Headlines

AAPI Headlines

• Asian Woman Fatally Shot a Week Before Her Birthday in Georgia (Yahoo! News)

• Asian Grandmother, 67, Allegedly Beaten Up During Violent Robbery in Boston (Next Shark)

• EXCLUSIVE: 89-year-old Asian woman robbed of priceless mementos while moving in Oakland (ABC 7 News)

Politics

• NYC mayoral candidates come out swinging in feisty TV debate ahead of Democratic primary (Daily News)

• Andrew Yang struggles to name favorite Jay-Z song on 'Ziwe' (CNN Politics)

• Are comments that Yang isn't a 'real New Yorker' racist? Experts weigh in (NBC News)

Business

• 100+ AAPI-owned businesses to support in 2021 (CNBC)

• Designer Vera Wang on starting her company at 40: ‘I thought maybe it’s just too late for me’ (NBC Make It)

• Young Chinese take a stand against pressures of modern life — by lying down (The Washington Post)

• Led by ex-Amazonians, Acquco raises $160M to buy and scale e-commerce businesses (Tech Crunch)

• Meet EASTERN PEOPLE, a New Clothing Collective for Asian Cultures (NextShark)

Entertainment

• Exploring Being Asian and Queer with Filmmaker Nick Neon (Chopso)

• Filipino Boy Stuns ‘America’s Got Talent’ Judges with Rendition of ‘All By Myself’ (Next Shark)

• Marvel's Newest Captain America Is a College-Age Filipino-American Woman (CBR)

• Simu Liu opens up about abrupt 'Kim's Convenience' cancelation (Rappler)

• America is not what we were told it was': Director Jon M. Chu on hope amid despair (NBC News)

• Kelly Marie Tran on championing diverse perspectives in Hollywood (Today)

• 'I didn't need to apologize for being Asian:' Since its start, YouTube allowed creators to celebrate Asian joy (Yahoo! News)

Music

• The Linda Lindas Perform ‘Racist, Sexist Boy,’ Discuss Song’s Origin on ‘Kimmel’ Read More: The Linda Lindas Play + Discuss 'Racist, Sexist Boy' on 'Kimmel' (The Loudwire)

• The Lookout: Asian American Advocacy Through Music and Special New Collaborations To Wrap Up APAHM (Character Media)

• Meet Patricia Chin, the Jamaican Woman Who Escaped Political Violence and Helped Bring Reggae to the World (Next Shark)

Sports

• Grand Slam leaders pledge to address Naomi Osaka's concerns (Axios)

• NBA's Treatment of Jeremy Lin Has Not Changed Since 2010 (Yahoo! Sports)

• Asian Americans voice support for Naomi Osaka (AsAmNews)

Health / Science

• Filipino American nurses, reflecting on disproportionate Covid toll, look ahead (NBC News)

Culture

Culture / Lifestyle

• Asian Americans: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (Youtube)

• The Cost of Being an ‘Interchangeable Asian’ (The New York Times)

• How the Asian American movement began at Berkeley, sparked creativity and unity (Berkeley News)

• New research shows reporting of anti-Asian hate helps victims cope with bias incidents (NBC News)

• 'Hit, hit, hit!': Sassy San Francisco rapping grannies dis Asian hate in new song (ABC 7 News)

• How can Black and Asian American communities build power? Unity. (Berkeley News)

Family

• 'I know the power that a young girl carries in her heart': Malala unveiled as new Vogue cover star (CNN STYLE)

• Like many Asian mothers, I’m learning to ‘untiger' myself (sbs)

Food

• Where Philly’s Chinatown Community Leaders Go to Eat (Eater Philly)

• 2 TikTok Food Bloggers on Why the Cultural Appropriation of Asian Food Is Personal (Popsugar.food)

• Authentic to me': 2 Asian American food entrepreneurs on mixing tradition and innovation (Yahoo! News)

Art / Literature

• Nha Trang's Whale Worship Festival, as Portrayed in This Stunning Graduation Project (Saigoneer)

• Rachel Heng on Societal Cruelty (The New Yorker)

• Jun Maeda's Debut Novel is a Queer Romance about Depression (Anime News Network)

Fashion

• Asian Designers Weigh in On the Fashion Industry’s Challenges (Sourcing Journal)

• Transgender celebrity Jin Xing becomes new face of Dior’s signature fragrance in China (Snyde)

• Albino teenager, 16, who was abandoned outside an orphanage in China as a baby because of the way she looked is a rising modelling star and has even featured in Vogue Italia (Mail Online)

Beauty

• This Photo Shoot Featuring Asian Women Is Stunningly Diverse (Huff Post)

• The Model Minority Myth Harms Us All (Elle)

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