Dr. Toribio Flores is an ear, nose, and throat guy at the Cleveland Clinic. And he’s going to the Republican Convention.
“I’m not afraid,” he tells me.
But I know most of America is.
We’ve arrived at the point many of us have been dreading. The GOP is all set to be re-branded Trump’s Old Party,...
When Dallas happened, I was already upset by the shootings all over the world this summer, from Bangladesh to Baton Rouge and Minnesota. But I was in Berkeley, Calif., where I was hoping a little art would help.
Berkeley already puts me in another world. But I was in yet another subworld because I ...
I hope you have a bang up July Fourth.
Our country and the world could use a good explosive, safe, and sane display of freedom and liberty.
We’ve had too much of the opposite, the stifling, intimidating, freedom-robbing violence that puts all of us, and the world, on edge.
From Orlando, Florida, ...
NBC News - Asian Americans were among those who encountered snags voting at New York City polling sites during Tuesday’s congressional primary, according to the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)…
India West - Indian Americans and Asian American community organizations were split in their response to a Supreme Court ruling June 23 that upheld the constitutionality of the race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas…
NBC News - Three years after the Supreme Court invalidated part of the Voting Rights Act, voting rights advocates and some elected officials are concerned that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are among those increasingly threatened by voter discrimination…
Slate - There are a lot of reasons to celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher vs. University of Texas II and the seemingly dogged persistence of affirmative action in higher education. The decision may slow the three decade-long attack…
NBC News - Asian-American advocacy groups and elected officials voiced disappointment with a 4-4 Supreme Court split Thursday that will prevent President Barack Obama from carrying out an executive action on immigration…
NBC News - The U.S. Supreme Court’s 4-3 vote Thursday to uphold the affirmative action policy at the University of Texas at Austin generally received praise from Asian-American advocacy groups and elected officials…
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) applaud the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion released today in Fisher v. University of Texas. The Court ruled 4-3 in favor...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) joined civil rights and pro-immigrant advocacy groups in criticizing today’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in United States v. Texas as a setback for immigrants and their families. In a 4-4 vote, the Court let stand a lower court decision uph...
AsAm News - By a 4-3 majority, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the use of race in admissions at the University of Texas as constitutional. The case was filed by Abigail Fisher…
AsAm News - President Obama’s executive order protecting millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and allowing them to work has been blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices deadlocked 4-4…
Center for American Progress - This month marks the fourth anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, initiative, which grants a temporary reprieve from deportation and the opportunity to request work authorization…
With Orlando still fresh in the national consciousness, is there anyone who doesn’t know what constitutes a hate crime?
And yet, when it comes to Asian Americans, America has not always been sure.
That is one of the main lessons of the classic case of Vincent Chin, when the legal system stumbled b...
Father’s Day is this weekend, so I’m thinking about my dad, again.
After all these years, and despite my own dear children, I still defer to my late father.
It’s still his day.
And now suddenly, thanks to Orlando and Donald Trump, it really does feel like the late 1920s and 1930s again in America...
On the occurrence of the worst mass shooting and act of domestic terror in U.S. history, this is the kind of diversity we don’t like to talk about.
The perp is one of us.
The alleged shooter is 29-year-old Omar Siddiqui Mateen, born in New York to Afghani immigrants. Mateen’s an American of South ...
I was still a small boy when I first heard Muhammad Ali’s infamous declaration that all the world heard. And remembered.
It was the bellow of self-esteem that came deep from within Ali.
It struck me deep in the heart.
He was the greatest?
I took him at his word. There was no question.
In Februa...
Hillary Clinton changed her schedule and is back in California campaigning again. And it wasn’t just to give that policy speech in San Diego.
Her words were like scuds at the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, of the now defunct Trump University.
Clinton could have given that speec...
NBC News - More than 150 organizations serving the Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander population have signed on to an open letter supporting affirmative action in higher education…
