Philadelphia School Superintendent Arlene Ackerman told parents and students at South Philadelphia High that there would be zero tolerance for violence and that the school would have all the resources needed to ensure students’ safety.
“We’re going to do whatever we need to do to make this a safe s...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Federal investigators have informed the Philadelphia School District that they found merit in the claims of Asian students who said they were abused at South Philadelphia High School.
The school exploded in racial violence on Dec. 3, when 30 Asians were attacked during a day...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Federal investigators have informed the Philadelphia School District that they found merit in the claims of Asian students who said they were abused at South Philadelphia High School.
The school exploded in racial violence on Dec. 3, when 30 Asians were attacked during a day...
by Sameer Ahmed
(Ahmed, a Kansas City native, is a staff attorney and Skadden Fellow at AALDEF.)
There is no “ground zero mosque.”
Despite widespread hysteria from politicians and the media, there is no mosque being built at Ground Zero. I should know; I work a few blocks away. What is being buil...
by Joseph De Avila and Shelly Banjo
A coalition of community groups and co-op boards will release a plan Tuesday seeking to curb high-rise development in Chinatown and the Lower East Side.
The groups say that development south of Houston Street has pushed out long-time residents and small business...
by Arun Venugopal
At this weekend’s dueling rallies over the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero, this much was clear: The opposition to the project is larger and much better organized. In addition to having at least double the turnout of supporters, opponents had a stage a...
Equal Justice Works Fellow Aparna Garg’s letter to the editor was published in response to a Time magazine column by Joel Stein, “My Own Private India,” (July 5), https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1999416,00.html
As an attorney for South Asian immigrant workers in New Jersey, I am o...
By Krissah Thompson, Washington Post Staff Writer
Five years ago, a group of Indian Americans who worked as staffers on Capitol Hill started up a club. They called themselves the “Desi Power Hour,” and met to share their experiences and help each other get a leg up in Washington. Small in number an...
Commentary by Khin Mai Aung
The much-publicized Arizona legislation known as SB 1070, a criminal statute allowing local law enforcement to demand proof of immigration status based on “reasonable suspicion,” is disturbing and xenophobic. It is a particularly heavy-handed development in a state where...
On the afternoon of May 3, a bright, orange door emerged in front of the Chinatown Gate, and standing behind it was a man with a white badge slung around his neck. No, it wasn’t a scene out of a sci-fi movie. Rather, it was skit by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) to prom...
New York World – Kirk Semple
Besides covering broader stories like immigration policy and the 2010 census, New York’s ethnic newspapers also run items more particular to their individual readership. In the past month, a Chinese newspaper looked at a debate swirling around the name of a play, a Mexic...
By Jeff Gammage -Inquirer Staff Writer
On March 16, ninth grader Lindi Liu was exiting a bathroom stall at South Philadelphia High when another boy kicked the door inward, bashing him in the head.
As Liu picked himself up off the floor, he could hear the boy laughing.
The incident lasted only sec...
CityRoom Blog – By Fernanda Santos
The Vietnamese version of the 2010 census questionnaire used the words “dieu tra” to describe the population tally — but what the words really conveyed was something like a communist government investigation. On Korean forms, “county” was translated into “nation.”...
Washington — By Mike M. Ahlers. More than 30 privacy and civil liberties groups are asking the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of full body imagers at airports, saying there is evidence that privacy safeguards don’t work and the devices are not effective. In a petition filed Wedne...
By Jeff Gammage
Inquirer Staff Writer
City school district officials formally acknowledged yesterday that 17-year-old Hao Luu was not connected to a street gang - an allegation that was used to ban him from South Philadelphia High.
Evelyn Sample-Oates, the district’s vice president for communicat...
by Isaiah Thompson
By now, you’ve heard the story: On Thursday, Dec. 3, more than 20 Asian students were attacked on their way home from South Philadelphia High School (SPHS) by a mob of as many as 100 of their peers, most of them African-American. The incident — which is still under investigation ...
By Kristen A. Graham and Jeff Gammage
Inquirer Staff Writers
Having seen many of their classmates punched and beaten all day long, a group of Vietnamese students told teachers they feared walking home.
At the end of the school day Dec. 3, they left South Philadelphia High, backed by a group of adu...
Inquirer Staff Report
An Asian civil rights group said today it filed a complaint with the Justice Department charging the Philadelphia School District discriminated against Asian students at South Philadelphia High School.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund alleges the District a...
By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY
The words dieu tra jumped out at Quyen Vuong as she perused the 2010 Vietnamese-language Census form online.
“It’s a very scary connotation in the sense that there is a crime and the government needs to investigate,” says Vuong, a member of two Census outreach committe...
More Assurances Needed That Data Will Be Confidential, Says Legal Group
By the Associated Press
WASHINGTON – The government is fumbling some efforts to assure immigrants that U.S. census data will not be used against them, including gaps in outreach and foreign language guides that refer to the de...
