Brooklyn Ink — Eighth Avenue was a natural destination for the first Chinese entrepreneurs who came to Sunset Park three decades ago and created Brooklyn’s bustling Chinatown. Eight is a lucky number in Chinese culture.
But stuck with an old zoning code capping the expansion of commercial activit...
As of this week, I’m not buying my screws from Lowe’s anymore, though there must be a surplus of loose screws back at the home office.
The home improvement chain sure has a strange way of celebrating America’s diversity.
“Duck and cover” may have worked in the 1950s for air raids and earthquakes. ...
News India Times – The Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund will honor journalist and TV host Fareed Zakaria with its 2012 Justice in Action Award at its annual Lunar New Year Gala on Feb. 8 at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers here.
According to the AALDEF website, the awards recognize except...
The Nation — Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch finally got their way in 2011. After their decades of funding the American Legislative Exchange Council, the collaboration between multinational corporations and conservative state legislators, the project began finally to yield the intended...
Afro American – Assaults and attacks on voting rights and practices are to be the targets of a massive demonstration Dec. 10 in what organizers are calling the Stand for Freedom march in midtown Manhattan.
The rally is the spearhead of a campaign to wage a counter-assault on the drive to erode voti...
Several thousand protesters are expected to attend the Stand for Freedom March and Rally in New York City on Saturday, December 10, the United Nations Human Rights Day. The Rally will be led by a coalition of over 150 civil rights and community organizations in response to the recent national swee...
The Daily Iowan – The University of Iowa officials support recently released federal guidelines that would allow colleges to take ethnicity into account in admissions.
The guidelines, published earlier this month by the Departments of Justice and Education, would permit universities to implement et...
December 7th will live in infamy for a different reason in the history of the Occupy movement.
In San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee gave the OK for a brutal pre-dawn raid of the OccupySF encampment, with police moving in around 1 a.m., tearing down tents, seizing property, and arresting 80 people.
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New York Daily News – A Texas law requiring voters to show identification at the polls was the subject of a hearing two years ago. This new voter ID requirement would create hardships for Asian Americans, whose birth names are sometimes translated differently on various official documents, according...
New American Media – In Palisades Park, New Jersey, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s New Jersey-Asian American Legal Project (AALDEF NJ-AALP) recovered over $30,000 in unpaid wages for three Korean workers from the Pokoo Sushi & Sashimi Restaurant. One of the workers received un...
In Palisades Park, New Jersey, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s New Jersey-Asian American Legal Project (AALDEF NJ-AALP) recovered over $30,000 in unpaid wages for three Korean workers from the Pokoo Sushi & Sashimi Restaurant. One of the workers received unpaid wages of over $...
The Record – A Palisades Park restaurant has paid three sushi chefs nearly $40,000 in unpaid work wages.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s New Jersey-Asian American Legal Project announced Tuesday that it recovered the pay for three Korean workers from the Pokoo Sushi & Sashimi ...
IndiaWest – The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund will honor Mumbai-born journalist Fareed Zakaria with its 2012 Justice in Action Award at its Annual Lunar New Year Gala Feb. 8, 2012.
The AALDEF Justice in Action Awards recognize exceptional individuals for their outstanding achievem...
On Friday, the United States Department of Education and the Department of Justice issued a new policy guidance on how schools and colleges can take proactive measures to increase diversity and avoid racial isolation in adherence to the Supreme Court decisions Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), Gratz v....
Who would have thought the person to jumpstart an all-but-dead national immigration debate would be none other than the gringo’s gringo, Newt Gingrich?
Gingrich, the ethically challenged politico, proud philanderer, and insistent historian (never a–gasp–lobbyist), is truly someone to whom, say, a H...
Washington Examiner – A former employee at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates and her husband have been indicted on forced labor charges for allegedly mistreating domestic servants at their Vienna home.
The 17-count indictment says Mervat Tolan, 52, and Nabil Talaat, 55, forced two Indonesian ...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has joined civil rights groups in filing an amicus brief on Nov. 22 in the D.C. Circuit opposing the military commissions in Guantanamo Bay because they discriminate against non-citizens.
“For over a century, the United States has honore...
It was the spritz heard round the world. Or rather, make that spritzes, unfortunately. There were way too many of them.
But I think it couldn’t have come at a better time.
I had just been yearning for the halcyon days of campus protest in the ’60s after seeing that pathetic display recently at Pen...
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a new immigration enforcement bill on June, 27, 2011 – Senate Bill (SB) 20 – designed to perpetuate unconstitutional racial profiling by law enforcement. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has joined at least 15 other civil rights or...
Our Time Press – The process of changing boundary lines for electoral districts is a critical one and the Center for Law and Social Justice (CLSJ) has been conducting a series of forums alerting the community to upcoming actions regarding the redistricting process. Moderated by election law and voti...
