The Summer Olympics, the great quadrennial global escape, is over, and now we can all go back to worrying about Zika, Brazil’s impending impeachment of its President Dilma Rousseff, and the games’ biggest news story, American Ryan Lochte’s gold medal prevarication on vandalism, public urination and ...
Courthouse News Service - Texas officials got up swinging this week after a federal judge found the state’s exclusion of interpreters at polling sites unconstitutional, and said they will ask the Supreme Court to reverse another ruling….
St. Paul Asian American Press - The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) applauded a federal court order blocking the Texas law that limits access to interpreters for limited English proficient (LEP) voters…
China Daily USA - A ruling by a federal judge will enable residents of Texas with little or no understanding of English to have any interpreter help them on election day in the voting booth. US District Judge Robert Pitman on Aug 12 blocked a Texas state law…
NBC News - In a ove that some say affirms the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a Federal judge in Texas has agreed with Asian-American activists who claimed existing Texas election code unfairly kept voters with language needs from choosing the help they want…
Houston Chronicle - Voting rights advocates are poised to propose changes to help voters who face language barriers at the polls after a federal judge ruled recently that a provision of Texas law violated the Voting Rights Act…
Asian American voters entitled to interpreters of their choice under Voting Rights Act
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) applauded a federal court order blocking the Texas law that limits access to interpreters for limited English proficient voters. The district court r...
The best thing about last weekend’s Asian American Journalists Association convention in Las Vegas wasn’t necessarily the Presidential Election Forum, co-presented with APIAVote.
Oh, yeah, President Bill Clinton showed up. He’s running for First Grandpa. More on him later in this column.
But no ...
Just when you thought it was bad enough he upset Filipinos worldwide–including the 4 million Asian Americans of Filipino descent in the U.S.–Donald Trump couldn’t leave well enough alone.
Or maybe to erase the memory of denigrating all Filipinos as terrorists in a previous news cycle, Trump felt he...
On Friday, Hillary Clinton was at a joint meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists/National Association of Hispanic Journalists and mentioned a South Asian American, Khizr Khan.
The Constitution-toting Khan has become democracy’s “model minority supreme.”
The South Asian immigrant,...
AsAm News - The last thing someone hired to do outreach to the Asian vote needed was some offensive comments he made about the Asian community. But as the NY Post reports, that’s what happened to Daniel Randell…
New York Post - A young political operative disparaged Asians on social media–and then landed a job requiring him to solicit their votes for a state Senate candidate, The Post has learned. “Dear Asians, at least wear name tags or something…”
Two candidates forums wlll be held in Manhattan and Flushing, where Asian American candidates are running in Assembly District 65 (Manhattan/Lower East Side) and Senate District 16 (Flushing, Elmhurst, Fresh Meadows, Bayside) in the Democratic primary elections on Tuesday, September 13, 2016.
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She’s not using the middle name anymore. Maybe that’s because it’s a new era. She’s her own woman now.
But Hillary always had me at Rodham. Her father, Hugh, was a Navy chief petty officer who became a salesman, then started his own drapery business out of Chicago. And on the Howell side, her mothe...
Asian Journal - The announcement of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) as Hillary Clinton’s running mate was met with mixed reactions. Critics felt the generally unknown junior senator was an underwhelming pick for the high profile Democratic presidential nominee…
The Lo-Down - Years after an unprecedented neighborhood preservation effort got underway, city planning officials, Community Board 3 and local elected officials have finally begun talks about a rezoning of Chinatown…
NBC News - Arriving by bus at their hotel Sunday afternoon, Asian-American delegates from Virginia were energized about a Clinton-Kaine ticket, even as U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida announced she would step down…
Considering the evangelical tilt of the GOP, the only time Donald Trump came close to talking about God in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention was when he talked about himself.
“I am your voice,” Trump declared to the American people.
If you ever wanted to speak in tongues,...
On June 21, 2016, Grace Yachueng Hwang–attorney, teacher, community activist, and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Board member–died at the Good Shepherd Hospice House in Manhattan, Kansas after a long bout with cancer. She was 60.
AALDEF board president Tommy Shi said: “On behalf ...
Arirang TV - A group of Korean American students are approaching shoppers in Fort Lee, New Jersey, aiming to help them with voter registration. They are summer interns at a civic organization, called Korean American Civic Empowerment…
