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· Carl Samson
The casting of White actress Evan Rachel Wood in a new movie on post-war Hiroshima has sparked ire among Asian Americans on social media. Wood, who currently stars as Dolores Abernathy in HBO’s “Westworld,” will play the role of Eleanor Coerr in “One Thousand Paper Cranes,” a…
· Ryan General
Asian stars shone among the brightest celebs who walked the red carpet at this year’s Met Gala. Considered as one of the world’s biggest fashion events, the annual Gala is held in New York every first Monday of May to celebrate the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s…
· Editorial Staff
A White professor at Cornell University has come under fire after ranking Southeast Asian cuisines with Filipino dishes at the bottom. However, Tom Pepinsky — who teaches comparative politics, political economy and Southeast Asian politics — received some level of support,…
· Ryan General
Last week, a group of Liverpool fans earned widespread condemnation on social media for pushing an Asian man into a fountain in Barcelona, Spain and continuing to mock him after the attack. One of the men involved has since been outed and shamed by his fellow football fans,…
· Carl Samson
The Asian man who doused far-right activist Tommy Robinson with a milkshake has started to receive death threats following the incident in England on Thursday. The scene, which was caught in a now-viral video, saw 23-year-old Danyal Mahmud shower English Defence League (EDL)…
· Benny Luo
Growing up as a Chinese-American, finding role models who looked like me on the big screen was always difficult. I saw many movies with all-Asian casts, but they were all Asian, not Asian American. There were movies with Asian leads like “The Replacement Killers” with Chow…
· Carl Samson
A video of a group of men harassing what appears to be a family of Asian tourists wearing “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hats has made rounds on social media this week. A Twitter user going by the moniker “Bigalow Black” (@3ohBlack) reportedly posted the video on April 30,…
· Carl Samson
British far-right, anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson was doused in what is believed to be two different flavors of milkshake for two days in a row as he hit the streets to campaign for the European elections. Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has a large…
· Andrew Yang
Editor’s Note: Andrew Yang has announced his presidential bid for 2020. The views expressed in this piece are solely his own. When Benny, the founder and CEO of NextShark, reached out to me and asked me to write a piece for him on why I’m running for President, I was excited for…
· Editorial Staff
It’s almost impossible to find Asian couple representation in the media besides in rare films like “Crazy Rich Asians”, so we asked our fans to share with us their most wholesome stories of how Asian couples met and you definitely did not disappoint. Here are 15 couples and…
· Editorial Staff
Riot police were called in to Barcelona’s Placa Reial after drunken Liverpool fans assaulted several people in the area, with some requiring medical attention, after a Champions League match on Wednesday night. One particular incident of Liverpool fans assaulting an elderly…
· Ziye Wang
The rise of Son Heung-min in 2018-2019 has been nothing short of scintillating. A goal-scoring machine with wicked pace and a deft touch, the South Korean winger has soared above expectations for Tottenham Hotspur this season. He’s led his injury-ravaged side to both a third…
· Jin Hyun
A 27-year-old Toronto-based freelance writer, Roslyn Talusan, was bombarded by racist and transphobic messages and tweets from countless Ariana Grande fans after openly criticizing the singer on Twitter. The aggressive messages and death threats began flowing in over a period of…
· Editorial Staff
Maybe you’ve started seeing a seemingly sweet ABB (Asian baby boy) and have started to notice a few red flags here and there, or maybe you’ve been ignoring these red flags from the very beginning (tsk tsk)– either way, ABBs and Asian fu*kboys display very distinct behaviors that…
· Jin Hyun
It’s a tale as old as time — girl meets boy, girl ignores all the red flags, girl ends up being played by the classic Asian fuckboy — and honestly, it happens to the best of us. To these boys, ghosting, benching and cheating just come so naturally, it’s a talent, really. And as…
· Ryan General
The Arizona Cardinals made history on Thursday by selecting Kyler Murray as their first pick in the National Football League draft. Born to an African American father, Kevin Murray, and mother of Korean American descent, Missy Murray, in Bedford, Texas, the 21-year-old…
· Ryan General
After generating quite a buzz in college football, draft prospect Taylor Rapp is set to become the second Asian American in the NFL this year. Before he makes his pro-football debut, the 21-year-old Washington Huskies safety received an uplifting message from two-time Super Bowl…
· Carl Samson
In the latest win for representation, Netflix has announced production of a new teen romance comedy with a Chinese American director and lead actor. The movie, titled “The Half of It,” is writer-director Alice Wu’s follow-up to her feature film “Saving Face,” which was released…
· Ryan General
A new show about racial segregation in British schools has exposed some problematic views by select groups of students towards others of different race and gender. Labeled a “radical experiment,” the Channel 4 show “Great British School Swap” swaps the pupils from schools…
· Brittany Du Bois
Editor’s Note: The following piece was chosen as a finalist in NextShark’s personal Essay Contest 2019. The views expressed in the story are the writer’s own. I am Asian.
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