The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), LatinoJustice PRLDEF, National Institute for Latino Policy (NILP), and the Center for Law and Social Justice (CLSJ) of Medgar Evers College have released a new version of the Unity Map with Congressional districts that reflect New York C...
New York Daily News – A coalition of Asian-American, Latino and African-American groups has released a new set of redistricting maps it believes will give the city’s large ethnic populations a greater voice in future elections.
The so-called Unity Maps are just one proposal being sent to state lawm...
Newsday – There are 1.4 million Asian-Americans who now live in New York. In New York City alone, our community grew 32 percent over the past decade, to over 1 million people. Half a million Asian-Americans live in Queens, where the Asian-American population grew 300 times faster than the rest of th...
Village Voice – This week, the redistricting drama continues. In case you forgot, redistricting is that complicated process every 10 years when states across the country redraw congressional and state legislative boundaries based on Census data.
Well, there’s been a lot of controversy in New York t...
Queens Chronicle – From Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) potentially losing almost all of Glendale to Woodside and East Elmhurst possibly being carved from Assemblyman Michael DenDekker’s (D-Jackson Heights) district, Queens residents could soon be looking at a dramatically different political ...
An 8 point win in Iowa as we approach the Year of the Dragon would only be a good omen for an Asian American.
Just not for Mitt Romney.
Romney, the candidate who could be anchorman, hardly can be called a winner in a contest that’s a statistical tie. (Right, all ye math mavens?) But in a democracy...
Capital Tonight – As the proposed maps for new state and federal offices remain a closely guarded secret in Albany, the Asian American Legal Defense Fund filed a complaint in U.S. District Court to push for an independent process.
The group argues that with the growing Asian population in New York ...
New York Daily News – The Senate Democrats are joining the legal battle to force independent redistricting.
Following up on Erica Pearson’s story in today’s Daily News about the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s lawsuit, Senate Democrats revealed Friday that they too have filed pape...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle – The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), together with pro bono counsel Kaye Scholer LLP, Thursday filed a complaint on behalf of four Asian American voters urging the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn to adopt a redistricting plan that provides Asian Americ...
I’ve always thought it strange that the two bellwether states that really begin the political season are Iowa and New Hampshire.
Bellwether for what? Certainly not diversity.
In Iowa and New Hampshire, it may as well be America in the 1950s, impregnable to immigration and minorities. It is pre-Ame...
New York Daily News – Asian-American voters in Queens and Brooklyn sued the governor and other state officials this week, saying their voting power is unfairly limited by the way the state’s legislative districts are drawn.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a complaint Wedne...
Huffington Post — Last week the Justice Department blocked a South Carolina law that would require voters to produce photo identification at the polls. Now a similar Texas voter ID law could very well be next to face a legal challenge. Under the Voting Rights Act, Texas numbers among a few states,...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), together with pro bono counsel Kaye Scholer LLP, filed a Complaint-In-Intervention in Favors v. Cuomo on behalf of four Asian American voters urging the Brooklyn Federal Court to adopt a redistricting plan that provides Asian Americans in...
Voices of America News — Eight years ago, “Mrs. Kim” came to the United States from China “to pursue her American Dream,” but thanks to unscrupulous business practices familiar to many Asian immigrants working in low-wage industries, things went horribly wrong. Kim, who did not want to use her rea...
Nichi Bei Weekly — Protesters gathered at the “Stand for Freedom March and Rally” in New York City on Dec. 10, the United Nations Human Rights Day.
A coalition of more than 150 civil rights and community organizations led the rally in response to the recent national sweep of proposed voter identi...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), together with pro bono counsel Kaye Scholer LLP, filed an amicus brief in Perry v. Perez on behalf of the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) Greater Houston Chapter urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a Texas district court’s i...
The tragic death of Pvt. Danny Chen is a heartbreaking outcome for his family and the entire Asian American community. His military service in Afghanistan was a true measure of his devotion to this country and its ideals of freedom. The Army failed in its obligation to protect Pvt. Chen and bring h...
Diversity_Plus_ Magazine – Thousands took to the streets of midtown Manhattan on Saturday, December 10th – United Nations Human Rights Day – to Stand for Freedom, part of an aggressive campaign to fight back against attacks on voting rights in states across the nation that would threaten the freedom...
Egyptian citizens Mervat Tolan, 52, and Nabil Talaat, 55 were indicted by a federal grand jury for forcing an Indonesian mother and daughter to work as domestic workers in their former Virginia residence, without breaks and for less than minimum wage, subject to threats of arrest, imprisonment, an...
With the death of Kim Jong-il comes a sliver of hope. Will the family franchise of famine and daredevil nuclear gamesmanship continue? Or, for the sake of its people, is there any chance of real change in North Korea?
In other words, does this emotional period of public mourning offer enough of an ...
