NEW YORK — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) filed a lawsuit against the New York City Districting Commission, the New York City Board of Elections, and the New York State Board of Elections over the city’s adoption of the city council districting map that denies th...
Presidents Day weekend is our weekend to ski down the hill of oppressive history. There’s a lot of it against Asian Americans.
“Emil Amok: Lost NPR Host…,” the one man show I’m doing at Under St. Marks Theater in New York City now (click here for tickets), wasn’t really intended as a history show. ...
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 ...
I’m officially coming out of hiding. I’m in New York City doing my live one-man show, though considering the venue, maybe I’m still hiding. It’s the small and intimate Under St. Marks theater, Feb. 16-March 4. Click this link for tickets.
It’s actually under a tattoo parlor and not a church as I or...
If my father were alive, he’d be 118 today (Feb. 8). More on dad at the end of this piece. I just know that as a union restaurant worker all his life, he would have loved President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.
If you thought you were invisible, left out, and unseen in America, Joe Biden ...
NEW YORK, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) shared the below statement in response to the brutal killing of Tyre Nichols at the hands of five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee.
“We support the family of Tyre Nichols and the community behind them demanding justice...
After this weekend there will be one civil rights story in America—the video of the beating of Tyre Nichols at the hands of five Memphis police officers, all of whom have been fired and charged this week with felonies, including second-degree murder and kidnapping.
Those who’ve seen the video say N...
I’m no oracle, but in yesterday’s column, I wrote about the urgent need to do something about AAPI gun violence. And that if we didn’t, we would see the likes of Monterey Park shooter Huu Can Tran again, as our community assimilates into the American gun narrative.
I just didn’t figure it would hap...
New York, NY — Today, in response to the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, California, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released the below statement.
“We are incredibly saddened by yet another mass shooting affecting Asian American communities so soon after the Lunar New Y...
By Yoonji Han/Insider
The Asian community in America is grieving after a mass shooting following a Lunar New Year celebration in California this weekend.
Ten people were killed at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday night, according to authorities. The city, which has a majority A...
When I think of Monterey Park, Calif., I think of Monty Manibog, who was elected to the city council in 1976 and became the first Filipino American elected official in Southern California. It was considered a milestone in Asian American Filipino empowerment. Manibog served for 12 years, including a ...
This was not the Lunar New Year news we expected. The rabbit year portends peace and hope, not fear and dread.
And then came the mass shooting that left ten dead in Monterey Park.
“There is a male suspect that fled the scene, and remains outstanding,” said Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert G. Luna...
New York, NY — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund released the below statement in response to the mass shooting in Monterey Park, California over lunar new year celebrations on Saturday.
“We are dismayed at the tragic display of violence in Monterey Park. In a moment when As...
Take a good look at 56-year-old Billie R. Davis from Indiana. The piercing glance. The eyes. Because she’d probably look at you a little differently if you’re Asian American.
Davis has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery, and battery by means of a deadly weapon.
She stabbed an 1...
The first New Jersey state-wide celebration of Korematsu, civil liberties and the Constitution will take place on Jan. 30, 2023.
By Dean Rose Cuison-Villazor and Phil Tajitsu Nash
On Dec. 19, 2022, the New Jersey Senate passed NJ Assembly Joint Resolution 98, a bill to establish January 30 of each...
Robert Hur is the AAPI Person of the Hour. Maybe for the next couple of years. For Fox News Republicans drooling over any potential Biden misstep, Hur will be seen as their go-to guy as they seek to bury the president.
That’s what happens when Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints a special cou...
Given Mung Chiang’s historic new role, some have called on him to address Thomas L. Keon’s actions.
By Kimmy Yam/NBC News
Purdue University’s first Asian American president has taken office, weeks after a chancellor in its greater school system was criticized for what many considered to be a racis...
In this age of ugly politics, we must start this piece with a sense of hope.
It’s good news that Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin–who actually died of cardiac arrest on a football field last week but was revived by defibrillation–is now walking and talking on his road to recovery.
As for...
A survey of neighborhood business owners shows widespread opposition, member organizations say.
By Jordan Levy/Billy Penn
To coordinate and strengthen the swell of grassroots opposition to the Sixers’ proposal to build a new home in Center City, advocates on Monday announced the formal Chinatown C...
“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...
