Slate - Shahed Alam, dressed in a trim black suit, is pacing outside a marriage hall in Queens, talking to himself about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Inside, past an ivory-keyed grand piano, raindrop chandeliers, and an elegant staircase…
AALDEF criticized a racist segment that appeared on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Report” on Oct. 4, 2016, featuring interviews of people in New York’s Chinatown by Fox commentator Jesse Watters. AALDEF’s letter to Fox News Channel co-presidents Jack Abernathy and Bill Shine can be downloaded her...
Media Matters - The president of the Asian American Journalists Association is heavily criticizing Fox News for airing a segment that “was rife with racist stereotypes.” Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor aired an October 3 segment…
Politico - Asian American groups and reporters are crying foul at Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters for a recent segment in which he visited Manhattan’s Chinatown. In the segment, which aired Monday night during “The O’Reilly Factor,”…
Mediaite - Earlier today, we told you about the new Jesse Watters video that has been causing a stir. We also told you that Bill O’Reilly himself admitted that Fox News would be getting a lot of “letters” over the clip, which featured Watters running through Chinatown..
Today, you’ll learn more about Asian Americans and the presidential campaign from the just released 2016 National Asian American Survey than you will from that Veep debate last night.
Did you watch the Veep Debate–where the TV show “Veep” is better known than either Tim Kaine or Mike Pence?
It’s...
CNBC - A Fox News segment that pokes fun at Asian stereotypes is causing outrage online, with many calling the piece racist.
On Monday, Fox News reporter Jesse Watters went to Chinatown in New York to interview people about the U.S. election for a segmenton “The O’Reilly Factor” called “Watters’ Wo...
Washington Post - The backlash to “Mail Order Family” was immediate. Word broke last week that NBC had purchased a half-hour comedy that “follows a widowed single father who orders a mail-order bride from the Philippines…
As October begins, and Asian America’s more than 4 million Filipinos commemorate Filipino American History Month (as designated by the Filipino American National Historical Society), there’s a new twist in the U.S.-Philippines relationship.
The current Philippine president is a man who says publicl...
I’ve had pneumonia before, and it knocked me on my butt for nearly two weeks.
So to see Hillary Clinton bounce back to continue her presidential campaign has earned her “Iron Woman” status in my eyes.
But I’ve seen her in action and bounce back all throughout her career. There was the stinging set...
Producer/Writer Alan Yang had the answer to Asian American invisibility in all of Hollywood. And he said it on the Emmys telecast live before millions watching around the nation.
He had just won the comedy writing Emmy for co-authoring the “Parents” episode with comedian Aziz Ansari in the Netflix ...
NBC News - The New York County Democratic Committee has reportedly reversed its decision late last month not to nominate an Asian-American state judge for reelection this fall, according to the New York Post…
Plains, Georgia…In the land of presidential peanut farmers, I found myself to be the only full-blooded Filipino in the room at Maranatha Baptist Church, the spiritual home base for No. 39, President Jimmy Carter.
And when the president looked into the pews and asked from where people hailed, I prou...
Manhattan Express News - The New York County Democratic Party and its vaunted independent screening panel for approving judges for the ballot has come under scorching outrage for the panel’s refusal to recommend Justice Doris Ling-Cohan…
On Sept. 7, there will be protests at every Philippine Embassy and consulate throughout the world, including New York and San Francisco, as part of a massive global demonstration against the proposed hero’s burial for the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Will it match the kind of anti-Marcos fervor ...
New York City…AALDEF executive director Margaret Fung spoke at a rally and press conference at City Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 6, to support New York Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan, who is facing re-election this year. We issued the following statement:
We are disappointed to learn that Doris...
New York Observer - As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reiterated his plans to deport immigrants if elected president, a White House senior policy advisor and advocates for the Asian and Pacific Islander communities…
I had never been to the Philippines ever, or since.
But I was there in the homeland of my parents on one of the most important days in the history of that country–Aug. 31, 1983.
As a young American Filipino reporter for the NBC affiliate in San Francisco, I had convinced my bosses that the death o...
Yahoo News - Beth Vang grew up with a conflicted view of civic life. Vang, a 21-year-old college student, lives near St. Paul, Minnesota, in one of the largest Hmong communities in the U.S. In traditional Hmong culture, Vang said only the elite discuss politics…
On Thursday, September 1, 2016, the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), CUNY Center for Community and Ethnic Media (CCEM), Asian American Federation (AAF), MinKwon Center for Community Action, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), and the White House Initiative on Asian Americ...
