By Akemi Tamanaha
Asian American advocacy groups want to know what conversations city government officials and developers are having about the proposed 76ers arena (76 Place) behind closed doors.
Executives for the 76ers have proposed building 76 Place near the heart of Philadelphia’s Chinatown. ...
In the federal suit, 3 former employees are asking for over $230,000 in unpaid wages, overtime pay and stolen tips.
By Dan Shalin
MALDEN, MA — Three former employees of an out-of-business Malden Chinese restaurant have filed a federal lawsuit alleging wage theft and retaliation by the establishmen...
By Akemi Tamanaha
Three former employees of Sichuan Taste in Malden, Massachusetts, have filed a lawsuit against the restaurant over wage theft and retaliation.
The workers will be represented by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the Asian Outreach Center (AOC) at Gr...
San Francisco — The San Francisco Filipino American Chamber of Commerce (SFFACC) celebrated its 50th anniversary during Filipino American History Month with a gala event last October 7.
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SFFACC also honored some outstanding Filipino community empowerment advocates.
Among the honorees was Loida...
by Akemi Tamanaha, Associate Editor
Civil rights groups recently held a press conference to condemn a racist attack on a 14-year-old Asian American boy who was canvassing for District 10 legislature candidate Weihua Yan in Nassau County, New York.
According to Yan, the attack occurred in Great Nec...
By Karina Kovac
A 14-year-old Asian-American canvasser and intern for District 10 legislature candidate Weihua Yan was punched, pushed and subjected to derogatory racially charged comments Monday by a Village of Thomaston resident on Colonial Road, Yan said.
Video was taken by an adult accompanyin...
By Akemi Tamanaha, Associate Editor
Jessica, a Chinese data scientist living in the United States on an H1B visa, has spent the past six years building a life in Florida. She had hoped to purchase a larger house for herself, her baby and her parents, who wanted to help raise their grandchild. The r...
By Sian Cobb
A dozen advocacy organizations have sent a letter to President Joe Biden, asking him to publicly condemn a series of Supreme Court decisions known as the Insular Cases that inhibit residents of the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories from accessing certain constituti...
By WCJB Staff
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A battle about a new Florida law that restricts people from China from owning property in the state is headed to a federal appeals court.
Attorneys for four Chinese people and a real-estate brokerage that serves Chinese clients will appeal a ruling last wee...
By Randall/AsAm News
A judge in Tallahassee today released a ruling that refuses to block the implementation of Florida’s law that prohibits many Chinese immigrants from buying a home, reports the Commercial Observer.
The law specifically targets those from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and oth...
By Brahmjot Kaur/NBC News
A Georgia community is rallying around a Vietnamese American City Council member after a colleague said she was “un-American” and “failed as a citizen of this country” for backing a petition for multilingual voting ballots during city-level elections.
Dozens of residents ...
By Julia Tong/AsAm News
On Tuesday, 80 people gathered outside the steps of the Joseph Woodrow Hatchett U.S. Courthouse in Tallahassee, Fla. Wearing yellow shirts and braving the 100-degree heat, they rallied against Senate Bill (SB) 264, a bill that restricts land ownership by Chinese Americans.
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By Alicia Devine/ Tallahassee Democrat
A federal judge listened to more than two hours of arguments Tuesday about whether he should block a new Florida law that restricts people from China from owning property in the state.
Ahead of the court hearing, more than 60 people gathered in front of F...
By Cody Butler/Gray Florida Capitol Bureau
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - Tuesday, a federal judge heard arguments challenging Florida’s new law restricting some people from owning property.
Republicans said this law will help protect the United States from “countries of co...
By Ruby Cramer/The Washington Post
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advanced a dangerous conspiracy theory this week that the coronavirus could have been a bioweapon “deliberately targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people while disproportionately attacking White an...
By Ankush Khardori/New York Magazine
The Supreme Court has made clear, once again, that conservatives control the Court, and that they will continue their movement’s decades-long project to reverse legal precedents that they simply do not like. Last year, it was the overruling of Roe v. Wade. On Th...
By Patrick Tooney/ACLU's National Security Project and Clay Zhu/Chinese American Legal Defense Alliance
Barring people from buying a house because of where they’re from is unconstitutional and unacceptable. And yet that’s exactly what Florida’s new law attempts to do.
On May 8, Florida Governor Ro...
By Ethan Stark-Miller/amNY
Petitioning for this year’s City Council elections, set to start next week, could now be delayed due to a lawsuit filed on Friday by a legal defense group on behalf of Asian American communities in south Queens that seek to alter the new council maps adopted during last y...
By Matt Tracy/Gay City News
Queens-based civil rights attorney and professor Glenn D. Magpantay was sworn into the US Commission on Civil Rights on February 15 at the recommendation of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Queens Congressmember Grace Meng.
Magpantay, who was already an advisor ...
