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[caption id="attachment_842" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="From Senator Dan Akaka's Facebook photo album"][/caption] The JACL today issued a press release on the Congressional Gold Medal ceremonies held this week for the veterans of the...

Congressmen Michael Honda (D-CA) and Chaka Fattah (D-PA), the leading Congressional advocates for school funding equity, recently hailed the Department of Education’s appointment of Commissioners who will launch and serve on the Equity and Excellence...

The California Asian Pacific Islander (API) Policy Summit is searching for a variety of groundbreaking skills building workshops and trainings that will provide community members the tools to address the broad range of issues impacting API communities. ...

While Asian Americans strongly supported Democratic gubernatorial candidates in New York Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, Asian American voters in Georgia and Texas mirrored the broader electorate by favoring Republican candidates for Governor,...

The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) praised yesterday's ruling that overturned California's ban on same-sex marriage. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that the California voter-approved ban violated due process and the equal protection...

Today, federal district court judge Vaughn Walker ruled that California's Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution in denying gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. Civil rights and advocacy groups, including Asian and Pacific Islander (API)...

As you may know, Judge Edward Chen was nominated to the federal district court in San Francisco by President Obama in August, 2009. His nomination has been now pending for nearly one year -- he is the longest waiting judicial nominee under this...

Please join us on Aug. 5 at Mercury Lounge to support our friend and tireless community activist Jennifer Pae as she comes across the bay to help build her campaign for Oakland City Council District 2. I'm proud to join an event host committee that...