Too bad law enforcement agents never seem to profile the likes of Whitey Bulger and James Lee DiMaggio.
For some reason, the white bad guy stereotypes just don’t stick like the black, Latino hoodie hood.
But this week, we got lots of bolts of reality. Bulger finally was convicted after 16 years on...
The Southern Poverty Law Center announced that five more lawsuits have been filed this week against Signal International LLC, accusing the shipbuilder and its network of recruiters and labor brokers of trafficking 500 Indian guest workers to the United States and forcing them to work under barbaric ...
Times Picayune – When the Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association filed a civil rights complaint with the federal departments of education and justice on Friday…
If you haven’t noticed, in one week the anti-Asian/Asian American meter was off the charts and maxing out in the red.
But it’s likely that you, like everyone else, probably didn’t even notice.
Asian American cultural slights? Are you kidding? Who takes those seriously as civil rights violations?
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The Advocate – Two advocacy groups filed a civil rights complaint Friday with the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of 11 Vietnamese and Latino parents whose children are enrolled in several New Orleans schools…
The Times Picayune – Two groups are set to file a federal complaint that several eastern New Orleans schools are violating civil rights law by failing adequately to serve non-native English-speaking families. VAYLA and the national AALDEF…
Groups to File DOJ Complaint on Failing Language Services in New Orleans Schools
Press Conference August 2 at 10am
Asian American and Latino families to hold New Orleans school district accountable for ineffective ESL services and language access systems
New Orleans — The Vietnamese American Youn...
If you’re a CNBC watcher, chances are you barely have the attention span for a stock ticker. So here’s an executive summary: The phrase “Chink in the Armor” shouldn’t be used–unless you’re complaining about how Guinevere screwed up your dry cleaning.
Remember the big race conversation that Presiden...
July 30, 2013 — President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and other senior administration officials met yesterday at the White House with several civil rights leaders, including Margaret Fung, executive director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), to discus...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has joined an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold aggregate contribution limits in the lawsuit McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Under existing campaign finance laws, there is a $2,600 limit on donations ...
Three mid-level managers at KTVU-Oakland, CA were fired over the broadcasting of fake Asian names in the coverage of the Asiana Airlines crash Wednesday, according to reports on SFGate.com.
It was first reported on Rich Lieberman’s 415 Media website.
Years ago, I knew professionally one of those f...
WASHINGTON–Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice) and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) jointly submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Wednesday hearing titled, “From Selma to Shelby County: Working Together to Restore the Protections of the V...
If the George Zimmerman verdict doesn’t feel like justice, it’s because his legal team in the Trayvon Martin killing focused on a self-defense strategy.
Nothing wrong with that; it proved to be a good one for Zimmerman. Especially when the prosecution went along with the idea, essentially cancellin...
Following the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has joined the ACLU of New Jersey and several civil rights groups in filing an amicus brief in support of marriage equality in Garden St...
Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, the two 16-year-old Chinese school girls who died in the Asiana Airlines crash this weekend, aren’t around to experience the kind of knee-jerky modern racism toward Asians the tragedy inspired in both mainstream and social media.
They’ve been spared.
But 14-year-old Mi...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights urging both federal agencies to investigate the racial harassment suffered by 14-year-old Milena Clarke, an Asian American...
Board Fails to Provide Translated Ballot Required under Federal Law
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) sued the NYC Board of Elections (“the Board”) for failing to comply with the language assistance provisions (Section 203) of the federal Voting Rights Act.
On Oct...
Sandra Hernandez and Mailee Wang finally got their June wedding–to each other.
San Francisco got the jump on history, opening its City Hall for business over the weekend with the Supreme Court ruling on Prop 8 having cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California.
On Saturday, nearly 250 marr...
It was like an early Independence Day celebration.
Pride parades took place in New York, Houston, and San Francisco over the weekend. As a straight male, I witnessed the scene in all three cities in the past. (I remember going to the Farm House in Houston in 1975!) As a journalist in San Francisco,...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC (Advancing Justice-AAJC) (formerly known as Asian American Justice Center) criticize the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Section 4, the coverage mechanism of Section 5 of the Vot...
