I hope my Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) colleague Randy Gener is well enough to watch the Super Bowl.
This year, the Super Bowl will have an Asian American of Filipino descent headlining the halftime show—pop icon Bruno Mars. Mars, who dutifully thanked his Filipina mother when he r...
Sunday will be a regular community-type day in the Silicon Valley district of Congressman Mike Honda (CA-17), even though he finds himself fighting for his political life.
Honda shares the marquee as “special guest “and internment camp survivor at the Korematsu Institute’s celebration of Fred Korem...
I don’t know whether Justin Bieber, driving his rented yellow Lamborghini, saw himself as a thug, but his arrest for alleged DUI and drag racing in Miami certainly makes him “thug-like,” and with a newly minted record, he is definitely more than a “wannabe.”
Notice how race never comes up in disc...
Yesterday, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) denied requests from Arizona, Kansas, and Georgia to change the National Mail Voter Registration Form (the Federal Form) that would require new voter registration applicants to provide additional proof of U.S. citizenship.
“The true intent be...
TakePart - It’s been called the “bamboo ceiling”–the perception that highly qualified Asian American high school students face an unspoken quota at the nation’s elite universities. College admissions directors, the argument goes, often pass over Asian…
The Hill - Hispanics were not the only ethnic group shedding support for the Democrats in this year’s midterm elections. Democratic backing among Asian-Americans declined sharply in the 2014 cycle, according to exit polls, suggesting President Obama’s…
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania (APABA-PA) applaud the ruling by a state judge that has struck down the law requiring Pennsylvania’s voters to show photo identification at the polls. Commonwealth Court Judge ...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) commends the introduction of bipartisan legislation offering common sense fixes to modernize the Voting Rights Act (VRA). This bill will address the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder by ensuring greater protections for al...
Pardon me for being late to the party, but I see and hear too much about modern slavery, hate, and injustice in today’s world—toward all beings and species. So when the movie first came out, I was in no rush to see “12 Years a Slave.”
Slavery? I get it. When slavery ended, more than a few Jim Crow ...
Philadelphia Inquirer – The original Dim Sum Garden was a definitive Chinatown dumpling dive, a no-frills storefront under the 11th Street tunnel where devotees braved bus fumes and panhandlers for xiao long bao,
Asian Fortune – AAPIs are gaining more visibility in the immigrant rights movement, and exit polls from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund show that the majority of AAPIs support comprehensive immigration reform…
Huffington Post - Last month, a San Francisco tour guide was caught in a racist rant about the city’s Chinatown, berating residents for “eating turtles and frogs” and for not assimilating into American culture. There’s an irony to these grievances…
New York Times – Sangeeta Richard, the housekeeper whose accusations of employer mistreatment led to the arrest of India’s deputy consul general in New York and an international furor, is not the first domestic worker…
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Philadelphia Inquirer - Three older men stood together at a Bensalem Township polling station Tuesday, chatting in Gujarati, an Indian language, about the election. They weren’t there to vote; they aren’t yet U.S. citizens. But they went to the polling station…
I confess I’m probably one of the few in this country ever to own a pair of Dennis Rodman Converse basketball shoes. You know, the ones with the funky sun signs on the ankles. In white. High-tops. (They had to be deep-discounted on sale.)
I’m not ready to have them bronzed quite yet.
But maybe I’l...
ChinaDaily USA - Asian American voters in 11 states and Washington largely supported Democratic candidates in the 2014 mid-term elections, according to preliminary results of an exit poll…
NBC News - Asian-American voters continued to support Democratic candidates in 2014, but their support has declined since the 2012 presidential election," said Margaret Fung, Executive Director of Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF).
The Guardian - Since when is a selfie a crime? In New Hampshire, it’s whenever you take that selfie at the polls, as so many thousands of Americans did on Tuesday. And it might cost you a $1,000 fine…
New York Magazine - A cardinal fact of American politics that has emerged during the Obama years is that demographic forces are slowly and inexorably driving the electorate leftward. But the Republican Party has its own corresponding advantages. Its voters turn out for elections…
New America Media - Asian American voters in 11 states and Washington DC largely supported Democratic candidates in the 2014 midterm elections, according to preliminary results of an exit poll released today…
