How a rude encounter outside a Korean grocery store turned my life around (Today)

Weekly recap of Asian American news & newsmakers

Headlines

“‘I’m Shang-Chi, bitch’: Audience goes wild during Simu Liu’s monologue on ‘SNL’" - (SF Gate)

AAPI Headlines

• Pennsylvania teen had his hands up when fatally shot by State Police, new videos show (NBC News)

• Chinatown Gets $20 Million Grant To Revamp East Broadway Mall, Forsyth Plaza, And Kimlau Square (Gothamist)

• Anti-Asian Hate Is Still On The Rise, Almost 2 Years Into The Pandemic (HuffPost)

• AAPI activist and climate activist accuse each other of sexual assault (Yahoo)

Politics

• NPR slammed over story highlighting 'disappointment' over Boston electing Asian woman mayor (Fox News)

• Latino, Asian American, LGBTQ activists: They want to shape California's congressional maps (Yahoo)

• Kamala Harris: First woman to get US presidential powers (briefly) (BBC)

• Congressional gerrymandering by Texas Republicans cut out the heart of Houston’s Asian community (Texas Tribune)

• Gov. Murphy signs bill creating Asian American Pacific Islander Commission in NJ (NorthJersey)

Business

• Jensen Huang gets chip industry’s highest honor 28 years after founding Nvidia (VentureBeat)

• Black and Asian American Workers Falling Behind in Getting Back Jobs (The Good Men Project)

• Women of Color and the Wage Gap (American Progress)

• [Sponsored Link] Learn About Deducting Mortgage Interest From Your Taxes (Simplibanc)

Entertainment

• ‘I’m Shang-Chi, bitch’: Audience goes wild during Simu Liu’s monologue on ‘SNL’ (SF Gate)

• John Cho's New Frontier (GQ)

• John Cho is taking what’s his in Cowboy Bebop (Polygon)

• Simu Liu is appropriately pleasant on a blandly amusing Saturday Night Live (AV Club)

• Simu Liu and Bowen Yang jokingly vie for the most ‘First Asian’ titles on 'SNL' (NBC News)

• Series on Vincent Chin taps Chloé Zhao as executive producer (NBC News)

Music

• Twice Joins BTS, NCT 127 And SuperM With Their New Top 10 Album In America (Forbes)

• Lone superstar state: How Texas became America’s last great musical mecca (Independent)

• The 11 Best Music Books of 2021 (Pitchfork)

• Saweetie: I love my Filipino side! (Philstar Global)

• A New Generation of Filipino Hip-Hop Builds On a Deep Bay Area Legacy (KQED)

Sports

• Everyone Agrees: Shohei Ohtani Is the A.L.’s M.V.P. (NY Times)

• On Peng Shuai, and What Courage Looks Like (WSJ)

Health / Science

• Study: Pandemic has generated physical, mental health challenges to Asians (MetroWest Daily News)

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Culture

“How a rude encounter outside a Korean grocery store turned my life around” - (Today)

Culture / Lifestyle

• New Asian American Muppet prompts CPAC president to call for defunding PBS (NBC News)

• Mary Li Hsu ’80, who nurtured Asian American life at Yale, dies at 63 (Yale News)

• ‘Our culture, our people, and our pain are not a costume.’ Malden councilor criticized for costume mocking Asian women (Boston Globe)

• How a rude encounter outside a Korean grocery store turned my life around (Today)

• 'I saw myself in her': Asian cops in N.J. reflect on representation in PDs (Police1)

Family

• Adoptees express their fear, anger and insight on race during social unrest (NPR)

• Burglary ring targets up to 20 Asian American homes across CNY; 3 arrested, 1 wanted (Syracuse)

• In Netflix doc ‘Found,’ adopted teens discover family, roots with help from DNA testing (NBC News)

Food

• Learning to love Thanksgiving — and turkey — as an Asian American chef (Today)

• Video of ‘scallion pancakes’ served on ‘Asian food night’ at American college goes viral (NextShark)

• Step Inside Manhattan Chinatown’s Newest Food Court (NY Eater)

• We Order Chinese Food On Thanksgiving – It’s Our Family Tradition (Scary Mommy)

• Filipino cuisine isn’t as well-known as other Asian foods — but that’s changing (CNBC)

Fashion

• 9 WISHLIST-WORTHY GIFTS BY AAPI-OWNED BRANDS (Fashionista)

• Our favourite looks from the 2021 American Music Awards (AMAs) (Lifestyle Asia)

Beauty

• EXCLUSIVE: I see Alia Bhatt's work and I say wow: Manisha Koirala opens up (PinkVilla)

• "Feminist AF" author on hip-hop and feminism today: "We're not playing nice anymore" (Salon)

• My experience with diversity, inclusion in Greek life as a person of color (DailyCal)

Art / Literature

• Author Karen Tei Yamashita wins lifetime literary achievement award (NBC News)

• A complicated love story: Author Carlos Bulosan’s critique of America gave Filipino migrants a voice (Yahoo)

Love

• The Star Of Mindy Kaling’s New Show Is Here To Make Us Embrace Our Horniness (Refinery 29)

• ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ Star Amrit Kaur Talks Friendship & Sex-Positive South Asian Leads (Brown Girl Magazine)

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