Gong Lum v. Rice: the ruling that solidified segregation for non-white students

On this day in 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Gong Lum v. Rice, upholding Mississippi’s authority to enforce ra...

MIT sees rise in Asian American students after SCOTUS affirmative action ruling

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has seen a significant shift in the demographics of its incoming class, with an increase in ...

Supreme Court rejects case alleging discrimination against Asian American students in Virginia

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case alleging discrimination against Asian American students in admissions at the elit...

California sees spike in Chinese migrants entering US-Mexico border

The influx of Chinese immigrants seeking entry into the U.S. through Mexico has reached its highest levels in a decade, contributing to a su...

Japan’s top court axes sterilization surgery requirement for legal gender change

Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a law requiring transgender individuals to undergo sterilization surgery to officially change their gen...

Law group asks Supreme Court to hear new race-based admissions case at elite high school

The group alleges the school’s new admissions plan was designed to “achieve the same results as overt racial discrimination” ...

Coalition of Asian American Student Organizations denounces SCOTUS affirmative action ruling in letter

The Coalition of Asian American Student Organizations (CAASO) released a letter expressing its opposition to the Supreme Court’s decis...

Japan’s Supreme Court rules against government’s restroom restrictions for transgender employee

“All people should have the right to live their lives in a society based on their own sexual identities” ...

Watch: Asian American student defends his stance against affirmative action in interview

“To have a blanket policy where everybody’s race is considered, regardless of individual circumstances, I don’t think that...

Asians who celebrated SCOTUS decision on affirmative action get attacked on social media

“I told my daughter that today is a big day. They’ve ended affirmative action,” tweets Asian Wave Alliance President Yiatin Chu ...

Supreme Court kills affirmative action in college admissions

The Supreme Court today struck down affirmative action programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC), ending a n...

Study: Most Asian Americans agree with affirmative action, but not for college admissions

Only one in five Asian adults believe race and ethnicity should be a factor in college admissions decisions, according to a new study from t...

Asian American student with 1590 SAT score blames affirmative action for rejections from 6 colleges

An Asian American student from Florida with a 1590 SAT score who was rejected from six elite universities has joined the Supreme Court case ...

Elite high school’s admission policy did not discriminate against Asian Americans, Virginia court rules

A Virginia federal court has ruled that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology’s (TJHSST) admission policy aimed at student...

More Philadelphia universities voice support for affirmative action

A growing number of Pennsylvania-based institutions are voicing their support for affirmative action in colleges and universities.  Muhlenbe...

Meet the Japanese American jailed for refusing to go to WWII incarceration camp

As the U.S. government rolled out an order to place all Japanese Americans and immigrants of Japanese descent to incarceration camps during ...

Selective colleges lose diversity with affirmative action ban, study finds

A ban on race-conscious admissions practices in selective colleges would threaten the racial and ethnic diversity of their student bodies, a...

Social justice art project in Sacramento raises awareness about history of AAPI discrimination

A local artist organized a silent social justice walk in Sacramento, California, on Saturday to raise awareness about anti-Asian hate and th...

SCOTUS to decide whether comedian Jeff Ross’ roast of a convicted murderer can be used to sentence him to death

The Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) will rule on whether comedian Jeff Ross’ roast of a convicted murderer can be used to sentence him to...

UNC-Chapel Hill removes racial criterion for fellowship program limited to BIPOC amid civil rights complaint

After a civil rights complaint, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) removed a fellowship program criterion th...

First Asian American and Black woman judge appointed to Nevada Supreme Court

Gov. Steve Sisolak (D-NV) appointed Las Vegas attorney Patricia Lee on Monday to fill the empty seat vacated by Justice Abbi Silver in Depa...

New poll shows majority of Americans oppose affirmative action

A majority of U.S. adults (54%) oppose the consideration of race in higher education admissions, according to a new poll conducted by The E...

‘The View’ co-host blasts affirmative action as ‘downright racist’ against Asian Americans

In light of the landmark affirmative action cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, the hosts of talk show “The View” argued o...

Hundreds rally in support of affirmative action outside US Supreme Court

As the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in lawsuits challenging affirmative action in the student admissions policies of Harvard Universi...

US Supreme Court poised to ban affirmative action in college admissions

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments concerning admissions programs that take race into consideration at Harvard University an...

Supreme Court rules Korean ‘comfort women’ in WWII US camptown sex trade entitled to reparations

South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that Korean “comfort women” who worked in brothels for U.S. troops in the 1940s are entitled to repar...

Democratic Rep. Judy Chu among 181 arrested during peaceful abortion rights protest at Capitol

Rep. Judy Chu (D, CA-27) was arrested and issued a citation during a peaceful abortion rights demonstration at an intersection between the ...

Olivia Rodrigo has choice words for SCOTUS overturning of Roe v. Wade at Glastonbury performance

Olivia Rodrigo paused during her Glastonbury Festival performance on Saturday to address the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supre...

SCOTUS overturns Roe v. Wade: AAPI Democratic lawmakers speak out on ruling; Republicans silent

Asian American Democratic lawmakers condemned the Supreme Court’s official overturning of Roe v. Wade on Friday, noting that now is the tim...

SCOTUS ruling that gives right to carry gun in public condemned by Asian American lawmakers

Democratic Asian lawmakers responded to the Supreme Court’s historic ruling on Thursday that the Constitution grants U.S. citizens the righ...

Sen. Ted Cruz, over 80 GOP legislators call on SCOTUS to end discrimination toward Asian American college applicants

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) published a press release on Monday, detailing a brief that he and 84 legislators filed to the Supreme Court, calling ...

Savita Halappanavar’s story takes the spotlight amid intensified debate on Roe v Wade overturning

On Monday, Politico published a leaked draft opinion suggesting that the Supreme Court could overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decisio...

‘How dare they’: VP Harris gives fiery speech on Republican push to overturn abortion rights

At a gala hosted by Emily’s List, a pro-choice political action committee, on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke out against the S...

‘We are at that point’: George Takei warns US ‘beginning to spiral’ after SCOTUS abortion opinion leak

In a Twitter thread yesterday that has since gone viral, actor George Takei, 85, warned that the U.S. has reached a point where things are ...

Supreme Court declines to block top high school’s admissions policy despite claims it is ‘anti-Asian’

The Supreme Court declined to block a new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) that seeks ...

Harvard president defends university after Supreme Court accepts admissions case: ‘race matters’

Harvard University President Larry S. Bacow called the Supreme Court’s decision to review a case challenging the school’s use of race in th...