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Weekly recap of Asian American news & newsmakers

JD
Nov 23, 2021
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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)

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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)


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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