“This community has been around here for 150 years. We are not stupid. We know that this is a land grab,” a coalition leader said.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) – A Philadelphia community is banding together, and strengthening its allies, in a fight to stop the 76ers’ proposed arena.
They announced the “Chi...
Chinatown community members are announcing a formalized coalition against the 76ers arena at a press conference Monday morning. At that time AALDEF will be pledging legal support to their fight.
by Massarah Mikati/Philadelphia Inquirer
Almost 50 Chinatown associations and organizations will come t...
What’s happening in Congress to Kevin McCarthy hasn’t happened since 1923,100 years ago. But it’s nothing like what’s happened to Asian Americans in that Congress.
Still, that’s not the history people will focus on today.
Instead, they’ll be talking about the history of January 6 and how in 2021, ...
As 2022 ended, a Pope emeritus (Benedict) and a woman broadcaster who kicked open the “white men only” doors for all (Barbara Walters) have died. Asian Americans were touched by both, and I was going to comment on their passing. I was also going to update you on what the new Purdue president, the Ho...
The racist slur of Chancellor Thomas Keon, the CEO of Purdue University Northwest, remains a cloud over Asian America, but it seems like many people want to pretend it doesn’t matter.
But it really does.
And the one person who can make it right, ironically, is Mung Chiang, an Asian American immigr...
By Dongdong Yang/Sampan
Officials, voters, and community groups celebrated passage of Malden transliteration law on December 15, 2022. It marked a significant step towards ensuring full access to the ballot box for Chinese-speaking voters with low English proficiency. According to a 2021 American C...
Thomas Keon, Chancellor of Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Indiana doesn’t speak Chinese, or any Asian language. He only speaks it for laughs. But he does not tell good jokes. Not for being the head of Purdue University’s regional campus south of Chicago. Despite his apology for not being fu...
Asian Americans should keep celebrating the passage and signing of the Respect for Marriage Act beyond the weekend.
You had a more important role than you realize in that historical Supreme Court case in 1967 that legalized racial intermarriages.
I know because I talked to the guy who argued the c...
Life is full of hard things and easy things. Let’s take the hard things first.
If you’re a science-type Asian you’ll appreciate why Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm used one of Pres. Joe Biden’s pet phrases to describe what was accomplished by American science today.
The phrase is “BFD.” And the...
The results reflect that Asian American voters, who make up 4.7% of the state’s overall electorate, grew in support for the incumbent since the midterms last month.
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
An Election Day poll released by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund on Wednesday showed that 7...
The big takeaway from Georgia? People are noticing us. Asian American Pacific Islanders.
In Georgia, we’re there. At an estimated 133,000 voters, we’re relatively small in number, but we can help coalitions win big politically.
I noticed that when I visited my daughter in Albany, not CA, but GA, a...
New York, NY — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released results of its nonpartisan, multilingual exit poll of 337 Asian American voters in the December 6, 2022, Senate runoff elections in Georgia.
Asian American voters polled in Georgia overwhelmingly supported i...
The Senate Runoff in Georgia has a new mantra. On Tuesday, you just GOTA vote.
GOTA?
Get Out the Asian Vote, at least in Georgia.
If you know someone in that state, remind them that early voting ends on Friday. As I write, more than 1.1 million Georgians have already voted. Once early voting ends...
Excuse me. I had to wait a few days. Nov. 27 is both political and personal for me as an American Filipino.
It is the day I celebrate the birth of my cousin, Stephen, a next generation Filipino immigrant in my family, who in 1984 was 27 and about to finally graduate from college.
But then he was...
The runup to Thanksgiving is predictable. Like clockwork, President Biden has pardoned Chocolate and Chip, two North Carolina turkeys. But think about the other 45 million unpardoned birds and just go vegan. It’s not impossible to go beyond the cruelty of the Thanksgiving meal. You’ll still be full,...
Some warn that, with changing demographics and drastic generational differences, the parties will have to adapt to earn Asian American’s long-term loyalty.
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
In the highly competitive swing state of Nevada, both parties aggressively courted Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders...
A week ago, there was no Red Wave. Was there a Blue one?
If you look at other exit polls, not as much as there could have been.
BIPOC voters were seen and heard on election night. And their unity was the key.
But from the numbers, it appears the coalition is beginning to fray a bit.
Overall, whi...
By Amy Yee/Bloomberg
Under federal law, Philadelphia offered Chinese-language help in midterm elections as community organizations worked to boost turnout of AAPI voters.
In the waning hours of US midterm elections last week, a Chinese American couple in their 70s in Philadelphia’s Chinatown voted...
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
Two separate exit polls showed that Asian Americans leaned left, but Democrats shouldn’t take the demographic for granted, experts say.
May Yeung, 35, a New York City-based publicist, said she was impressed by the crowd at her polling place in Chinatown but not entirely surpr...
I knew it wasn’t going to be a “red wave.”
I was watching Republican Allan Fung, dubbed by Fox as one who could flip Rhode Island’s decidedly blue Congressional District 2. When he lost, I knew some election day prognosticators would be confounded.
America did not exit from democracy on Tuesday. V...
