Squid Game Makes SAG Awards History as First Non-English-Language TV Series to Win Acting Prizes (People)
Monday (Feb. 28) review of Asian American news & newsmakers
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Squid Game Makes SAG Awards History as First Non-English-Language TV Series to Win Acting Prizes (People)
Asian-American Dancer Attacked En Route To Off Broadway Theater In Apparent Hate Crime (Deadline)
Judge Strikes Down Elite Virginia High School’s Admissions Rules (NY Times)
Shootings at 2 Asian-owned businesses in Albuquerque leave community 'terrified' (NBC News)
Man who stabbed Asian-American family at Midland Sam’s Club pleads guilty (KXAN)
New FIT Museum Exhibit to Celebrate Asian Americans’ Contribution to New York’s Fashion Industry (WWD)
Entertainment
‘Squid Game’ Nearly Sweeps at the 2022 SAG Awards — and Still Makes History (US Mag)
The NAACP Image Awards: How Will Awkwafina’s Controversial Nomination Play Out? (Forbes)
Whatever happened to Short Round? Ke Huy Quan returns to the big screen (EW)
Seattle Asian American Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary (Seattle Times)
Cultural faux pas in Netflix show draws ire from Japanese people in Canada and beyond (CBC)
LA Art Box offers Filipino Americans a gallery of their own (Rappler)
Culture / Lifestyle
The nightmare that haunts me and other Asian American women (CNN)
How Asian American lawmakers want to address ongoing violence and poverty (City and State)
MN Asian American Coalition Builds on Policy, Including Anti-Hate (Public News Service)
Our Hmong Neighbors: Pa Lee shares path to Manitowoc's Hmong American Day proclamation (Herald Times Reporter)
Op-Ed: Deep racial inequality persists in the U.S. — but many Americans don’t want to believe it (LA Times)
Anti-racism betrays Asian students (UnHerd)
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