It was getting so bad on the 88th Oscars telecast, I had the sound turned down. But then Chris Rock introduced the Oscar accountants. It was a bad enough sight gag. I only saw the three Asian American kids with the black-rimmed glasses.
Oh yeah, because they’re good at math.
Is that any better tha...
Board’s decision includes DACA students and opens the door for licensure for a range of professions
The New York State Board of Regents voted this week to begin a process to permit qualified non-citizens to obtain professional licenses. Advocates from CUNY Law, its Center on Latino/a Rights and Equ...
On February 26, 2016, a coalition of 82 civil rights, voting rights, labor, religious, environmental, and education groups, including AALDEF, wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, urging the Senate to hold hearings and consider the president’s nominee to fill the vacancy on ...
My dad once told me that when he first arrived in the U.S. in the 1920s, some Americans would say the family name in an odd way to his face.
I always pronounced our name, Guillermo, the Filipino way: “Gill-yer-mo.”
But he told me some insisted on taking the life and beauty out of it.
They said, “...
Next City - It is the kind of cold that burns the skin. But on a Tuesday morning in January, it’s bright and warm in the new branch library in Chicago’s Chinatown. Out the slim vertical windows, subway trains rush by on elevated tracks. Looking north…
NBC News - Six new counties were added to a list of places required by federal law to provide voters with language assistance in Asian languages, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) announced last week…
The Twitterverse was abuzz as soon as the news broke that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had been found dead at a resort in West Texas.
I saw honest expressions of shocked disbelief, some with a mixed sense of sadness and relief that a tenacious conservative opponent had passed on.
Based o...
Los Angeles Times - The night Donald Trump was elected president, JC Chang, 28, shed tears and called his mother, scared for the direction the country was going. When he learned of Trump’s call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen last week…
Oakland Raiders quarterback great Kenny Stabler getting elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame made my Super Bowl Weekend. For me, that overshadowed the corporate juggernaut known as the Super Bowl, with its 100 million-plus viewers worldwide. And considering there are 1.4 billion people in Chin...
GMA News - A free legal clinic on immigration was recently held at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City in response to what the organizers called “climate of fear and uncertainty” caused by the recent election to the presidency of Donald Trump…
If you’re not a fan of the Carolina Panthers or the Denver Broncos, what team do you root for if you even bother to watch Super Bowl 50?
You might go ethnic.
When it comes to football, Asian Americans must go deep into a team’s DNA to find a rooting interest. And my Filipino friends have discovere...
New York, NY…On Tuesday, February 16, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will present its 2016 Justice in Action Awards to Eric H. Holder, Jr., partner at Covington & Burling LLP and former U.S. Attorney General, Heidi C. Chen, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and...
St. Paul Asian American Press - On Tuesday, Feb. 16, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will present its 2016 Justice in Action Awards to Eric H. Holder, Jr., partner at Covington & Burling LLP and former U.S. Attorney…
Donald Trump not on the debate stage on Thursday night? Big deal. Neither was an Asian American.
But Asian Americans in Iowa are hoping to make some noise at the Iowa caucuses.
There are some Asian Americans there, you know.
You can’t tell from the street, but Ingersoll Wine and Spirits is not ju...
I’ve talked about the lack of diversity in movies and TV forever in my pieces on this blog. And though the Oscars are once again all-white and deserving of our ire, Asian Americans of Filipino descent have reason to cheer at least for network television.
You can add Vincent Rodriguez III as a Filip...
NBC News - One thing is clear from exit polls and a survey leading up to Election Day: A majority of Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters nationwide backed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for president…
State of the Union addresses are usually more “I have a list,” than they are “I have a dream.”
But for this last go-round for President Obama, his list was shorter than normal, and the dream part was much larger.
And this comes from a list-worthy president, whose accomplishments were far greater t...
Asia Times - Asian Americans voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump by a huge 79% to 17% margin in Tuesday’s US presidential election, according to a national exit poll conducted by the Asian American Legal Defense…
Reappropriate - Following the devastating defeat of Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton by Republican nominee – and now President-elect – Donald Trump, national media outlets are now racing to figure out where it all went wrong…
I hate guns. But I hate wimpier attempts at gun control more.
And President Obama’s latest attempt is so modest, so restrained, it hardly makes the NRA quake in its boots.
Even the president admitted, it’s hardly a conspiracy to take away anyone’s guns. It’s really just a first step to a relativel...
