Education Week - As the New York City district forges ahead to add or expand dual-language programs at 40 schools this coming fall, education leaders here continue to grapple with issues that have hobbled their ability to provide required services…
Education Week - As the New York City district forges ahead to add or expand dual-language programs at 40 schools this coming fall, education leaders here continue to grapple with issues that have hobbled their ability to provide required services…
Just when you think we’re safe in 2015, and Asian Americans have a real foothold in American society–living stereotype-free without fear of discrimination–along comes a story like this one involving the Hwang family.
It’s like a brick of firm tofu to the side of the head.
How about being referred ...
China’s recent military change? Bruce Jenner’s sex change got more attention.
But maybe it’s time we all took note.
About China.
Forget the old joke about the Chinese Navy being a bunch of junk.
It’s big and ready to strike in the South China Sea.
According to a new white paper–the first publ...
Maybe retirement in May was really David Letterman’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month tribute.
On Monday, the kick-off to the last week of the “Late Show,” Sue Hum, Letterman costume designer, got her send-off in the “Top Ten Things I’ll miss working at the Late Show.”
Her epitaph now should ...
Today, the date that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) was scheduled to begin accepting applications under the new deferred action initiative for parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (known as DAPA), pro-immigrant activists are holding actions around the country in...
The Lo-Down - An advocacy organization, Coalition to Protect Chinatown & the Lower East Side, staged a protest yesterday in front of 83-85 Bowery, in an effort to force the landlord to take better care of the buildings. In 2013, 83-85 Bowery and nine other…
NBC News - A coalition of more than 60 Asian-American groups filed a complaint today against Harvard University, asking for an investigation into what it alleges are “discriminatory practices” in the Ivy League school’s admission process…
What’s better: four As or five?
The four As are those who make up what I call the “Affirmative Action Asian Americans.”
The five As would be those I dub the “Anti-Affirmative Action Asian Americans.”
If you haven’t noticed either group, don’t worry, you will. They’re forming our community’s Mason...
How silly to ask during Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
But really, do Asian American lives matter? Not just the super-achieving model minority cubs breastfed from Tiger Moms, but the struggling Asian American immigrants who are seldom heard, hardly seen or even recognized?
I won...
Newark Start-Ledger - The New York Times has exposed horrific abuse of workers in nail salons, most of whom are immigrants, and there’s no reason to think this stops at the Hudson. New Jersey salons face the same economic conditions and draw from the same labor pool…
Founded in 2012, Revolutionizing Asian American Immigrant Stories on the East Coast (RAISE) is a pan-Asian undocumented youth-led group dedicated to creating safe spaces for undocumented immigrants and communities to fight for social justice through activism and organizing. RAISE is looking to hire ...
I remember seeing Bruce Jenner throwing a javelin at the Olympics in 1976.
It was the same time Renee Richards was challenging the tennis world to allow a trans woman to compete as a pro.
Richards’ fight went all the way to the New York Supreme Court, a victory for what was then called transsexual...
The Lo-Down - Community activists from several groups staged a protest today across the street from Extell Development’s massive project on the site of the former Cherry Street Pathmark store. They urged Mayor de Blasio to stop construction of the luxury tower…
The Lo-Down - Local community activists are stepping up their campaign against Extell Development’s massive new residential project at the former Pathmark site on Cherry Street. The luxury project, now under construction…
Serap Jangbu Sherpa, 46, was hanging on every bit of communication from the base camp in the Himalayas -by text, online, Facebook–when I called him on Saturday.
It was like he was hanging on the side of the mountain he loved.
Serap is a premier climber who has scaled Mt. Everest three times. But...
We’re coming up quickly to Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, and once again, I’m wondering where we are with our umbrella term that expands and becomes inclusive. Or has the term become meaningless?
We know it’s a political term, but shouldn’t we be feeling a little unity in th...
A significant number of Asian immigrants are among an estimated 300,000 additional undocumented individuals who may benefit from an expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Although applications were to be accepted beginning on February 18, 2015, a Texas federal court ...
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed today in the federal appeals court in New Orleans, AALDEF joined more than 150 civil rights, labor, and immigration advocacy groups contending that President Obama’s executive immigration actions would allow millions of immigrants to apply for relief from deporta...
The New York City cop caught on video in a racist rant, wailing on a South Asian driver, has apologized, but to me it just rings hollow.
In an exclusive interview with WNBC-TV, Patrick Cherry tells his side of the story, primarily that we didn’t see the events leading up to the video that more than...
