Asian Americans know why our families are here. It wasn’t just economic opportunity. It was democracy.
Whether you or your family originally came on a boat or a plane, after a stint in a refugee camp, or after a decades-long wait for visa approval, we all have our story of why we came to America. W...
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang/PBS NewsHour
Three days before the inauguration of President Trump, Nada Al-Hanooti’s mother, who was born in a Syrian refugee camp and speaks very little English, was able to take and pass the U.S. citizenship test. Although she was able to naturalize in Arabic, when it cam...
There’s a photograph in the news of a young Asian American woman holding up a sign at the Supreme Court last Monday
The sign said “My race is my story.”
It is all our stories.
It is more important than grades and test scores, really. It’s what we overcame to get where we are.
That’s what an admi...
As It Happens with Nil Köksal, Chris Howden: Rhetorical Questions
Interview with Bethany Li begins at 50:25
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases concerning affirmative action in post-secondary schools, now known more commonly as race-conscious admissions. In one of those cases, conser...
By Ariane de Vogue/CNN
The conservative Supreme Court will meet Monday to consider whether colleges and universities can continue to take race into consideration as a factor in admissions, a case that could diminish the number of Black and Hispanic students in higher education.
Hanging in the bala...
The Capitol Pressroom · Green amendment to be tested in court
TRANSCRIPT:
David Lombardo (DL): In 2021, New Yorkers overwhelmingly approved adding language to the state budget that guaranteed clean air, clean water, and a healthful environment. And while the amendment took effect at the start of 2...
By Carrie Brooker/Legal Current
As Thomson Reuters honors National Pro Bono Week, Legal Current catches up with Helen Respass, senior legal editor, Law Department Service, Practical Law. We discussed her role as co-chair of the Thomson Reuters Global Pro Bono Program, what sparked her passion for p...
Did your favorite team(s) lose this weekend? Don’t go around moping like you’re preparing for a dismal Nov. 8.
There’s still hope. Races are close everywhere. Everything is winnable. Everyone just has to vote.
Early voting has already begun, by mail and in person. Vote early and once. Just vote.
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By Gabriele Holtermann/amNewYork
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) held a press conference on Oct. 21 detailing a lawsuit they filed against the city and developers of the Two Bridges Project on behalf of City Councilmember Christopher Marte (D-Manhattan), the Coalition t...
Residents say they fear more pollution in an area that was hit hard by 9/11 and COVID-19 and are demanding a new environmental assessment that factors in the pandemic.
By Stephon Johnson, with additional reporting by Samantha Maldonado
As construction is slated to begin on three towers in the Two ...
NEW YORK — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) filed a lawsuit on behalf of plaintiffs from the Lower East Side and Chinatown neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan, whose rights to health, welfare, and safety have been infringed upon by the Two Bridges Large Scale Resid...
WHAT: Join us for a PRESS CONFERENCE where the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will discuss a lawsuit we are filing on behalf of Councilmember Christopher Marte and the Lower East Side and Chinatown communities. The lawsuit asserts that residents’ rights to health, welfare, ...
If Donald Trump were watching last night’s “Celebrity Jeopardy,” he would have seen this answer seeking a question: “October is the history month for this Asian-American ethnic group that includes Olivia Rodrigo and Jo Koy.”
First, we must call “sic” on the hyphenated “Asian American,” with apologi...
On this special episode, protecting communities of color as district lines change. A battle for the soul of the Chinese community as they seek political power. CUNY clears up confusion about new districts. The twisted history of the science behind map manipulation. Then, what the average person know...
Last week’s column showed how Filipinos in America provided the basis for the racist Dred Scott decision (1857), where a Black slave was prevented from suing for his freedom. Chief Justice Roger Taney based it on an opinion he wrote in 1840 that since only White Christians could participate in socie...
NEW YORK — Yesterday, the NYC Districting Commission voted 13 to1 to send their revised districting plan to New York City Council. Yet the Unity Map Coalition points out that the revised plan still has many of the same issues as the prior rejected maps, drawing lines that divide the protected commun...
October 2022 marks the coincidence of the new Supreme Court session, the start of Filipino American History Month, and the opening of a new satirical history of race in America by the esteemed African American writer Ishmael Reed.
All of them are connected. Read on.
First, the Supreme Court. No ma...
Hurricane Ian has exposed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the small, mean political animal that he is.
In fact, he could learn something from someone who in the hurricane’s aftermath is doing more to reassure all Floridians and the rest of the country. That someone would be President Joe Biden.
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By Sydney Smith Forquer and Ashling A. Ehrhardt - On Oct. 31, the court will hear two cases challenging affirmative action in university admissions: Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, notably brought by the...
Jin Yut Lew is a 61-year-old in a coma requiring 24-hour care in Chicago.
He couldn’t watch anything on Sunday night. Not even Simu Liu.
Technically, Liu of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” fame (you know, that movie where a despicable character named Emil gets his ass kicked in a cage ...
