U.S. Army PFC Danny Chen.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 21, 2011) — The Organization of Chinese Americans applauds the United States Army’s swift action in conducting a full investigation in the case surrounding the death of Private Danny Chen.

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(December 6, 2011) — Earlier today, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) called on local authorities to initiate a hate crime investigation into the stabbing of a Sikh man at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011.

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BROOKLYN CENTER, MN, September 17, 2011—ISAIAH held a 300-person public meeting focused on the leadership needed to address both the racial equity gap in educational achievement and to create racially equitable schools.  Joining ISAIAH was Minnesota Commissioner of Education Dr. Brenda Cassellius and superintendents or their representatives from 11 Minnesota urban, suburban, and Greater Minnesota school districts.



The yawning gap in educational outcomes in Minnesota between white children and children of color is one of the most alarming challenges of our time. One in three Minnesotans under the age of 18 is a person of color. With only about 40% of African-American and Latino children graduating from high school, our state is headed into a bleak future.

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Community member, Rajinder Singh Khalsa. (SAALT photo by William Hollingsworth)

Jersey City, NJ (August 1, 2011) — Over 70 community members gathered for a July 30 hearing called “South Asians in New Jersey: Ten Years After 9/11″ to reflect on the decade since the 9/11 tragedy, and to provide recommendations for moving forward. The hearing, held in Jersey City, New Jersey, was organized by South Asian Americans Leading Together, a national nonprofit organization, as part of its campaign – An America for All of Us – to mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 23, 2011) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations and the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender today released a report based on available data and interviews with experts that documents growing Islamophobia in the United States and offers recommendations about how to challenge the troubling phenomenon.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – On June 23, 2011, the 29th anniversary of the racially motivated murder of Vincent Chin, Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus spoke out against a growing trend of anti-Chinese rhetoric in political ads that use Chinese language and imagery to portray candidates as sympathetic to China at the expense of American interests.

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NEW YORK (June 7, 2011) – Applied Research Center, the nation’s leading think tank on racial justice, today releases a 40-page study and accompanying video (http://arc.org/millennials/) on the racial attitudes of young people, whom many pollsters and commentators have prematurely labeled as “post-racial.”

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By Neal Katyal

WASHINGTON (May 20, 2011) ­– It has been my privilege to have served as Acting Solicitor General for the past year and to have served as Principal Deputy Solicitor General before that.

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St. Paul, MN – Community Action Against Racism (CAAR), originally founded in 1998 in the wake of racist content broadcast about the Hmong community on KQRS radio, is organizing and hosting a community meeting about a parody song about Hmong people was aired on KDWB last month. The meeting will be on Saturday, April 30, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the office of the St. Paul Federation of Teachers, located at 400 Selby Ave. #A in St. Paul.

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Hmong community and supporters protest outside the St. Louis Park studios on April 15, 2011. Leaders from TakeAction Minnesota and supporting organizations rallied after the cold morning march and then leaders went into the studio where they received a verbal agreement to a meeting that was scheduled later this week. (AAP photos by Tom LaVenture)

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With national rights groups joining the Hmong community’s outrage over racist remarks from a morning radio show, and more corporate advertisers pulling from the radio station KDWB, it has now issued third apology and agreed to meet with leaders about the issue.

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