owner of the Kum Gang San restaurants, Ji Sung Yoo, fraudulently transferred his property to his wife in order to avoid paying a wage theft judgment of $2.7 million to 11 Asian and Latino workers.
The court also ord...
From an Asian American perspective, there are certain times when we find ourselves faced with issues bigger than the concerns of our collective ethnicities–Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Korean, et al.
In other words, the Asian part is less important than the American part in our umbrella phrase of uni...
Over the Easter weekend, Donald Trump was resurrecting his anti-immigrant rhetoric in tweets and off-handed comments. First, he blasted California for issuing pardons to a group that included three Asian Americans subject to deportation. Then he tweeted he’s changed his mind on DACA and that he woul...
Why all the hubbub about a citizenship question in the 2020 Census?
The truth is the government already has all the information it needs.
Every ten years comes the official Census. But that doesn’t mean government workers for the next decade pass the time by twiddling an abacus.
Each year there’s...
