If you had a choice, who would you rather be–longtime criminal Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow or San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee? Not just for one devilish day on Halloween, but in real life.
If you need help, here’s Ed Lee in Giants drag last year in San Francisco’s World Series parade.
This year, the Ne...
On Sunday, California celebrates the first statewide Larry Itliong Day, honoring the Filipino American farm worker labor leader on his 102nd birthday.
And what a way to start the final week of October, as Filipino American History Month winds down to a close. Add the coincidence that the Mets are i...
On Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 at 3:30 pm, members and supporters of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side will march against racism and displacement from 227 Cherry Street in Lower Manhattan to City Hall. It follows a successful rally and march on Sept. 25 that drew over 1,000 par...
KQED News - This November, Filipino-language voters will be able to use a bilingual English and Filipino ballot for the first time in San Francisco history. But only 5 percent of the city’s 24,100 Filipino-speaking residents are registered to vote…
Nick Kristof’s column reframing Asian Americans as the “model minority” caused quite a stir last week. And the New York Times op-ed star’s response published on Facebook probably won’t win over his many critics.
I wasn’t sold. (See my original column in response to his here).
Let me just say, hi...
When the presidential candidates square off and debate in this campaign, I hope they don’t think Asian Americans are such “success stories” they can simply write us off when it comes to public policy.
And I hope someone doesn’t point to us and say, Asian Americans are the “good example” or, heaven ...
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, together with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and five other civil rights groups, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court in Evenwel v. Abbott, a challenge to the “one person, one vote” principle that legislative di...
With the help of the Pew Research Center’s new data analysis, I have seen the future and indeed, it is all about us.
When I’m 100 or so, I fully expect my Filipino nurse/caretaker to cheer me up with the salutation: “We’re No. 1, Mr. G!”
Finally.
That would be the year 2055, when Pew says Asian A...
As I child, I remember hearing the news about the presidential campaign of 1960.
People made a big deal of the fact that John F. Kennedy–the Democrat running against Richard Nixon–was Catholic.
Like there was something wrong with that?
Apparently back then, yes. It didn’t even occur to me that bi...
There’s a reason why you won’t see an Asian American on the main tier of CNN’s GOP debate. Or any presidential debate in the near or distant future.
Republican or Democratic, it doesn’t matter. Most people who see an Asian American simply don’t see “president.”
Even with Donald Trump lowering the ...
Journalist Emil Guillermo, who has written for the AALDEF blog since October 2010, received the prestigious 2015 Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) at its annual convention in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2015. The award, nam...
If you’re an American Filipino, an Asian American foodie, or anyone who relishes fresh, local food—before you take another bite, take the time to remember who picked it. Then look up to the skies and thank the Filipinos in the fields of California who brought about fairness, civil rights, and social...
The Coalition to Protect Chinatown and Lower East Side will march to City Hall in New York City on Friday, September 25, 2015 at 4 pm, in response to the NYC Department of City Planning’s (DCP) refusal to take action on the Chinatown Working Group rezoning plan. In an August 5 meeting with Coaliti...
NBC News - In posting a link to an article about Chinese President Xi Jinping, The Wall Street Journal tweeted, “A chink in his armor? Xi Jinping looks vulnerable for the first time,” late Sunday night. Within two hours, the tweet was deleted…
I read the Wall Street Journal‘s tweet on Sunday night about China’s president, seen by Asians and Asian Americans around the world.
Is there any question the Wall Street Journal must apologize?
And yet by Monday, nothing.
Just this non-apology.
We recently removed a tweet on our Xi Jinping ar...
NY Daily News - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump lampooned Asians during a campaign rally in Iowa, mocking them with broken English.
“Negotiating with Japan, negotiating with China,” Trump said during a Tuesday speech in Dubuque before folding his hands over his middle. . .“They sa...
While in college, I was a TV news intern at WNAC, now WHDH in Boston. Later, I was a full-fledged TV professional and worked as a 20-something reporter at KOLO in Reno, KXAS in Dallas, and KRON and KPIX in San Francisco.
I knew the life Alison Parker and Adam Ward were embarking on.
I know what it...
Cleveland.com - Trump did his stand-up routine the same day he took to Twitter to trash rival Jeb Bush for making a reference to Asians while discussing “anchor babies.” The term, used to describe the U.S.-born citizen children of undocumented immigrants…
FoxNews.com - The Hillary Clinton campaign has hired a former Planned Parenthood organizer to rally support from Asian Americans. The Clinton campaign announced on Tuesday that it hired Lisa Changadveja…
A citywide coalition of non-profit community-based, advocacy, and social service organizations announced a non-partisan candidate debate for the Special Election in New York’s 23rd City Council District. The event is scheduled for Thursday, August 27th at 6:30 PM at the Hillside Banquet Hall (206-10...
