ATTN - America’s cities may be home to individuals belonging to thousands of cultural groups and myriad socioeconomic statuses. But these urban centers are surprisingly no melting pot. As Nate Silver pointed out in several infographics…
NBC News - Tian Wang is 32, a freelance investor, and he hates people wo enter the country illegally. “Why would you like anybody who’s illegal?” he told NBC News. Wang isn’t one to mince his words, which is why he says he likes Donald Trump…
In 1996, Asian Americans suffered from what I dubbed our ACDC problem: The Asian Campaign Donation Controversy.
And it definitely disrupted Asian American involvement in the U.S. political process for at least a decade.
So when CNN reported this week that the Justice Department’s Public Integrity ...
Manhattan Times - There was no malice–and no master plan. So insisted the New York City Board of Elections (BOE) Executive Director Michael Ryan, as he was pressed by federal lawmakers last Friday to explain recent issues…
Fusion - A group representing Asian-American students and their parents have filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, alleging that Yale, Brown and Dartmouth are discriminating against Asian-Americans by implementing…
Boston Globe - Gloria Chin climbs up a tight stairwell inside of 49 Beach St., a Chinatown apartment building with stained white walls, narrow hallways, and pink doors leading to 40 units crowded with families…
When Joyce Xi graduates from college next week, I hope the celebratory pride and joy she and her family experience will be so tremendous, it will blast away the cloud of suspicion and shame that has hovered over them the last year, once and for all.
That’s always the hope when you come to a “good” ...
NBC News - A New Jersey township planning board’s alleged application of different land-use standards for a proposal to build a mosque violated federal law and is an “affront to our nation’s commitment to religious liberty for all,”…
NBC News - A New Jersey township planning board’s alleged application of different land-use standards for a proposal to build a mosque violated federal law and is an “affront to our nation’s commitment to religious liberty for all…
With everything so presumptive in politics these days, it’s easy to see why the primary season has turned secondary.
So Donald Trump crushing his GOP opponents in Nebraska and West Virginia was just page A4 in my morning newspaper on Wednesday morning. (Oh yeah, newspapers, I still read them. But I...
NBC News - The New York City Board of Elections suspended a second official without pay amid allegations that at least 120,000 names were purged from voter rolls in Brooklyn ahead of the presidential primaries last month…
Happy Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (the official name signed into law, as per President George H.W. Bush‘s pen), or Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, or AANHPI Month.
By whatever name you choose, it’s still May–our time to revel in our Asian-ness and help people understan...
Gothamist - The director of the city Board of Elections apologized for voter registration and Primary Day polling place problems on Tuesday at a heated meeting of the board’s commissioners…
NBC News - Voter advocates and elected officials gathered on the steps of New York City Hall Monday morning to call for election reform in the wake of reported voter irregularities in last week’s state presidential primaries and special elections…
NBC News - Voters in Williamson County, Texas, will have the freedom to choose any translator they like to help them while voting after the county settled a lawsuit filed by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund…
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), Williamson County, and the Williamson County Elections Department have settled a federal voting rights lawsuit challenging the Texas state law that requires all interpreters to be registered voters in the county in which they provide lang...
For an Asian American guy like me, who has a penchant to go amok, Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy,” with its purple banana reference, was always a favorite.
But now the lyrics seemed to have a divine message:
‘Cause in this life Things are much harder than in the after world In this life You’re on your o...
New York, NY — Asian American voters in New York’s Chinatown strongly supported Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the April 19 presidential primary elections, according to preliminary results of a bilingual exit poll conducted by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF).
In ...
New York, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based national civil rights organization, will dispatch attorneys and volunteers to document voter problems and the availability of language assistance on Election Day, April 19, in New York City.
In addition to...
NPR - The next presidential primary battle has arrived in a state with one of the country’s largest Asian populations. A bulk of New York’s more than 903,000 eligible Asian-American voters lives in New York City, where 24-year-old Brenda Nguyen…
