Racialicious – No one promises junior high school will be easy. But for Pawanpreet Singh, a tall and mild-mannered Sikh-American teenager, junior high was overshadowed with the memories of classmates calling him “Osama” and “terrorist”…
Racialicious – No one promises junior high school will be easy. But for Pawanpreet Singh, a tall and mild-mannered Sikh-American teenager, junior high was overshadowed with the memories of classmates calling him “Osama” and “terrorist”…
Bergen Record – She had barely finished her dream walk, crown on head, scepter in hand, when the vitriolic reaction started flooding Twitter. Nina Davuluri was named the 2014 Miss America Sunday night in Atlantic City…
For those of us who scan mainstream American culture for blips of Asian American life, it was quite a wild weekend when the two biggest stories in our universe–Julie Chen’s secret revelation of double-eyelid surgery and the unprecedented Asian American representation on the once lily-white Miss Amer...
The Language Access Toolkit is a manual created by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), which houses the National Asian American Education Advocates (NAAEA), to guide community-based youth programs in their efforts to obtain equal linguistic access to kindergarten through ...
During today’s mayoral primary, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s (AALDEF) poll monitors found broken voting machines, missing interpreters, a lack of translated materials, and even racist remarks by poll workers.
AALDEF sent attorneys to over 50 polling places in Queens, Brookl...
New York Times – Dented, dinged and dated, New York’s battleship-gray lever voting machines have been hauled out of retirement because the city can’t seem to get the hang of electronic voting…
Colorlines – Back in 2008, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Schools Chancellor Joel Klein announced an ambitious new initiative to try to help curb bullying in the Big Apple’s classrooms. The plan included…
New York Daily News – The “snapshot” study of more than 160 Asian American public school students by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Sikh Coalition was released Thursday…
CBS – Some Asian American students are hoping the new school year brings an end to bullying in the New York City school system. A new report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Sikh Coalition…
Washington Post – A report released Thursday (Sept. 5) by two civil rights groups found a dramatic spike in bullying of Asian-American students in New York City public schools. The report by the Sikh Coalition and the Asian American Legal Defense …
WPIX TV – Sikh Coalition director Amardeep Singh’s did not hold back when expressing his reaction to a report released Thursday detailing a greater than 20% increase of Asian-American students getting bullied inside of city schools…
NY1 News – In light of new statistics from a joint study released on Thursday, anti-bullying advocates say city public schools still needs to make changes when it comes to protecting Asian American students, especially those of the Sikh faith…
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and The Sikh Coalition released their third report in five years today documenting bias-based harassment of Asian American students in New York City public schools. The new report, “One Step Forward, Half a Step Back,” reveals that the c...
Statement of
Jerry Vattamala, Staff Attorney,
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Before the
Presidential Commission on Election Administration
Pennsylvania Convention Center
1101 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
September 4, 2013
Good afternoon, my name is Jerry Vattamala and I a...
New Report Shows Increase in Reported Bullying of Asian Students in NYC
Press Briefing, September 5 at 10am
Groups release new student data on bias-based harassment of Asian American students in NYC public schools and school anti-bullying measures
New York, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense a...
August 30, 2013 — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association (APABA) of Pennsylvania filed an amicus “friend of the court” brief in the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s restrictive vo...
It was practically the impossible dream, to think that President Obama could match the oratorical greatness of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech—even on the 50th anniversary of its delivery at the March on Washington.
I would have been happy with something like a “state of the stat...
As the speeches ended, Asian Americans were at the start of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
I was in front of the march banner and took this photo. I could see Rev. Al Sharpton and Rep. John Lewis. For a brief moment, they held the pose and then it began–a massive non-stop flow o...
If you’re a card-carrying member of the Model Minority, the ones always vying to be first, then why aren’t you at the front of the line for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington?
The historic march in 1963–that galvanized a movement and brought on such landmark measures as the Civil Right...
