How a rude encounter outside a Korean grocery store turned my life around (Today)
Weekly recap of Asian American news & newsmakers
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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)
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)
Health / Science
Study: Pandemic has generated physical, mental health challenges to Asians (MetroWest Daily News)
Culture
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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