NBC News - “We started our multilingual exit poll back in 1988 to get a snapshot of Asian-American voting patterns,” said Margaret Fung, Executive Director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. “Mainstream media mostly ignored Asian American…
I won’t go into what I thought the top news stories were this year. Instead, I want to say goodbye to 2013 by thanking you readers for telling me what matters to you the most.
At the top, by a large margin, was my interview with Ronald Ebens, the killer of Vincent Chin. Conducted in 2012, the inter...
Voice of America – New York’s soaring real estate prices have had a dramatic impact on scores of neighborhoods, including the city’s famed Chinatown. The area in lower Manhattan has long been a critical base for Chinese immigrants…
According to the results of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s (AALDEF) exit poll in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York, South Asian American voters voted for Democrat candidates in staggeringly high numbers. In New York, 91% of South Asian American voters favored Democrat Bill de...
December 20, 2013 – According to the results of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s (AALDEF) exit poll in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York, 75% of Korean Americans polled support immigration reform, including a path to citizenship. Moreover, 63% of Korean American voters polled s...
I am not immune. The holidays mean movies, and I thought I’d begin the season by indulging in the massive promotional juggernaut that is Anchorman 2.
I expected it to be silly and stupid. But racist too? That caught me by surprise. And it didn’t make me go har-har-har.
We all know silly and stupid...
On December 17, the 40th day after Super Typhoon Haiyan, the world has moved on.
In the U.S., we debate the race of Santa Claus.
Breaking news is elsewhere.
News of the broken remains in Tacloban and the Central Philippines, where Filipino Catholics are taking note.
Forty is a biblical milestone...
The most revealing thing about Julie Chen on the Letterman show the other night was not her off-the-shoulder black dress, or the high-heeled shoes that give her an awkward waddle, or even the phony “fly-by” wave to the audience that made her more beauty queen than anchor gal.
No, the most reveali...
According to new results of an exit poll released today by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), more than half (52%) of voters polled in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York said they would be likely to vote for a candidate for Congress who supported comprehensive immigration ...
In 1977, I was too late for Vietnam. The war’s end made my draft lottery number obsolete.
It was also too early to talk about the shortcomings of civil rights in America.
But there was one moral eyesore in the world all good people could agree on: It was right–and necessary—to rail out against Sou...
I just came back from Asia, so I have Asia on the mind. What do you know–on Monday night football, there was the NY Giants’ Justin Tuck doing the prayer-bow Thai move after sacking RGIII.
It was the wai, the Thai gesture of appreciation.
I know the move well. I saw Ronald McDonald doing the move i...
I’ve played basketball at the Chinese Rec Center in San Francisco’s Chinatown as a kid, but this was a one-on-one game no one would have expected.
An undocumented Asian student in America, Ju Hong, 24, a DREAM activist from San Francisco State, was one of those with an invite to the special preside...
I just came back from Asia, where I felt like a white guy. And I am not.
I’m an Asian American of Filipino descent, but when I was over there, it was clear I was the foreigner. Most of the people were in Western business dress, so on one level there was a “We Are The World” sameness. But a line was...
ESPN – When Milena Clarke heard about the Miami Dolphins’ bullying controversy, she instantly felt that familiar sick sensation. “It brought back a lot of the pain and reminded me of my situation,” said the 14-year-old high school freshman basketball player…
Called Yolanda in the Philippines, Haiyan internationally, by any name, the super typhoon has heaped on a sense of despair and helplessness.
Though we all knew it was coming from the warnings in both old and new media, there was still such an overwhelming sense that nothing could be done to help th...
November 8, 2013 – According to the results of an exit poll in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York, Asian American voters are open to candidates of both political parties in key states. The nonpartisan multilingual exit poll of 2,290 Asian American voters was conducted by the Asian American Legal Def...
November 5, 2013 — Poll monitoring reports from New York, New Jersey, and Virginia by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today include reports of a mistranslated ballot proposition, Hindi and Korean interpreter shortages, improper voter identification requirements, and one ...
Lorne Michaels is a comedic genius, sure. But from what I know from people who have worked at “Saturday Night Live,” Michaels rules his comic fiefdom with an iron hand.
So what’s he got against a little diversity?
The lack of African American females on SNL is like a blackhead on the face of a ski...
On behalf of student association Asian Desi Pacific Islander American Collective (APAC) and the Asian/Asian American Faculty and Staff Association (AAAFSA) at the University of Texas at Austin, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) filed an amicus brief in support of UT-Austin...
New York, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 39-year old national civil rights organization, will dispatch over 250 attorneys, law students, and community volunteers to three states to document voter problems on Election Day, November 5. AALDEF will also conduct a...
