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

weekly recap of Asian American news & newsmakers

JD
Jun 8, 2021
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Headlines

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

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

“Asian Americans: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver“ - (HBO)

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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