When the verdict in the Ellen Pao discrimination case came down last Friday, I didn’t have a good feeling.
Individual cases of discrimination are so hard to prove. Pao had some evidence that there was an old boy’s club, but the good folks at Kleiner Perkins had the typical defense.
They maligned h...
NBC News - Nine Korean and two Latino restaurant workers have been awarded $2,672,657 in damages by a US District Court from Kum Gang San, a large and well-known Korean restaurant with multiple locations in New York, for various labor law violations…
Patsy Mink was a 12-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii–the first woman of color and first Asian American woman elected to Congress in 1964. She ran for president in 1972. And for all you March Madness fans, she authored Title IX of the Higher Education Act, officially calle...
A Manhattan federal court has awarded $2,672,657 in damages to nine Korean and two Latino workers against Kum Gang San, a Korean restaurant with branches in Manhattan and Flushing, and its owner, Ji Sung Yoo. The defendants failed to pay minimum wages and overtime pay and stole tips from the workers...
India West - The Asian American Legal Defense Fund honored partner Neal Katyal Feb. 23 with a 2015 Justice in Action Award, which was presented to him at AALDEF’s Annual Lunar New Year Gala in New York City. AALDEF honored Katyal…
At face value, Vincent Wu, 73 years young this week, looks like many successfully retired Asian American engineers. At Atari, the company that brought the world “Pong,” Wu led the effort to bring “Donkey Kong” home–to the home PC, that is.
Remember the floppy disk version? That was Vincent.
But as...
A fundamental story pattern on “Fresh off the Boat” has emerged. Eddie’s hip-hop clash is the New American Asian Fusion that sets off the comedic and leads us over the bridge to racial harmony!It all came into focus this week when Eddie gets automatically paired with a new student, an adopted Chines...
There’s something about a march. It’s not a parade. It’s a march. People together. Maybe arm in arm, maybe not. But definitely believing in the same principles, and moving forward in the same direction.
Does anyone doubt that sense of unity is what our country needs more than ever?
So I don’t kn...
On February 27, 2015, Ivy O. Suriyopas, director of AALDEF’s Anti-Trafficking Initiative testified at a New York City Council oversight hearing on labor trafficking of domestic workers and resources available for victims in New York City. Her testimony appears below and can also be downloaded here.
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By the time you read this, the whole world will have watched the Oscars. And while there’s a great chance of someone on the red carpet “wearing an Asian American,” I am sure of this: There’s absolutely no chance an Asian American will win in any of the major categories. Not Best Picture, Best Direct...
NBC News - Sunday night’s surprise ending to the Miss Universe Pageant saw host Steve Harvey accidentally announce Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez the winner, only to backtrack on air moments later and announce Miss Philippines…
New Orleans — A federal jury today awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to five Indian guest workers who were defrauded and exploited in a labor trafficking scheme engineered by a Gulf Coast marine services company, an immigration lawyer and an Indian labor recruiter who lured hu...
Courthouse News Service - A federal jury on Wednesday awarded $14M million in compensatory and punitive damages to five Indian guest workers who said they were lured to the U.S. on false promises of visas..
At Cornell University, students have had the opportunity to pursue the academic program of Asian American Studies since 1987. On the other hand, while Princeton has certificate programs in African American Studies, Latino Studies…
AALDEF seeks pro bono attorneys to represent eligible people who qualify under the expanded DACA and the new DAPA programs. Attorneys must attend an AALDEF training in order to take a case.
The first training will be held on February 26, 2015 at 6:30 pm, at the office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriv...
The Lunar New Year is coming, bringing the prospect of good luck and great fortune.
We hope.
After last week, we all need something inside that proverbial big red envelope.
Let’s start with justice.
If you’re NYPD Officer Peter Liang, you have to be wondering about your luck when your case just ...
Applications for the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, scheduled to begin on Feb. 18, 2015, was delayed, due to a Feb. 17 ruling by a Texas federal judge temporarily enjoining the President’s exeutive immigration actions, including the expanded DACA and new DAPA program...
Eddie Huang, producer, chef, memoirist, former lawyer, all-around bad dude, and self-proclaimed “human panda,” was born in Washington, D.C. on March 1, 1982.
He was in diapers when I was well into my television news career, the first Filipino American on one of the big three network affiliates in S...
NBC News - In an amicus brief filed this week, the National Council of Asian and Pacific Americans (NCAPA), along with 11 of its member groups, joined more than 200 immigration, civil rights, and social justice organizations in urging the Supreme Court…
New York Magazine - Those at a loss for where to give back this season may want to dive into this roundup of 101 charities by category – women’s rights and health, LGBT, hunger, homelessness, environment, and more…
