URl media

Op-Ed: When America stops playing by its own rules

By Zhengyu “Z” Huang Growing up in Los Angeles, I spent countless afternoons on a battered basketball court outside my local library. The hoop was rusted, the net long gone, […] The post Op-Ed: When America stops playing by its own rules appeared first on AsAmNews.



Trump boosts racist rant about Chinese and Indian immigrants

President Trump reposted a racist attack on Chinese and Indian immigrants on his social media platform today. The transcript from a recent episode of the Michael Savage Show called both […] The post Trump boosts racist rant about Chinese and Indian immigrants appeared first on AsAmNews.

Rep. Ami Bera Condemns President Trump’s Attack On Indian Immigrants

Today, U.S. Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06), the longest-serving Indian American Member of Congress, released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post attacking Indian immigrants and labeling India as a “hellhole”. Donald Trump reposted a video clip on Truth Social from radio host Michael Savage, prompting widespread backlash about a…

Virginia’s redistricting vote was about representation, power, and history

ARLINGTON, Virginia — After weeks of wall-to-wall campaigning, Virginians made their voices heard, approving a new U.S. House map that could help Democrats to pick up four additional seats and bolster Black political power in Congress. But less than 24 hours later, a judge barred the certification of the results. Wednesday’s ruling halts state officials from…

A sudden resignation leaves Florida’s Blackest congressional district in limbo

Constituents of Florida’s heavily Black 20th Congressional District must now navigate a volatile political moment, as U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Democrat who represented the district since 2022, resigned on Tuesday. The surprise announcement came just ahead of a hearing when the House Ethics Committee was scheduled to formally recommend disciplinary action over an investigation…

A Defining Moment For Immigrants: The Fight Over Birthright Citizenship

Who Gets to Be American? The battle over birthright citizenship has reemerged not simply as a constitutional question, but as a profound reckoning with America’s identity—one that resonates deeply across immigrant communities, including millions of South Asians who have built their lives in the United States. At its core lies a question both legal and…

What America loses if birthright citizenship ends

By Aneela Mirchandani As the Supreme Court mulls over the question of whether to end birthright citizenship, a recent panel sketched a dire picture of what an America without such a birthright would look like. It would be poorer: losing out on a projected $7.7 trillion added to the U.S. economy over a century.  A…

The censorship of journalists is also violence

“…the work people set out to accomplish is vulnerable to becoming mission impossible under the […] structural prohibitions that situate grassroots groups […] in the shadow of the shadow state.” Ruth Wilson Gilmore, in the shadow of the shadow state  “Decolonization […] cannot be accomplished by a wave of a magic wand, a natural cataclysm,…

Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.