On the weekend of his 100th birthday, it was the next best thing to having Larry Itliong there.
We didn’t have a special Ouija board, just a cassette tape with his voice.
At a symposium in his hometown of Stockton, California, the Filipino American National Historical Society unveiled excerpts of ...
Washington Times – It’s a typical midweek noon rush in the heart of Washington’s Chinatown, and the streets are packed. Locals, tourists and local office workers flock to the restaurants…
Asian Americans, dutifully trying to meet early decision college deadlines last week, may have found themselves–like my daughter—on the Common App website.
After the experience, I’m not sure if any of the apps got to the colleges to which she applied.
But she did get this notice: “Congratulations ...
“You go to the United States where they pick money on trees,” Larry Itliong, the Filipino American labor leader and the equal to Cesar Chavez, says on a special tape recording of a classroom talk at Debra Panganiban Louie’s Asian American class at UC Santa Cruz in 1976.
“Did that happen? Hell, no,”...
China Daily – Like other ethnic neighborhoods in large US cities, Chinatowns are at risk of disappearing due to accelerated gentrification, according to a new report. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) surveyed Chinatowns…
Smithsonian – When was the last time you took a trip to Chinatown? You might want to head there soon, because they might not be around for much longer. According to the Asian American Legal Defense and Education fund, Chinatowns..
New York Daily News – Caucasian populations are growing faster in the Chinatowns of Boston, Philadelphia and Manhattan than in each city overall, according to research by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York…
The Hill (Op-Ed) – Inaction on immigration reform is a dangerous bluff in a high-stakes game, where we bet large sectors of our economy–from agriculture to construction and domestic work, to name a few–on “guest workers” with temporary visas…
Philadelphia, Boston, and New York City Chinatowns Under Threat
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) held a briefing webinar to launch its new report on the dramatic gentrification of Chinatowns in Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia in the past three decades. T...
The Atlantic Cities – A good rule of thumb to assess changing demographics in a Chinatown: the share of Asian versus non-Asian restaurants in the neighborhood. This is according to a new land-use study of the three largest East Coast Chinatowns…
Wired – In many North American cities, Chinatowns have been home to vibrant communities of Asian immigrants since the mid-19th century. But the character of these neighborhoods is changing fast, according to a new report (pdf)….
AFP – Faced with a proliferation of luxury housing and chain stores, America’s Chinatowns risk extinction as new immigrants are priced out of city centers, an advocacy group said Wednesday. A study found that foreign-born…
TIME – Raise is the brainchild of the Revolutionizing Asian American Immigrant Stories on the East Coast group, and tells the stories of young undocumented Asian Americans. Its updates - written by the kids themselves - are equal parts poignant and touching…
Bullies had their way with the public last week in Congress and on a highway in New York City.
I thought that for inspiring real rage, there could be nothing quite like watching video bits of the Sen. Ted Cruz filibuster on C-SPAN. Cruz frivolously compared this publicity stunt to the Bataan Death ...
Associated Press – A federal judge has ordered a central New Jersey town to consider an application to build a mosque without applying restrictive new zoning rules passed two months after the project was proposed…
Proposed Plan for a Mosque, Community Center Can Move Forward
Bridgewater, NJ – The Al Falah Center can now move forward with its application to build a mosque and community center in Bridgewater, NJ, ruled Federal District Judge Michael A. Shipp on Monday. The judge granted Al Falah’s motion for a...
NY, NJ, VA Election Day – November 5, 2013
In past elections, Asian Americans have faced a series of barriers in exercising their right to vote. For example, poll workers were hostile and made racist remarks, poll sites had too few interpreters to assist Asian American voters, translated voting mat...
It’s hard not to think of the final episode of “Breaking Bad” right about now, because its recent shutdown is all very natural.
The federal government’s isn’t.
And in the interest of our democracy, it is worth a spoiler alert.
The hit TV show, which is really about what good moral desperate peopl...
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler saved an awkward Emmy show opener with a few well-timed twerk jokes. But then Fey stumbled onto the stage throwing her cleavage out of alignment, and the show never quite regained its footing.
No matter how badly Neil Patrick Harris (nee TV’s “Doogie Howser, M.D.”) tried to...
September 20, 2013 — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association (APABA) of Pennsylvania filed a response today to the Pennsylvania State Attorney General’s motion to disregard their amicus brief in the PA voter ID case Applewhite v. Pe...
