NPR - It was one of four questions the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund was tracking among voters in the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S. Other topics included gun control, LGBT discrimination and immigration…
Color lines were broken on April 15, 1947, almost a generation before the Civil Rights Act.
That still left a lot of barriers to break down, even after Jackie Robinson took his first step into fair territory on a major league diamond.
Surely, you didn’t see a lot of Asian Americans on baseball t...
NBC News - Twenty-one years ago, Qinglan Huang was in her midtown Manhattan office when the phone rang around noontime. It was her neighbor, who had called to say her younger brother had been injured…
I was just getting back to normal. Not from the overwhelming sentimentality of watching the original “American Idol” judges–Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson, and Simon Cowell–take their star turn on last week’s series ending finale.
No, that wasn’t the striking finale moment for me.
I was still recoveri...
On Tuesday, April 19, AALDEF will be monitoring the New York Presidential Primary Elections at several polling places in Manhattan’s Chinatown and Lower East Side. Special elections will also be held on April 19 to fill a vacancy in NY’s 65th Assembly District, a seat formerly held by Sheldon Silver...
I went back to Harvard last October, and there were Asians and Asian Americans everywhere.
I even saw a Vietnamese sandwich truck at the foot of the Science Center, just outside the gates of Harvard Yard.
Of course, it was outside.
You might be able to “pahk yah cah in Hah-vahd Yahd.”
But not yo...
New York Times - When it comes to slurs and their trademarking, I believe the First Amendment rules the process. That means more speech, but also more protests, a deeper consideration of people’s intent as well as government limitations on hate…
Hooray for the unions.
For more than a generation since Ronald Reagan’s takeout of air traffic controllers, unions have been taking it on the chin, in the shorts, and every other soft tissue place that can possibly hurt.
And now as tech Uberizes everything in America, unions have little cred with ...
2016 Justice in Action Award recipients and presenters. L to R: Jeff Yang, Wall Street Journal columnist; Phil Yu, creator of the Angry Asian Man blog; Louise Parent, of counsel, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Heidi C. Chen, Executive VP and general counsel of Zoetis; Neal Katyal of Hogan Love...
New York Daily News - Q. I’ll have five years of permanent residence this coming August. I want to vote in November. When can I file my naturalization application?–Trudy Whyte, New York City. A. You can file your naturalization…
I confess to something very un-American.
Or since it’s me, would that be un-Asian American? Un-Filipino American?
This week on the day after the attacks on Brussels, for the first time ever, I really did feel a bit of fear.
It wasn’t the full blown Donald Trump/Ted Cruz fear of all things Islam–i...
MediaMatters - Media, experts, and civil rights groups are all criticizing Ted Cruz’s call to “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods” in the wake of terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium, seemingly inspired by ISIS. The plan has been called “counterproductive…
Even as an American Filipino, an Asian American, it’s hard not to be engaged by the historical news happening in Cuba.
People are getting choked up over seeing the first American president in Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928.
(White House photo)
Even me.
And you’ll hear that fact over and ov...
Weekly Standard - Asian-Americans have recently surpassed Hispanics as the fastest growing ethnic voting bloc in the United States, with their voting numbers expected to double by 2040. Admiring thrift, hating waste, valuing education…
Is Donald Trump a racist?
That was a great first-round made-for-TV question from reporter Karen Tumulty at Wednesday’s Democratic debate in Miami, put on by Univision, the Washington Post and carried by CNN.
I kept wondering if anyone would have had the guts to ask any Southern Dixiecrat such a ...
Stateline - In 37 states, a country other than Mexico is now the most common country of origin for newly arrived immigrants, according to a Stateline analysis of census data. The numbers reflect a steep decline in Mexican immigration since 2005…
Civil Rights, Labor, and Immigration Groups File Amicus Brief Asking Supreme Court to Lift Injunction on Expanded DACA and DAPA in United States v. Texas
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court today, AALDEF joined 325 groups urging the Court to lift the injunction against ...
NBC News - Angela Guanzon remembers learning about human trafficking growing up in the Philippines, but she never imagined that one day she would be a trafficking survivor. “All I heard about was human or sex trafficking–not labor trafficking…”
Hong Kong Economic Journal - It wasn’t anything we haven’t heard before. But in a year in which #OscarsSoWhite dominated headlines, awards host Chris Rock’s tone-deaf joke at the expense of Asian kids was a cheap shot.
The killing of Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old unarmed African American man, was a tragedy that underscores the need for systemic changes in the NYPD and the NYC Housing Authority.
On Nov. 20, 2014, NYPD officer Peter Liang, a Chinese American rookie police officer, and his partner entered a dark stairw...
