Headlines

AAPI Headlines

• Asian woman, 94, stabbed multiple times in San Francisco (NBC News)

• Man who stabbed Asian American charged with attempted murder (The Indian Express)

• Asian American woman assaulted in Culver City in possible hate crime (Los Angeles Times)

Politics

• Outrage Over Pandemic Racism May Boost Asian American Voter Turnout in NYC (NBC New York)

• The Editorial Board: Anti-Asian racism in America hurts UB’s budget and radiates through Western New York (Buffalo News)

• ‘Historic’ $200 Million To Combat Anti-Asian Hate Moves Forward As Part Of State Budget (LAist)

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Demands Higher Pay For Hill Staff To Increase Diversity (Huff Post)

Business

• 13 Amazing Asian American-owned Hotels in the U.S. (Travel + Leisure)

• Seven Ways To Support Asian American And Pacific Islanders’ Advancement In The Workplace (Forbes)

• Asian Americans are still viewed as ‘forever foreign.’ That’s keeping them out of the C-suite, this professor says (Market Watch)

Entertainment

• Patton Oswalt’s ‘I Love My Dad’ Wraps Just In Time For Fathers Day; BuzzFeed Pride Fest Set; ‘Bad Detective’ And ‘A Rising Tide’ Deals; AIF Dates; More – Film Briefs (Deadline)

• Asian American and Pacific Islander Inclusion Doesn’t Just Mean More of The Rock (Variety)

• Samuel Goldwyn Films & Roadside Attractions Acquire North American Rights To Crime Thriller ‘Snakehead’ (Deadline)

• Chrissy Teigen Apologizes For Vicious Past Tweets: ‘There Is Simply No Excuse’ (HuffPost)

• The Chair: Everything you need to know about Sandra Oh's new Netflix series (Cosmopolitan)

• ‘Dad, I’m Sorry’ Crosses $1M At U.S. Box Office In Milestone For Vietnam-Produced Film (Deadline)

Music

• St. Lenox’s Songs From Indie Asian-America (Flood Magazine)

• 88rising’s ‘California’ eloquently depicts the Asian American experience (Pop Inquirer)

• South Korean Quartet's 'Super Silky Smooth' Rendition of 'All My Life' Impresses 'AGT' Judges (Yahoo! News)

Sports

• Four Cyclists Share What Anti-Asian Racism Looks Like in the Bike World (Bicycling)

• Why there are so few Asian Americans in major U.S. sports (Yahoo! Sports)

• Alibaba co-founder and Nets owner Joe Tsai says Asians are ‘scapegoated’ in times of turmoil in U.S. (CNBC)

Health / Science

• 85% of Filipino Americans reported Covid mental health issues, more than any Asian group (NBC News)

Culture

Culture / Lifestyle

• Vincent Chin's death in Michigan recalled amid spike in anti-Asian hate (Detroit Free Press)

• For those tracking anti-Asian American hate, the work brings trauma and healing in community (The Mercury News)

• Meet the Filipino American Civil Rights Icon Who Was Forgotten By History (Sporta Grind Entertainment)

• What does it mean to be Asian in America? We're listening (Kuow)

• 'I'm So Tired of Being Scared': Two Asian American Women Explain Why They Bought a Gun This Year (KQED)

Family

• Being a father is my favorite job, yet is more challenging now as a Filipino-American (Lansing State Journal)

• A Google VP’s Father’s Day letter to his Asian American kids: 5 lessons to learn when you’re older (CNBC)

• Congresswomen Lauren Underwood, Alma Adams, Pramila Jayapal and More on the Ways Their Fathers Shaped Them (Harper's Bazaar)

Food

• So you're white and own an Asian restaurant: Let's talk (San Francisco Chronicle)

• How Top Chef Star Melissa King Found Community & Confidence Through Cooking (The Zoe Report)

• The Pioneer: Emerald Chinese Restaurant's Susan Lew (San Diego Magazine)

• Food Tank’s 2021 Podcast List (FoodTank)

• How Korean Food Led to Self-Love and Then True Love (Stop Asian Hate)

Art / Literature

• The Asian American Arts Alliance Announces THE MEMORY OF WATER (Broadway World)

• KRISTIN LEONG’S #AZNXBLM PROJECT DRAWS TOGETHER BLACK AND ASIAN AMERICAN ARTISTS (South Seattle Emerald)

• What’s in a name? Asian American magazine fights to keep its identity (SF EXaminer)

Fashion

• The untold American fashion history you need to know (I-D)

• Inside New York City’s Chinatown, Where the Shirts Have No Name (Stop Asian Hate)

• Peter Do Announces His First New York Fashion Week Runway Show (Vogue)

Beauty

• How Our Fascination With Ethnic Ambiguity Affects Plastic Surgery Trends (Allure)

• Beauty standards don’t define me (The Daily Californian)

• Celebrating Beauty Beyond the Gender Binary (KQED)

• David Yi Wants to Redefine Masculinity and "Beauty Beyond the Binary" (Pop Sugar)

• Comfortable in My Own Skin (Stop Asian Hate)

Love

• Stop Fetishizing Asian Women (Stop Asian Hate)

• Poet Karina Hsieh Aims To Stop Asian Hate By Generating Love (Forbes)

• Margaret Cho talks polyamory, pansexuality and her parents' gay bookstore (Today)

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