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· Ryan General
A popular beauty blogger has lost a lot of her fans and her biggest sponsors after her old racist and fat-shaming tweets recently resurfaced online. YouTuber Laura Lee was found to have tweeted several offensive things, including discriminatory posts against several groups of…
· Bryan Ke
A Twitter user has come under fire for doing a racist voiceover on a viral World Taekwondo Festival performance by mockingly imitating an Asian accent and using the “N” word at the end. i knew this video was missing something pic.twitter.com/FC9sRo9MZb
· Ryan General
Netflix’s “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before,” which stars Vietnamese American actress Lana Condor, has earned some criticisms for not including any Asian boys. Based on author Jenny Han’s 2014 novel of the same name, the teen rom-com features three sisters being raised alone by…
· Ryan General
Following a successful debut, “Crazy Rich Asians” continues its impressive box office performance, adding another $25 million to its total earnings in its second weekend in theaters. Based on studio estimates Sunday, almost as many people watched the film over the weekend as…
· Ryan General
For about a week now, Indonesia has been doing a magnificent job hosting the Asian Games, the continent’s biggest sporting event held every four years. The event, considered the world’s second largest sporting event only after to the Olympics, marked the first time North and…
· Carl Samson
“Crazy Rich Asians” will not be the same without the soulful voice that owned its opening and closing credits. That voice belongs to 22-year-old Cheryl Koh, who snagged a role in the box office hit after a winning audition on YouTube.
· Bryan Ke
The latest episode of ABC’s “What Would You Do?” shows how people at a diner react after overhearing a young Asian-American man come out as gay to his Chinese parents. The family, who are all actors, was having a regular meal at a busy restaurant when Daniel reveals that he is…
· Carl Samson
San Francisco Giants pitcher Derek Holland has landed in hot water after making offensive jokes at an Asian staffer during an interview on Wednesday. Speaking to Chris Rose and Kevin Millar of MLB Network’s “Intentional Talk,” Holland introduced Haro Ogawa, his team’s massage…
· Khier Casino
A man riding the Caltrain in the Bay Area on Tuesday was caught on video yelling racist remarks at a conductor who appeared to be Asian American after he was told to get off the train for refusing to show his ticket. Another commuter who recorded the incident and posted the…
· Ryan General
Following a stellar box office opening weekend, “Crazy Rich Asians” leading actor Henry Golding and director Jon M. Chu are paying it forward to another Asian-led film by buying out a theater to promote the release of “Searching.” What was she hiding? #SearchingMovie only in…
· Ryan General
Just a few years before the late film critic Roger Ebert lost his voice to cancer, he was heard yelling inside a theater to defend an Asian-American film called “Better Luck Tomorrow.” The 2002 crime-drama film, which was the solo-directorial debut of “Fast & Furious” franchise…
· Carl Samson
“Crazy Rich Asians” author Kevin Kwan is wanted in his native Singapore for allegedly defaulting on the state’s mandatory military service. In a statement on Wednesday, Singapore’s Ministry of Defence said that Kwan avoided national service, stayed overseas without the required…
· Bryan Ke
Chufue Yang, a Chicago-based model and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, is speaking out against discrimination in the industry after being dropped by his former agency Ford Models. Yang explains in a lengthy Instagram post how the agency deliberately changed his height on his…
· Bryan Ke
Four Japanese basketball players embroiled in a prostitution scandal while participating in the Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia have been booted after violating the national team’s code. Yuya Nagayoshi, 27, Takuya Hashimoto, 23, Takuma Sato, 23, and Keita Imamura, 22, were…
· Bryan Ke
A Vietnamese-American mother is winning the hearts of many people including actress Constance Wu after a “Crazy Rich Asians”-inspired dress she made for her daughter went viral online. Ha Truong, a Kansas-born daughter of Vietnamese refugees and wife of a Thai immigrant, was…
· Ryan General
Following the initial success of “Crazy Rich Asians” both in the box office and critical acclaim, Warner Bros. has reportedly started developing the film’s sequel. According to Deadline, screenwriters Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim are set to return to write the script soon.…
· Khier Casino
Footage from a coffee shop in California shows a White man berating an Asian couple before loudly comparing a woman to actress Sandra Oh. The man who uploaded the video to YouTube, who wishes to keep his identity hidden, told NextShark that he was with his girlfriend at…
· Khier Casino
A man in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is being accused of racism after verbally harassing an elderly female employee while ordering takeout at a Chinese restaurant. Len Martin, who resides in Los Angeles according to his Facebook page, recorded his exchange with an employee at a Chuck…
· Ryan General
China’s “Queen of Rap” made her international debut after being one of the featured artists in the “Crazy Rich Asians” soundtrack. Rapper Mao Yanqi, popularly known as Vava, has already made a name for herself in China after joining a couple of local reality shows and releasing…
· Ranier Maningding
Editor’s Note: Ranier Maningding is a copywriter and mastermind behind the social justice page “The Love Life of an Asian Guy.” The opinions expressed in this piece are solely his own. If you told me 10 years ago that a movie called “Crazy Rich Asians” would star a handsome…
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