February 23, 2012 – Following months of reports revealing widespread NYPD surveillance of Muslim Americans, and the use of anti-Muslim propaganda in NYPD training, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has submitted Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests to obtain public i...
JD Journal – Jeremy Lin is the first American player of Chinese descent playing in NBA. A Harvard graduate and American citizen by birth, Lin had led Knicks to a respectable position in the last few weeks at NBA with his meteoric rise.
Instead of being proud of the player who is an American citizen...
Houston Chronicle – Though ESPN apologized for an offensive comment made about New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin, an Asian-American civil rights organization isn’t satisfied with the response, The Huffington Post reported.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, an organization that pro...
Non-Profit Quarterly — Last week, NPQ took note as Fox sports commentator Jason Whitlock issued an apology for an offensive racial tweet about NBA phenom Jeremy Lin. Now ESPN finds itself issuing a similar apology.
After the Knicks’ winning streak–spearheaded by Lin–ended Friday night, ESPN’s mobil...
Huffington Post — Jeremy Lin has heard it before.
As an Asian-American basketball player struggling for years to realize his NBA dreams, Lin has dealt with the overt racism of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Jason Whitlock as well as the coded compliments of those who marvel at how “deceptively athletic...
Colorlines – On Saturday ESPN apologized for comments made by two employees who referred to Jeremy Lin as a “chink in armor.” The following day Lin said he doesn’t think the offensive comments made about him on the sports network were intentional.
“I don’t think it was on purpose or whatever, but t...
Reuters — ESPN has fired one employee and suspended another for using the same racist word in connection to New York Knicks’ guard Jeremy Lin.
In both cases, an employee used the word “chink” in reference to Lin, a Palo Alto native of Chinese descent.
“We again apologize, especially to Mr. Lin,” E...
Huffington Post — ESPN has fired the employee responsible for the offensive headline “Chink in the Armor.” The network has suspended the anchor who also used the phrase, the Associated Press reports. —
Though ESPN apologized for referring to Jeremy Lin as “Chink in the Armor” Friday night, an Asi...
We were all having so much fun, too. But that’s no excuse for racism.
I was wondering when someone would use a “Chink in the Armor” reference.
I’m sure many Asian Americans thought about it too. But only the most screwed up Asian American self-hater would use it in public to describe the basketbal...
ESPN’s use of the derogatory headline “Chink in the Armor,” describing Jeremy Lin’s turnovers as costing the Knicks its seven-game winning streak on Friday is racist and inexcusable. Although ESPN issued a statement apologizing for its lapse in editorial judgment, the Asian American Legal Defense an...
Associated Press — A coalition of New Jersey-based Muslim and civil rights groups is asking Gov. Chris Christie to investigate reports of secret surveillance of Muslim communities by the New York Police Department.
Sixteen New Jersey organizations have signed a letter asking the governor to investi...
Maybe they should take down all the “NO MSG” signs in Chinese restaurants around New York.
MSG officially stands for Madison Square Garden, and MSG is saying “YES!” in a big way to our new national Asian American hero, Jeremy Lin.
Playing in the NBA on a hapless Knicks team with all its injured mi...
On Monday, February 13, U.S. District Judge Dora Irizarry requested that a “Special Master” be appointed to draw a New York redistricting plan following the lawsuit Favors v. Cuomo filed by New York voters, including four Asian American voters represented by the Asian American Legal Defense and Edu...
Splitsider — The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi closed out the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Justice in Action Awards last week with a very funny speech (which, he noted, may also be used as an NYPD training video). AALDEF’s work is great and all, but Mandvi makes a compelling case fo...
A prior engagement on the West Coast meant I couldn’t get to the AALDEF dinner in New York City last week. So let me give my own award to AALDEF honoree Fareed Zakaria for an excellent interview Sunday with George Soros on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS show.
It’s not every day you see someone elicit suc...
Kaieteur News and Caribbean Daily — A strong and unified coalition of Guyanese Americans took the Queens Borough Hall by storm last Tuesday, and demanded that the Legislative Task Force for Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR), rectify their proposed Richmond Hill legislative district b...
Gotham Gazette — In a series of hearings across New York City last week, lawmakers, special interest groups, community organizations and private citizens blasted Senate and Assembly redistricting proposals put out by the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR), so...
Colorlines — The U.S. Department of Education announced it will open an investigation into Harvard and Princeton’s admissions practices after receiving a discrimination complaint from a South Asian student who was at the top of his high school class but was denied by those schools, Bloomberg repor...
Queens Chronicle — The group of state legislators that drew the proposed district lines for the Assembly and Senate should be exiled to New Jersey after creating areas resembling Rorschach ink blots that split apart communities and dilute minority voters’ power — or, at the very least, be sent back ...
Brooklyn Independent Television — It happens every 10 years, the process of redrawing electoral districts. The maps are in and critics contend the redraw dilutes the voting power of many communities of color. We’re reading between the lines with Esmeralada Simmons of the Center for Law and Social Ju...
