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· Celine Pun
Growing up as a low-income, first-generation Asian American, I was motivated by my immigrant parents’ food insecurity to fight for our planet. I was born into an American culture of honoring consumption. I was never shy, taking extra servings of catering food home from school…
· Bryan Ke
American YouTuber Sonny Side, whose real name is Will Sonbuchner, recently went to Singapore’s Chinatown Complex to try local hawker dishes, including pig’s trotter and fallopian tubes. The 38-year-old food vlogger uploaded a video on June 11 titled “Exotic Asian Meats!!…
· Ryan General
On Nov. 2, 2021, Isaiah Jordan started mocking three middle-aged Asian men outside a restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, before punching one of them in the face and then pulling out a knife and a pepper spray canister. Surveillance video released by the New York City Police…
· Carl Samson
Footwear brand Johnston & Murphy is in hot water after several Instagram users exposed racist, anti-Asian comments and messages they received from its verified account this week. The firestorm appears to have started after Pughaus founder Jason Wong received comments from the…
· Maina Chen
The New York City Police Department is searching for a woman who pepper-sprayed four Asian women in the Meatpacking District on Saturday. The Asian women, who chose to remain anonymous, told NextShark that the attacker hurled racial insults and then charged at them with the…
· Rebecca Moon
A Reddit user posted to the subreddit r/AmItheAssh*le on Monday, where she alleged that her daughter was ostracized by her homeroom teacher during lunch for her “foreign” food. The homeroom teacher purportedly forced the Reddit user’s 6-year-old daughter to sit alone in a room…
· Editorial Staff
Seafood restaurant King Cajun Crawfish took to social media to expose a woman who hurled racist abuse at its Asian staff on Monday afternoon. The woman’s tirade allegedly started after she finished her meal and demanded a refund, claiming the shrimp were spoiled. In a cell phone…
· Rebecca Moon
Disney Pixar’s film “Lightyear” has been banned in 14 Middle Eastern and Asian countries due to the depiction of a same-sex couple who share a kiss. Children under the age of 16 will be unable to watch the film in Singapore where Infocomm Media Development Authority gave the…
· Ryan General
President Joe Biden officially signed the “Commission To Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act” into law on Monday. “It's about time for a national museum to capture the courage, the character, the imagination and…
· Michelle De Pacina
A Filipino family was threatened and physically attacked at a fast food drive-thru in North Hollywood, California, on May 13. Nerissa Roque and her daughter, Patricia, were pulling up to a drive-thru when a Jeep allegedly bumped the back of their car. The driver, who told them…
· Grace Kim
Netflix announced the cast for the upcoming series “The Brothers Sun” on Monday. Michelle Yeoh has been set to lead as Mama Sun, along with Justin Chien as Charles Sun, Sam Song Li as Bruce Sun, Highdee Kuan as Alexis and Joon Lee as TK. The eight-episode series is described as…
· Rebecca Moon
A TikToker user shared a video on June 4 of two Asian women pulling the outer green leaves off of several heads of iceberg lettuce in the produce section of Coles. While one woman pulls off the leaves, the other woman places them into bags. Some internet users defended the…
· Michelle De Pacina
Cecilia Shu, a 68-year-old grandmother, was walking on a sidewalk in Oceanside, California, when a black Honda SUV drove onto the sidewalk and struck her on June 5. The driver then made a U-turn and drove away. Paramedics pronounced Shu dead at the scene. Authorities are still…
· Carl Samson
An elderly Asian couple was reportedly bound, gagged and pistol-whipped during a home-invasion robbery in San Jose, California, on May 31. The suspects found the victims’ ATM card and forced them to call a translator after struggling to retrieve a PIN, according to reports.…
· Bryan Ke
Fencing star Edgar Cheung Ka-long won Hong Kong’s second gold medal at the Asian Fencing Championships in Seoul on Sunday, beating China’s Mo Ziwei 15-6 in the grand finals of the men's individual foil event. “I fenced quite well and am satisfied with my performance,” Cheung…
· William Yuk
If American Chinese food isn’t authentically Asian then neither am I Growing up with the privilege of nightly access to fresh, homemade Chinese food, I have always taken its Americanized cousin for granted. At best, American Chinese food was a guilty pleasure. At worst, it was…
· Carl Samson
Kansas-based journalist Megan Murphy, who went by Megan Dillard on air, has reportedly filed a discrimination suit against Nexstar, the parent company of her previous employer Fox 4. Murphy alleged that Fox 4 news director Sean McNamara refused to consider her for promotion…
· Grace Kim
“Ms. Marvel,” the new Disney Plus series featuring the MCU’s first-ever Muslim superhero, was subjected to review bombing on IMDb. The series was flooded with negative reviews, resulting in an overall rating of 6.5 out of 10 shortly after its premiere yesterday. Critics suggest…
· Michelle De Pacina
An assembly of Asian and white parents filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Boston Public Schools in hopes of having at least five of their children admitted to the elite exam schools. Their children failed to secure seats due to a lack of admittance allotted to their ZIP codes…
· Jane Nam
In an interview on the “Zach Sang Show” about his most recent album, “There and Back Again,” popstar Eric Nam shared his thoughts on identity, love and aging. Most of the songs on his new album appear to be about heartbreak, including the hits “I Don’t Know You Anymore” and…
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