By Rachel Kim
Three Filipino immigrant nurses were among many health care workers who their attorneys say were subject to harsh working conditions and coercive contractual provisions set by their employers. On behalf of current and former employees, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fu...
By Annie Lo
A recent summer day in Manhattan’s Chinatown naturally led me to Columbus Park, where lush trees shade the benches lining one of the neighborhood’s few parks. I sat and ate my baozi as a pickup soccer game fanned out across the playing field in front of me. But despite the peaceful atmo...
A fall deadline for decision-making has been called crucial.
By Jeff Gammage
In July 2022 the Sixers announced their intention to construct a world-class showplace on East Market Street, a billion-dollar project they said would not only benefit the team but bring new life and economic vitality to ...
By Ronak Patel
A week cannot go by without a headline reporting a new attack on our multiracial democracy. Politicians seeking personal and partisan advantage, aided by shadowy donor networks, have waged a ceaseless two front war against minority voting rights, chipping away at the Voting Rights Ac...
Joe Biden, still isolated with Covid, spoke via speaker phone to his campaign staff early Monday evening to tell them the truth behind his big decision.
“I know it’s hard because you’ve poured your heart and soul into me,” Biden told the campaigners who won him the nomination and then the presidenc...
NEW YORK, NY — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) announced that they, along with co-counsel Murphy Anderson PLLC, have reached a settlement with four health care companies to rescind the “stay or pay” provisions in employment contracts for current and former employe...
You can stop praying for Donald Trump.
Since at least a third of all Asian American voters said they would vote for Trump, according to a recent Asian American national survey, I’m sure there were at least some Asian American Filipino Catholics saying an extra rosary since last Saturday.
Well, you...
I confess my optimism that all the calls for unity after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump could end the polarization that has crippled our nation’s politics for years.
And then I saw the first three days of the Republican National Convention, where Asian Americans were essentially… invisib...
Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa., is the man the FBI has identified as the shooter at the Butler, Pa. Trump rally, in what law enforcement is calling an “assassination attempt.”
Some news organizations will choose not to say the name of the rally shooter, thinking that doing so would ...
Civil and human rights groups, including AALDEF, sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardoza, urging the Department of Justice to investigate the allegations of law enforcement abuses—in response to peaceful protests occurring in cities and on uni...
As Joe Biden in fine fettle would say, “Look folks, we have reached an inflection point…”
But what kind of fettle is Biden in today? Aging for sure, but it’s not a crime to grow old in America.
If we apply the president’s favorite rhetorical metaphor to his current crisis, is the geometric curve ...
AALDEF alongside over 140 organizations, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the Declaration for American Democracy sent a letter to the House Administration Committee and all House members, opposing the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act would require documentary proof of American citizens...
As the nation and Joe Biden ponder whether he is too old for a second term as president, I contemplate the birthday of one of the most influential persons in my life.
Flossie Lewis is 100 this week.
Flossie is older than Joe Biden, but not too old to still be my teacher, my friend, and the Jewish ...
As we approach the 248th birthday of our country on July 4th, consider that at no time in our history-- from the founders to modern times—has anyone ever thought it necessary to do what happened Monday.
The Supreme Court just turned our constitution upside down and made the president a “demi-king.”...
A joint letter was sent on June 28 to Attorney General Merrick Garland by members of Congress and civil rights groups, including AALDEF, requesting information about the Justice Department's efforts to enforce the Voting Rights Act for language minority voters. You can read the letter below:
Dea...
The earliest presidential debate in U.S. history was supposed to shake up the race and reset the campaign for the president with a 38 percent approval rating.
Instead, we are left wondering who has the tougher choice—voters or Joe Biden. Four more years--is he able?
It was not a good debate for th...
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, a young pioneering Asian American politico, must be wondering how a convicted felon with 34 guilty verdicts can be riding high, while an uncharged Thao fights for her political life.
That’s how strange politics is in America today.
On the national stage, President Joe Bid...
Asian Americans, especially Filipinos whose primary family members came to this country as colonized nationals to work the fields in California, identify with the African Americans in Texas in 1865. The Texans lived as slaves for two years longer than they had to, even though everywhere else black m...
On Father’s Day, how many times did you tell your dad that his wish was your command?
I know, it can get old fast. But it’s just for a day. And Dad has earned it.
Too bad it doesn’t work that way with another upcoming holiday, this week’s Juneteenth (June 19th).
Descendants of slaves don’t get to...
In 1989, I was the host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” where, incidentally, I was also the first Asian American male to host a national news show.
During my brief tenure, I’d say maybe the best story I ever told while I had that opportunity was to tell my father’s story in an audio essay.
It is...
