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

Headlines

Squid Game Makes SAG Awards History as First Non-English-Language TV Series to Win Acting Prizes - (People)

Notable AAPI Headlines

• 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)

• 10 of the best films to watch this March (BBC)

• LA Art Box offers Filipino Americans a gallery of their own (Rappler)

• 10 Sitcoms That Actually Got Better With More Seasons (CBR)

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)